This project will be focused on helping us advance our company creation efforts and will help us design a strategy for targeting and prioritizing areas of research, geographies and expertise in life sciences across Canada.

Aerospace industry innovations targets reduction of fuel consumption and noise emission. Electrical power-bywire enabled technology address these challenges yielding lighter designs, increased operation flexibility and cost reduction. With electric motors having variable rotational speed, constraints in design and optimization strategies for rotor and propellers can be released. ln addition to conventional aircraft and rotorcraft, new […]

Short-term electric load forecasting for local areas is of interest to Hydro-Québec to efficiently respond to demand at the distribution level. Any significant forecasting error can result in reliability issues, loss of opportunity, or additional costs to the business. Improving short-term load forecasting can benefit both consumers and utility companies to optimize resources and costs. […]

As part of the transition plan to low-carbon economy, the province of Quebec (QC) has become one of the 20+ regions and cities worldwide to announce a plan to electrify transportation which centers around setting up a ’complete electric battery ecosystem’ by 2050. While this plan poses a new phase of land appropriation and environmental […]

To prevent diseases such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Ebola virus disease vaccines are the most effective tool. For this, the promising viral vector recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus (rVSV) is applied as production platform. Using suspension HEK293 cells, rVSV-based vectors are currently only produced in batch mode. However, the establishment of perfusion cultivations at […]

Often fractures don’t heal properly or large defects must be repaired in the bone due to accidents or disease. The drugs and treatments that are currently used to repair fractures are only partially effective. Mesentech Inc has developed a new drug that has shown a strong effect on bone formation in rats. In this project, […]

Magnetometers have been used for decades for exploration in mining, navigation and defence and security. However, high accuracy sensors often provide only the amplitude of magnetic fields, severely limiting the extent of magnetic interpretations. A novel type of quantum magnetometers based on Nitrogen Vacancy centers in diamond promise enhanced sensitivity and accuracy, while providing the […]

Food freshness is an essential consideration for food quality control and consumer acceptance, especially for fish and related products which are highly perishable due to their special biological and physicochemical characteristics. Conventional methods to detect fish spoilage are generally not suitable for on-site application due to the complexity of procedures and high testing requirements. Thus, […]

Hybrid organic–inorganic halide perovskites nanocrystals (HPNCs), such as CH3NH3PbX3 (X = Cl, Br, I), have recently experienced extraordinary development in optoelectronic applications due to their promising optical and electrical properties. Although most investigations have been mainly focused on improving and optimizing photovoltaics, light-emitting diodes, and photodetectors efficiencies of HPNCs, there is great interest and potential […]

Le projet de recherche s’inscrit dans le contexte précis du besoin d’Hydro-Québec de mieux estimer la probabilité de manifestation de vents de forces dites extrêmes et potentiellement dommageables pour le réseau d’infrastructures électriques. Il aura pour objectif de développer des modèles statistiques permettant de corriger les biais dans les prévisions de vents afin de mieux […]

Demand for biomanufacturing capacity has grown to unexpected levels during the current pandemic and the global vaccine supply shortage. Academic programs provide workers with the necessary background qualifications for employment; however, they are unable to meet the job role-specific requirements for cleanroom-based biomanufacturing under current good manufacturing practices (GMP) necessary for production for patients. This […]

A new collaboration with the Chair in Energy Systems at Technical University of Munich and the Catalytic & Plasma Processing Engineering laboratory was established in October 2021 through a successful bilateral-funded project on green plasma-catalytic ammonia synthesis. The main objectives of this initial one-year project is to demonstrate the possibility of integrating a plasma source […]