UBC researchers receive more than $1.4m in funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation's (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF).
The JELF awards were announced by the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport, as part of a larger announcement of a boost in funding for the CFI of $763 million over the next five years and $462 million per year starting in 2023-24.
UBC JELF Funding Recipients
(June and November 2018 rounds)
- Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad
Building Infrastructure for Deep Learning of Natural Language - Carrillo, Juli
Plant Behaviour and Insect Interaction Lab - Frostad, John
- Laboratory for Micromechanical Characterization of Multiphase Fluids
- Kheirkhah, Sina
Next Generation of Gas Turbines: Technology Development for Fuel Burning Rate Enhancement and Thermoacoustics Mitigation - Pratap Singh, Anubhav
Advanced Non-Thermal Food Processing (ANT-FP) Research Facility - Skoretz, Stacey
A Cross-systems Investigation of Swallowing Following Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation - Ghoreishi Madiseh, Seyed Ali
Development of a Novel Geothermal Mine Ventilation System - Golovin, Kevin
The Okanagan Anti-Icing Research Laboratory - Hunt, Brian
Plankton Food-webs Laboratory (PFL) - Karakochuk, Crystal
The Nutritional Hematology (NUTRI-HEME) Laboratory - Sin, Nancy
UPLIFT Health Lab - Weijs, Steven
A Flexible Wireless Sensor-actuator Network for Real Time Hydrological Experimental Design