An investment of more than $61 million was annoucned for state-of-the-art research labs and equipment through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF). This investment will support 261 projects at 40 universities across Canada.
(August 12, 2019)
A total of 31 projects at UBC were awarded combined funding of $6.0m
UBC Projects
- Memory Deconstruction Facility $125,000
- Harnessing High Value Chemicals from Plants in Plant Bioactive Compounds Research (BioCoRe) Laboratory $159,999
- Infrastructure for Advanced Transient Optical Spectroscopy and Microscopy of Photocatalysts $160,000
- Global Metabolomics Laboratory at UBC $215,000
- The CLean Energy hArvesting using Nanotechnology (CLEAN) Laboratory $125,000
- The Genomic Basis of Sex Differences $471,228
- Invertebrate Cryobiology and Ecophysiology Laboratory $125,000
- Laboratory for MacroSystems Biology $200,000
- Synapses, Circuits and Behaviour Phenotyping Platform: Targeting Pathogenic Mechanisms in Neurodegenerative Disease $75,001
- Fibrosis as a Progenitor Disease: Novel Therapeutic Opportunities $343,424
- Prevention of Severe Bacterial Infections in Children by Optimizing Protection Through Vaccination $125,000
- PRISM: Programmable Interface for Simulation/Statistical Models $93,232
- Ultra-low Temperature Facility for Quantum Simulators and Quantum Computers in Silicon $125,000
- Comparative and Functional Cardiac Imaging Laboratory $125,000
- Profiling, Imaging, and Mechanistic (PRIME) Characterizations of Transcription Factors to Improve Seed Traits $220,000
- Multicellular Cell Division Imaging and Manipulation Laboratory $175,000
- Characterizing the Structure and Mechanism of Microbial Systems $124,410
- Integrated Microbiota Analyses Platform (iMAP) $240,000
- Extension of the Translational Integrative Physiology Labortaory $225,000
- Microwave Circuits and Systems for Sensing and Characterization $122,730
- Next Generation Biodiversity Monitoring $84,000
- Laboratory Infrastructure: the Anxiety Stress and Autism Program (ASAP) $124,582
- The Collaborative and Experimental Ethnography Lab (CE2 Lab) $124,072
- High-throughput System for Single Neuron Mesoscale Functional Connectivity in Mouse Models of Human Disease in Vivo $384,800
- The Molecular Path: Connecting Biologic Insights to Improve Cancer Outcomes $800,000
- The Biomedical Microbiome Research Laboratory: Investigating the Interrelations of Gut Microbiome with Dyslipidemia $125,000
- Emotional Autobiographical Memory in PTSD $95,076
- Advanced Organic Characterization for Optimization of Drinking Water Treatment $124,504
- Transcriptional Memory and Plasticity in Embryonic Stem Cells $259,570
- Cardiac Arrhythmias: From Mechanism to Structure-based Diagnosis $288,306
- SSHRC Partnership Grant Scaling up Interventions with Women Affected by Violence $40,000 (funding for research infrastructure associated with SSHRC research support)