Some medications affect the QT interval of the heartbeat and can result in major heart events, which can lead to death. It is unclear exactly how much medications compared to other risk factors contribute to these outcomes and when they will occur. This research project will use data from St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton’s (SJHH) Dovetale-Epic […]

Social isolation and loneliness are serious public health issues with many adverse effects on individuals’ quality of life and well-being. Notably, these are growing problems in the aging population. Working from an existing prototype and extension of our previous Mitacs project, the main objective of this research project is to develop and optimize a personalized […]

Vancouver Foundation (VF)’s Indigenous-led systems change grants support organizations addressing structural inequalities and racism faced by Indigenous organizations in BC. These organizations have historically been marginalized, counted on few resources and spent much of their time reporting to donors and coping with other bureaucratic barriers. This research will bridge the gap by reviewing academic and […]

Cardiac arrhythmia represent a major health issue in Canada, as well as in Europe, as they may lead to sudden death. Accurate means of detection need patients to undergo invasive and perilous exploration, because understanding of electrocardiograms is currently limited. To improve non-invasive detection, it is in particular interesting to understand the physical and mathematical […]

Les soins de développement (SDD) sont des interventions qui visent à réduire le stress lié à l’hospitalisation à l’unité de soins intensifs néonatals (USIN), à promouvoir le développement neurologique d’un nouveau-né prématuré, ainsi qu’à développer les compétences parentales. Les SDD peuvent comprendre le contacte peau à peau, le contrôle de l’environnement (lumière et bruit), l’évaluation […]

We are looking at developing a more interactive review/test methods for students rather than just our current true and false questions. We also want to ensure cross compatibility to ensure that the app for the review and testing works on all operating systems on phones when taking our courses online (most of our participants use […]

This project aims to compare the biomechanics of the lower limbs in individuals with different types of foot amputation (i.e., transmetatarsal, metatarsophalangeal and toe) during locomotion (e.g., walking, stair ambulation). To achieve these objectives, individuals with and without a foot amputation will undertake a biomechanical evaluation (joint movements/forces and muscle activity) during the aforementioned tasks.

The Pantry Café is run by the Autism Society of Newfoundland and Labrador (ASNL) as a social enterprise. It is is built on historic farmland in the center of St. John’s. The property includes a fruit tree orchard, 36 garden beds, current gardens, a large greenhouse, and other growing facilities. ASNL also has an on-site […]

At large, the desire of the Mitacs Research Grant is to gain understanding of surgery as a new field of science, dubbed Surgical Data Science (SDS), and to provide computer knowledge compatible robot system development through ontology driven Surgical Process Modeling (SPM) and Deep Learning (DL) methods, which can lead to autonomous surgical phase detection-based […]

With the aging of the Canadian population, the number of people living with dementia is projected to increase. Due to a lack of disease-modifying treatments for dementia, there is a pressing need to better understand how we can reduce dementia risk across all Canadians. A wide range of modifiable risk factors for dementia have been […]

The objective of this project is to develop lipid nanoparticle (LNP) reagents for the delivery of nucleic acids to turn off, or turn on target genes in “hard-to-transfect” neurons and stem cells in vitro and in vivo. A recent report (BCC Research, April 2011) observed that “51% of researchers employ cell-based techniques to perform transfection […]

The project will focus on the development and validation of novel strain measurement techniques. The effectiveness of mathematical modeling, optical tacking programs and microelectrical mechanical systems will be proven through ex-vivo testing on cadaver equine systems. The results and findings from the new systems will be evaluated against the current standards and literature reports for […]