The increasing wildfires threaten, indirectly, water quality by altering physicochemical properties and introducing contaminants to water bodies. This research aims to address how wildfire pollutants impact water systems, identify research gaps, and analyze data from Canada and worldwide to understand trends and mitigate impacts on water resources.

Precision medicine is showing great promise in the fight against cancer. One of the major hurdles is how to best target cancer cells for destruction while sparing normal ones because both share many of the same attributes or “targets”. However, when cancer grows, tumors create a microenvironment around them, the TME or tumor microenvironment. The […]

Le secteur industriel est le plus grand consommateur d’énergie au Québec, représentant environ 40 % de la consommation totale d’énergie. L’amélioration de la gestion de l’énergie dans ce secteur est un objectif essentiel, tant pour le fournisseur d’énergie et les clients, compte tenu des coûts de l’énergie, des impacts environnementaux et des ressources disponibles. En […]

Electromagnetic transient (EMT) simulations are often used nowadays for analyzing the transient behaviour of power systems. However, due to the large size and complexity of modern-day power networks, simulating them in EMT programs can become excessively slow. Multi-rate simulation is one of the effective ways of speeding up EMT simulations. In this approach, only critical […]

In Canada, there is still a lack of wastewater treatment systems for enormous number of remote communities and industrial sites. Therefore, a mobile and cost-effective waste treatment system is urgently desired for scattered water treatment demands. This project aims at the development of a ZrO2/sericin-membrane-enhanced integrated mobile system (IMS) for decentralized wastewater treatment with energy […]

Our project seeks to document the criminalization of Indigenous fishers and fisheries in so-called Canada and beyond, and use equitable knowledge-bridging and research co-creation tools to explore possibilities of transformation towards justice. The criminalization of Indigenous fisheries (among other cultural, spiritual, and subsistence practices) is a destructive colonial practice that leads to inequity, loss of […]

The decline of Pacific salmon on the south and central coast of British Columbia has resulted in well-recognized economic, ecological, and cultural impacts. Numerous factors are considered to have contributed, including marine conditions, climate change, and changes to freshwater habitats. Forest harvesting is often considered to have altered freshwater habitats where salmon spawn and rear […]

Alentic Microscience Inc has developed a highly portable device that performs complete blood counts and other in vitro diagnostic tests based on the lensless microscopic imaging of blood and reagents. The system uses proprietary sampling techniques and unique analysis software based on advanced machine learning techniques. The software has been designed as a multistep process […]

Un-crewed Air Vehicles (UAVs) have many applications in different sectors, such as security, surveying, and logistics. However, the flight autonomy of the UAVs is a key factor that can limit their mission potential. Shearwater Aerospace is a Canadian company based in Montreal that develops autonomous operating software based on artificial intelligence, Smart Flight, for professional […]

Cancer treatments that stimulate the immune system, called immunotherapies, have shown promise in fighting cancer. However, the success of immunotherapy depends on many factors, including tumor’s metabolism and the surrounding environment—the tumor microenvironment (TME). The TME is a complex mix of different cell types, including those that support the tumor’s growth and others that fight […]

Computer simulation of transient events in an electric power system requires advanced modeling and computational tools. Introduction of renewable resources, such as wind and solar power, has caused fundamental changes to our power systems, thereby rendering many of our existing simulation tools inadequate. This research aims to solve some of the underlying shortcomings of power […]

The overarching project goal is to validate the compound’s use as a management strategy for muscular dystrophy, opening the path to its clinical testing in a rare disease and expanding its commercialization potential beyond bone-related conditions.