UBC Researchers Awarded $4m in latest round of CFI Funding

Fifteen UBC projects were awarded a total of $3.9m in the latest round of CFI funding through the John R. Evans Leaders Fund.

UBC Projects

Tool for Multimodal Measurements of Quantum Materials: Scanning Probe Microscopy and Angle Resolved Photoemission

$800,000

Sarah Burke

 

High Performance Additive Manufacturing

$171,605

Steven Cockcroft

 

Exercise and Depression: Moving from Efficacy to Effectiveness

$63,381

Guy Faulkner

 

Building Infrastructure for Spatial Archaeometry and Visualization

$74,161

Kevin Fisher

 

Breeding for Disease Resistance in Honey Bees

$500,000

Leonard Foster

 

Methane Biogeochemistry Facility

$231,600

Edward Hornibrook

 

Tools for Surface Analysis and Characterization

$135,000

Zachary Hudson

 

Laboratory Infrastructure: The Depression and Stress Lab

$124,637

Joelle LeMoult

 

Release Behavior of Metallic and Non-metallic Elements from Rock Piles

$125,000

Wenying Liu

 

Antibacterial Discovery on the Bacterial Membrane Facilitated by in vitro and in situ Cryo Electron Microscopy Methods

$770,000

Natalie Strynadka

 

Egg Farmers of Canada Industrial Research Chair in Sustainability

$125,000

Nathaniel Pelletier

 

Atomic Layer Deposition Facility for Energy Materials and Devices

$125,000

Jian Liu

 

The Centre for Obesity and Well-being Research Excellence (The CORE)

$123,567

Lesley Lutes

 

A Flexible and Scalable Platform for Actionable Genomics

$400,771

Corey Nislow

 

Laboratory for Experimental X-ray Imaging (LEXI)

$136,352

Jesse Tanguay