Drug Delivery Vehicle for Gene Silencing in the Posterior Segment of the Eye

Retinal diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD), cause vision blur and distortion, eventually leading to vision loss. AMD is the leading cause of blindness in patients over 60, affecting an estimated 200 million people worldwide. Current treatments require patients to receive monthly injections into the back of the eye, risking adverse effects and placing […]

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Indigenous Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health in the Amazon Rainforest

The proposed project addresses the pressing challenges indigenous communities face in the department of Vaupés, Colombia. These challenges include cultural loss, pollution, mental health issues, and ongoing food insecurity despite the region’s extensive biodiversity. Through a participatory approach, the project seeks to engage indigenous communities in understanding the impact of environmental changes, from climate change […]

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McMaster MPP in Digital Society: Blueprint for a national caregiving strategy

Springboard Policy is a is a public policy consulting firm that helps our clients lead policy conversations and influence government decision making. We believe that when more organizations have the power to share their thinking, experience, and expertise, we all get better public policy. Our clients come from the non-profit, private and broader public sectors, […]

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Optimal Flows for the Energy Transfer

In this project, we aim to numerically analyze the following conjecture “optimal flows for energy transfer correspond to reconnection of anti-parallel vortex tubes”. We will be tackling this optimization problem using a novel method employed by Professor Protas’ research group over the past few years. This project comes as a way to maintain a strong […]

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Using a multicontinental invasion framework to understand constraints on movement and range expansion in an aquatic invasive fish species, the round goby

Our proposed project will examine how invasive species spread. We plan to address this question by studying an invasive fish species, the round goby, and compare individuals at the invasion front with individuals in the established areas of the range on two continents (Europe and North America). Our aim is to determine if there is […]

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McMaster MPP in Digital Society: Social Capital Partners

For over twenty years, Social Capital Partners has invested in projects and people with the goal of using our capital to create more economic opportunity. We have chosen to take risks, try things that others are not doing, and co-design solutions with our partners that can be scaled. We invest where we are uniquely placed […]

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McMaster MPP in Digital Society: Telus

(1) TELUS Agriculture, a business unit of TELUS, specializes in providing digital solutions and technology-driven services to the agriculture sector. Its main activity involves developing and offering innovative platforms, software applications, and data analytics tools tailored to the unique needs of farmers, agribusinesses, and stakeholders across the agriculture value chain. TELUS Agriculture’s solutions aim to […]

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Studying the process-properties relationship of a new thermoplastic lignocellulose

Canada stands well positioned to becoming a commercial leader in sustainable materials, especially when based on the waste of our natural resources like forestry pulp. A flowable bioplastic being developed at Agapyo, came out of the research at McMaster University and promises to replace petroleum-based plastics meant for structural applications. Agapyo and McMaster are working […]

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