Nearly $900,000 has been awarded by federal government to help fund several innovative research projects at the University of British Columbia.
The funding is part of the CFI’s John R. Evans Leadership Fund, designed to help institutions attract and retain the very best of today’s and tomorrow’s researchers.
The funding, totaling $877,005, will be split between eight projects, with research areas ranging from respiratory system diseases to advanced materials.
UBC funding was part of a national announcement of $30 million in research infrastructure in support of projects at 33 institutions across the country, announced July 29th by Ed Fast, Minister of State for Science and Technology, at the University of Moncton in New Brunswick.
The UBC Recipients are:
Jeremy Hirota: A Translational Research Platform to Study Occupational and Environmental Respiratory Disease
Andrew Mark Jellinek: Center for Geophysical Mixing in the Earth System
Xiaonan Lu: Single Cell-Level Platform for Detection and Characterization of Foodborne Pathogens
Philip Matthews: Facility for the study of insect respiratory adaptation
Darko Odic: Building the Center for Cognitive Development
Abbas Sadeghzadeh Milani: Facility for Uncertainty-based Design, Manufacture and Characterization of Advanced Composites under Impact Applications
Ian Foulds: High-Throughput Microfluidics
Tillie-Louise Hackett: Molecular determinants of obstructive lung disease