The goal of this project is to enhance the safety of vulnerable road users (VRUs) by elevating our knowledge of equitable changes to the built environment (BE). It includes three sub-projects: 1) prioritizes the knowledge of public health professionals and their experiences making BE changes to enhance VRUs’ safety; 2) will evaluate a road safety […]

Le projet consiste à mener une recherche participative, de concert avec la Clinique Droit de cité, permettant d’analyser les parcours judiciaires des personnes marginalisées à Québec et de cibler les enjeux et défis dans l’accompagnement. La Clinique Droit de cité vient en aide aux personnes marginalisées à Québec qui souhaitent régulariser leur situation judiciaire afin […]

Currently our organization is facing challenges with having the resources to continue our marketing strategy including completing market research, improving our company’s marketing processes and procedures as well as maintaining a social media presence. Applying for this funding will allow us to give a student a meaningful work experience while also benefitting Insight’s marketing department.

Skeletal muscle, an essential organ system making up 30-40% of total body mass, is unique in that it allows for the body’s voluntary movement. It is solicited and stressed daily and consequently possesses the remarkable ability to regenerate in response to injury due to a special population of cells named muscle stem cells (MuSCS). At […]

This project plans to use dental calculus (miniralised plaque) samples to acquire a better understanding of the development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the human oral microbiome. This will be the first metagenomic study regarding antibiotic resistance genes dating back to the Industrial Revolution (c. 1750-1850). We expect to detect some evidence of ARGs based […]

Our goal is to employ a host of new compounds, made by the applicant in her lab in Brazil, for drug discovery studies at the University of Toronto. Specifically, the host uses a technique called Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) to obtain signatures of drugs or ligands. These signatures can identify those compounds which bind strongly […]

Glaucoma and cataracts are separate, but serious conditions of the eyes. If not properly managed, both can lead to significant vision loss. Currently, there is limited quality monitoring of vision care across the Alberta. The standardized use of performance measures that evaluate the glaucoma and cataract care is paramount to improving the quality of vision […]

Asbestos was once used extensively in the fabrication of a variety of products and materials. After being declared a carcinogen and linked with a variety of lung diseases more than 2 decades ago, the use of asbestos was banned in many countries. Yet, asbestos remains a public health concern worldwide and one of the leading […]

Hemophilia is a genetic bleeding disorder in which the blood flow is impaired from clotting. If you have hemophilia, you may bleed for a longer time than others after an injury. The primary goal of our work is to enable patients with the condition to make effective decisions when injuries occur. For instance, our proposed […]

A human protein “interleukin-2” plays a key role in immunity. The target of this project is to modify this protein, triggering more immune cells in body, and hence enhancing body defense. At first, the intern will produce normal interleukin-2 in bacteria. The protein will then be mixed with the immune cells. Increase in cell amount […]

Le CHU Sainte-Justine (CHUSJ), centre hospitalier universitaire à vocation pédiatrique, est un acteur clé du système de santé québécois. Principal hôpital mère-enfant au Canada, deuxième plus grand centre de recherche pédiatrique et premier centre de recherche clinique en pédiatrie, le CHUSJ cherche aujourd’hui à se positionner à l’avant-garde des pratiques de gestion. Le contexte actuel […]

Amber is a novel preservation media for diagnostic tissue biopsies that enables superior histology, biomarker viability, and high RNA quantity. Amber is proposed to increase visualization of tumor margins on MRI. The current challenge of evaluating post-surgical specimen is the MRI technology is succumbed to surgically induced artefacts from tissue-air interface. Tumor margin detection is […]