Boost in CFI funding and UBC JELF recipients announced

March 13, 2019

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.

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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

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We acknowledge that UBC’s two main campuses are situated within the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.

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