This project develops a ‘virtual ingenuity incubator’ responding to the COVID-19 crisis and contributing to enhancing socio-economic conditions. In Phase 1, we will uncover business practices that women and minority-led small businesses to employ to meet emergent customer needs and evolve, collaborating with the YWCA, Hamilton Fempreneurs, and the City of Hamilton Business Centre. We […]

York9 FC are looking at the viability to forming a Women’s Team to compete in League 1 Ontario. The objective of this project is to develop a sponsorship sales pipeline and execute/generate revenue that will assist in funding the women’s League 1 Ontario project. The anticipated activities include creation of sales materials and packages, customer […]

The Turkstra Lumber internship in collaboration with MITACS presents me with the opportunity to assist Turkstra with developing a new website architecture, online content, and standard operating procedures. The expected benefit for Turkstra Lumber would be my assistance in these projects and ensuring I work to enhance retail growth companywide. My execution of a few […]

A[though early clinical trials have been positive, peptide vaccine mechanism of action (how tolerance is induced) is unknown. The primary objective of these studies is to identify changes in gene expression and cytokine expression that are correlated with vaccine treatment. These changes could provide insight to mechanisms of action and may reveal potential genetic biomarkers […]

This project will address the scalability problem that currently exists in algaculture. Scaling up algae production to the industrial level has been challenging. The reason’ being that productivity of photosynthetic algae is highly dependent on light and CO2 availability, which become less available as photobioreactor (algae tank) size increases. The solution is to use circulation […]

The scope of the project is to develop unique processes, technologies, and secondary uses to manage End of Life renewable energy asset liabilities and bridge the gap between renewable energy stakeholders and industrial recycling facility operators. This will be done while considering the new norms and challenges on businesses due to COVID-19. The benefits of […]

Decision-making frameworks for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) have become a major topic in developed nations in recent years. Indeed, the quest for more rational and transparent HTA decisions led many jurisdictions to investigate the use of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) as an alternative decision-making framework. In Canada, the development of a MCDA framework for HTA […]

The production of biogas via the anaerobic digestion of organic waste is a growing industry in Canada. One benefit of this approach is that the resultant organic waste (digestate) can be dewatered and used as fertilizer; however, the removed water fraction remains rich in organic compounds and must be adequately treated before being discharged from […]

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic and fatal disease lung disease with unknown cause. There are limited treatment options for IPF and investigations into new treatment options is needed. BOLD-100 is a clinical-stage small molecule that is currently being investigated as a treatment option in oncology and viral infections. The pathway that BOLD-100 impacts, […]

Given the public health-care system in Canada, many drugs are paid through by the provincial drug plans. Our government makes decisions on which drug to pay for through a process known as health technology assessment whereby manufacturers submit a document that details the clinical, economic and other aspects (e.g. ethical, social) relating to their drug. […]

There are three legal clinics funded by Legal Aid Ontario that addressed the needs of workers. There is a need to better understand the work of the legal clinics and the needs of the populations they serve in order to guide their ongoing work. The objective of this project is to co-design a framework of […]

This research project is related to the development of innovative solutions to enhance thermal performance of self-contained DM systems. The project will be carried out in collaboration with Van der Graaf Inc. (VDG), which is a Canadian company located in Brampton, Ontario. A long-term plan has been developed by the applicant and the industrial partner. […]