Cancer remains the leading causes of mortality worldwide. While treatments are available, existing chemotherapies and radiation therapy have limited success due to secondary effects on healthy cells, resulting in adverse side effects in patients. Over the past 5 years, we have witnessed the development of new and promising cancer therapeutics that stimulate and awaken the […]

Algae-C is a company specialized in algal biomass production. It enables on-site production of algae for a wide variety of sectors (aquaculture, nutraceutical, cosmetic and biofuel). To date, many fuels, pharmaceuticals and cosmetic products are extracted from plants. These valuable plant natural products (PNPs) are often produced in low quantities in plants and extraction methods […]

Ce projet de recherche vise à optimiser l’utilisation d’aluminium dans la conception de ponts routiers. Des recherches récentes montrent que l’aluminium pourrait présenter de nombreux avantages économiques grâce à son excellente durabilité, le peu d’entretien qu’il nécessite et son recyclage en fin de vie. Ces avantages seront tangibles dans la durée et non pas lors […]

Pacific salmon are important from ecological, economic, social and cultural perspectives, but many species in the Salish Sea have seen drastic decrease in marine survival rate in recent decades, likely linked to reduced survival of the young stages of salmon due to a combination of environmental, food web changes, and human impacts. This activity will […]

Bacterial infections spread from one person to another person by means of a simple “touch” of contaminated surfaces in healthcare units. These infections have become untreatable to most existing antibiotics, thereby accounts for significant mortality rate. Polyamyna Nanotech is developing new antimicrobial coatings that prevent spreading dangerous bacterial infections in hospitals and health care units. […]

Antibody-based medicines are playing an ever increasing role in the arsenal of treatments of many diseases, from cancer to obesity to Alzheimer’s. Cell surface proteins, called membrane receptors, are considered key therapeutic targets in many of these pathologies, yet targeting them with antibodies has proven to be a challenge. Amgen British Columbia is dedicated to […]

Même si une forte croissance de la production laitière caprine au Canada est observée au cours des 20 dernières années, la productivité des fermes laitières caprines dépend de plusieurs facteurs liés à la génétique et à la régie de troupeau. La nutrition des chevrettes laitières et des méthodes d’élevage des chevrettes ont été identifiées comme […]

The interns in this project will help to develop a sensor system capable of measuring the aerodynamic forces on a bicyclist. The measurement will be done in real-time; i.e. the rider will be able to see as they ride down the road how changes in their position or equipment affect their drag, and hence be […]

Discontinuities of service, variations in voltage magnitude, and distortions in AC voltage waveforms constitute the different aspects poor power quality. A poor quality of power supply can cause malfunction of sensitive equipment and interrupt industrial processes, resulting in significant economic losses. Utilities and consumers are taking actions to maintain the power quality set by the […]

Using an advanced social media analysis tool developed by experts at Nexalogy, we will look at a Twitter campaign that focuses on gender-identity and inequality in an effort to challenge and change unequal representation of marginalized people (in this case, gender) in elected office and spaces of traditional political power. By looking at female-identifying challenger […]

Proactive road safety analysis allows for the pre-emptive diagnosis of road safety issues without direct observation of traffic accidents by observing traffic-conflict-like events, and this is made possible with large quantities of high-resolution road user trajectory data acquired from video data. However, several practical challenges exist in relation to the nature of this data for […]

Les feuilles de route d’innovation sont des outils de gestion stratégiques qui sont aujourd’hui largement utilisées par les organisations pour préparer des changements majeurs et améliorer leurs capacités à travailler des innovations majeures. Toutefois, si nous connaissons aujourd’hui bien les différentes méthodes qui peuvent mener à leur développement, les questions de leurs arrimages à la […]