From medicine to music 鈥� 黑料不打烊 receives research boost
Fifteen new 黑料不打烊 professors learned today they were successful in securing funding for their research 鈥� their applications received the nod from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). This represents a success rate in the CFI's New Opportunities program of 88 percent. Research projects will study everything from voice recognition to biodiversity to plankton and the nutrition of chickens.
"We are obviously very happy with these results," said Jacques Hurtubise, Interim Vice-Principal (Research). "With almost $7 million awarded, this has been a great year for 黑料不打烊 in terms of the New Opportunities program. We are supporting the next generation of world-renowned scientists. This funding is a welcome contribution to this effort 鈥� and a tribute to the excellence of our young researchers."
Of the funded projects (complete list below) five are from the Faculty of Science, two from Medicine, two from Engineering, two from Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, two from Dentistry, one from Music and one from Education.
Kinesiology professor Julie C么t茅 is one of the new 黑料不打烊 researchers to receive New Opportunities funding. She will study how people coordinate repetitive movements of their arms. She will apply these findings to injury prevention in the workplace. Typical examples of repetitive movement injuries include carpal tunnel syndrome and injuries of the shoulder.
Dentistry professor Simon Tran also received a New Opportunities grant. He plans to study the use of stem cells for tooth or salivary gland regeneration. This research may lead to clinically useful therapies for individuals with Sjogren's syndrome (loss of saliva glands) or who receive radiation therapy to the head and neck.
"The aim is to offer these patients effective treatment through the regeneration or implantation of artificial glands using stem cells that are drawn from their own tissues," Tran said.
The CFI New Opportunities program is a federal initiative with funding matched by Recherche Qu茅bec. Professors must apply within 18 months of their first appointment at an eligible Canadian university. Research projects are assessed based on the quality of research and need for infrastructure, the contribution to strengthening the capacity for innovation, and the potential benefits to Canada.
New Opportunity CFI grants 鈥� 黑料不打烊 University, October 2004
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| Principal Investigator | Grant Title | Faculty |
| Abhari, Ramesh | Infrastructure for the measurement of high-speed interconnects, microwave electronic circuit components and packaging effects | Engineering |
| Blanchette, Mathieu | Computing infrastructure for the analysis of non-coding functional regions of the human genome | Science |
| Cote, Julie | Work-work-work: Infrastructure to characterize the biomechanics of repetitive motion disorders | Education |
| Fussman, Gregor | Infrastructure to explore the interplay of ecological and evolutionary dynamics in plankton communities | Science |
| Gervais, Guillaume | Resistively detected NMR in low-dimensional nanostructured systems: A tool to study fundamental quantum phenomena, and application to spintronics | Science |
| Humphries, Murray | Bench to bush infrastructure for wildlife bioenergetics research with application to human obesity, biodiversity and climate change | Agricultural and Environmental Sciences |
| Komarova, Svetlana | From transcription factors to cell function: Novel insights into the regulation of bone resorption by osteoclasts | Dentistry |
| Li, Hung-Wen | Single-molecule visualization and imaging facility for mechanistic study of DNA repair enzymes with nanometer precision | Science |
| Rose, Richard | An integrated computing platform for enabling innovation in signal processing and scientific computing | Engineering |
| Ruiz-Feria, Ciro | Transdisciplinary research in poultry science: Nutrition, environment and health | Agricultural and Environmental Sciences |
| Scavone, Gary | Measurement and development tools for computational acoustic modeling of music instruments and sounding objects | Music |
| Tran, Simon D. | Infrastructure for laboratory of craniofacial stem cells and tissue engineering | Dentistry |
| Vachon, Brigitte | Integrated high performance computing and audio/video conferencing facility for high energy physics research | Science |
| Verhaegen, Frank | Advanced radiotherapy by combined novel three-dimensional ultrasound techniques and Monte Carlo dose calculation | Medicine |
| Vigano, Antonio | Laboratory for correlative and interdisciplinary research in cancer nutrition and rehabilitation | Medicine |
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