Many entrepreneurs have passions for their ventures because they regard the ventures as their babies. Hence they are willing to put in greater amounts of “sweat equity” even if this greater effort is not fairly rewarded. This feeling is elicited by the entrepreneur’s psychological ownership. Although some psychological ownership is beneficial for new venture survival, […]

The proposed research project will take place on three nature reserves owned by the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) (Miscou, NB – 780 acres, Escuminac, NB – 630 acres, Salmonier, NL – 440 acres), where NCC wants to understand how the land is being used by the community, the motivation and beliefs of those using […]

Nearly 70% of all drug candidates are not pursued for pharmaceutical development because they cannot be dissolved into solutions appropriate for human use. Cuprous Pharmaceuticals Inc. (CPI) recently discovered that some of these drugs could be dissolved in the presence of certain metal ions. Furthermore, a number of metal-drug complexes are more therapeutically active than […]

Metaplex is a new approach to prepare metal-based drugs (metal complexes) for use in humans. It has been patented by BC Cancer and is in the process of being licensed to Cuprous Pharmaceuticals (CPI), the company which I helped to create and I currently work for. Metal complexes (MCs) are a new class of drugs […]

Dans le cadre de ce projet, l’étudiant-e stagiaire évaluera l’impact d’un supplément quotidien de poudre d’algues brunes (InSea2) sur différents paramètres liés à la prévention du diabète chez une population à risque. L’étude évaluera également la contribution du traitement sur la perte de poids associée à un programme de perte de poids modérée. Le (la) […]

La réaction de carbonylation du méthanol a été mise au point dans les années 40 par l’équipe de chercheur de la compagnie Monsanto. Ce procédé permet la production d’acide acétique et s’effectue jusqu’à maintenant en phase liquide sur des catalyseurs à base de Rh. Enerkem Inc. a développé un procédé de carbonylation de méthanol en […]

It is believed that defects in the human cell phosphorylation network are related to at least 400 different diseases such as Cancer, Alzheimer, and Diabetes. The goal of this research is to model the components of the cell phosphorylation network (e.g. kinases, substrates, phosphatases, and SH2-PTB domain proteins) and their interactions, and ultimately to build […]

Surrogate safety analysis is a growing field of road safety where the diagnosis is based on direct observations of traffic and events with some relationship to accidents, in particular traffic conflicts or near misses. Such proactive methods have several advantages, such as shorter observations periods, lower costs and better insights into accident processes. Yet, their […]

Treatments that involve activating a patient’s own immune system, immunotherapies, are becoming important cancer therapies. Unfortunately, doctors don’t always know the best way to combine these therapies to best treat patients and the current tools they have to evaluate treatment success don’t work well for immunotherapies. Molecular imaging, particularly magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or positron […]

Depuis quelques années, de plus en plus d’entreprises utilisent le data mining pour mieux comprendre les caractéristiques et les comportements de leurs clientèles. L’utilisation du data mining dans une étude de marché peut permettre d’identifier des facteurs invisibles avec des méthodes traditionnelles et ainsi avoir meilleure connaissance du client et bonifier la relation avec ce […]

Les systèmes de réalité augmentée (RA) et de réalité virtuelle (RV) ont récemment été implémentés dans divers secteurs professionnels, notamment dans les domaines de l’éducation et de la formation. Ces systèmes permettent, aux moyens de casques et d’écouteurs, de plonger les utilisateurs dans des environnements réels pour la RA, mais qui comportent des éléments virtuels […]

major contributor to smog formation is the release of volatile chemicals which are emitted from many sources including automobile exhaust and consumer products. To combat the adverse effects smog has on air quality in North America, agencies such as Environment and Climate Change (Canada) and the Environmental Protection Agency (United States) enforce limits on the […]