Canadian children are currently not meeting the daily amount of physical activity recommended to reduce their risk for negative health outcomes. The RA Centre in Ottawa, Ontario has the resources to offer various sport opportunities to children and recognizes the need to develop programs that are developmentally appropriate and accessible for children with lower physical […]

Noblegen Inc. is an advanced bioproducts manufacturer dedicated to developing cost-effective, naturally-derived biomaterials and biochemicals for a wide range of consumer and industry sectors. We employ a unique organism, algae, to continue to do what it does naturally – decontaminate wastewater sustainably and affordably while also generating valuable biomass for use in biomaterials and biochemicals […]

Lung cancer has a poor prognosis and a high incidence in low resource settings. Early detection of malignant nodules can enable prompt intervention and improve treatment outcomes. Despite the recognized benefits of early nodule detection, it is clinically and computational challenging. Convolutional neural network (CNN) is a type of machine learning that has been applied […]

Intravertebral disc degeneration is a common debilitating condition for which there is no cure and leads to back pain and disability. In order to provide sustained pain relief, research is investigating the use of local cell transplantation into the disc. However, many current cell delivery strategies suffer from low cell retention and survival following injection […]

Organisms have enormous amounts of instructions encoded in their DNA. When DNA sequences are found using sequencing methods, such as New Generation Sequencing, they are stored as very large datasets. Merely knowing the sequence of an organism’s DNA is not enough, however, and there needs to be further processing of the datasets to extract meaningful […]

The August 2014 tailings dam breach at the Mount Polley Mine, BC severely disturbed downstream forest ecosystems through erosion and tailings deposition. The impacted area presents an opportunity to research using ecosystem legacies (components that survive a disturbance) to rehabilitate disturbed sites. A field trial at Mount Polley is testing seedling establishment and soil food […]

The Earth’s richest freshwater fish fauna is found in the Brazilian Amazon basin. This resource represents the primary protein source for the “ribeirinhos”: the populations of native Brazilian fisherman living in the upper Amazon. The black waters of the Amazon River are poor in nutrient, ion, oxygen and are acidified by humic acids from surrounding […]

Placental dysfunction is the leading cause of stillbirth, and assessment of fetoplacental health in utero is limited. Our goal is to use MRI to gain functional information of the placenta, specifically to measure pH as a critical indicator of placental health. Current methods of this use 13P MRS but are challenged by low signal-to-noise ratio […]

Increase in global temperatures, over dependence and depletion of fossil fuels to fulfill the human needs have forced the mankind to produce sustainable bioenergy. Plant biomass which contains lignocellulose polymers constitutes the most abundant components on the earth’s surface. Naturally, enormous amounts of cellulose are digested by the cattle and this process of digestion is […]

Through play children develop sensory, motor, cognitive, communication and social skills. Children with physical disabilities, who have a limited access to play, may experience negative impacts on these aspects of development. Using robots to manipulate play objects can contribute to the children’s independence, social and cognitive development. The interface with which the children control the […]

Understanding how many animals live in a given area, and how those animals move from one place to another, is centrally important for properly conserving and managing landscapes. This project aims to study grizzly bear populations in the Great Bear Rainforest of British Columbia, BC. It will use DNA data collectively non-invasively from grizzly bears […]

Castration-resistant prostate cancer is a late stage disease and many people die of it due to lack of effective therapeutic drugs. In the current project, we propose to develop new therapeutic drug a to specifically target CRPC’s common weak points, which are MCT4 and eIF4E gene’s proteint products that play very important roles in regulation […]