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Microfluidic Hydrogel-based Biomolecule Detection Through Novel Advection Transport

Healthcare requires the early and accurate detection of disease indicators, be they small biomolecules or viruses, which is vital for successful treatments, preventative medicine and disease prevention. Improving turnaround times for early and accurate detection will improve patient care, enable the mass screening of large populations during outbreaks and effectively reduce the diagnostic burden. We have developed a small-scale filter detection device to provide high sensitivity, while being inexpensive and portable for diagnostics at the point of care. Our device can be scaled to detect multiple biomolecules using established paradigms that are used in current standards of quantifications of proteins and other biomolecules in blood, for example, by antibody binding. Antibodies are highly specific and strong binders of unique molecule surfaces, and we have devised a novel way of implementing them for detection, using a secondary fluorescent reporter.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dae Kun Hwang

Student:

Partner:

Springboard Atlantic Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Biotechnology; Environmental Science and Technology

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Accelerate

Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE)-based Framework for Net-Zero Home Construction- Wilden Living Lab (Phase II)

The proposed study will focus on extending the Wilden Living Lab (WLL) Research Program by constructing a net-zero house (as the third house of the program) with new material combinations and construction practice. A post occupancy evaluation will be conducted to identify cost-effective material selection tools for building energy-efficient detached homes. Accordingly, a net-zero house will be built in collaboration with the partners, and the user behavioral data will be monitored and assessed for the next 3 years. The partners can utilize research findings to deploy necessary energy-efficiencies and best management practices within their community and beyond. The WLL online platform can be used to push research results to the industry and enhance the knowledge of the local and provincial construction industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shahria Alam;Mohammad Khalad Hasan;Rehan Sadiq;Kasun Hewage;Shahria Alam

Student:

Partner:

Blenk Development Corp;FortisBC Energy Inc;Authentech Homes;Genesis Building Controls

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Utilities

University:

The University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Point-of-care breath analyzer for early-stage disease diagnosis

As the third documented emergence of an animal-to-human coronavirus during the past two decades (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2002, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome in 2012), the current pandemic and near-certainty of future epidemics demands intensified surveillance and proactive screening. Definitive therapy for novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is likely at least half a year away. Current standard-of-care diagnostic testing with real-time Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (rRT-PCR) is resource intensive, costly and inaccurate. An alternative, high sensitivity, rapid and label-free technique for detecting and differentiating molecular structures, including viral strains, at the point-of-testing is urgently needed.
Herein, we develop a high sensitivity, rapid near-instantaneous, reagent-free point-of-care testing system for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). We propose to demonstrate the viability of rapid reagent-free detection of COVID-19 in exhaled breath condensate and allied samples (saliva and sputum) using ultra-sensitive nanophotonic structure which will be used as a sensing platform for multi-wavelength surface enhanced Raman scattering/spectroscopy, and further, translate this technology for widespread use in a range of public and health settings.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nazir Kherani

Student:

Partner:

Springboard Atlantic Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Biotechnology; Pharmaceuticals

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Tunable, High Throughput UV Exposure Device

Ultraviolet-C (UV) light is able to damage cells and organic matter to make water, air, and high touch surfaces safe for the public. UV-C lamps render microorganisms harmless by damaging their cell structure and DNA. UV-C based water treatment has safely been used for decades by water utilities around the world. Recent developments in technology and research have allowed for an even wide application to clean surfaces, air, and water using UV light. This project proposes a device that will allow for researchers to collect UV data from their experiments much faster than current techniques allow. This device will also make the usage of UV lights more reliable by simplify the way that the turn on and off when shining on a sample. In summary, the proposed device will allow for the faster creation and development of UV-based technologies that keep the public safe.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Graham Gagnon

Student:

Partner:

Springboard Atlantic Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Water; Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Environmental Science and Technology

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

ePROS-A – eÉducation à la santé attitudes et comportements alimentaire

La compréhension holistique et régulation complexe de l’acte de manger, catalysé par le contexte du confinement pandémique, impose une approche transdisciplinaire. Pour répondre à ce défis, l’équipe GR2TCA-Loricorps porteuse de la demande, propose un projet partenarial intersectoriel ePROS-A en développant un programme efficace d’eÉducation à la santé s’appuyant sur des outils numériques. Ce projet nécessite deux phases. [P1] La première phase préalable est une phase de création du contenu du programme est des outils numérique (p. ex., une plateforme web, une application mobile incluant la réalité virtuelle ainsi qu’une banque de données anonymisées et sécuritaires) adaptés et optimisés à la collecte spécifique de ce type de données à travers une collaboration étroite et intersectorielle entre les sciences humaines et différentes branches de l’informatiques. [P2] La seconde est une phase d’évaluation de l’efficacité du programme d’eÉducation à la santé « In-spire » via des analyses quantitatives et qualitatives. Le programme « In-spire » s’appuiera principalement sur l’implémentation de la plateforme Instagram-Loricorps associée au Compagnon de poche-Loricorps sous forme d’une d’application mobile incluant l’environnement virtuel eLoriCorps. Cette phase aura le double objectif [O1 et O2] d’optimiser une Unité Intégrée ePROS-A [O.1] afin d’évaluer l’efficacité du programme « In-spire » [O2] TOBECONT

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Faculty Supervisor:

Fadel Touré;Johana Monthuy-Blanc;Shany Carle;Usef Faghihi

Student:

Partner:

Équipe Féminine.ca;Logiq Innovations;Versom VR

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Cégep de Trois-Rivières; Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Accelerate

Development and market assessment of a reliable and efficacious anthocyanin-based healthy food ingredient

To date, there is a growing attention to the use of plant-food bioactives in disease prevention. Anthocyanin, a colorful plant pigment extracted from purple and blue color fruits and vegetables has been investigated broadly for its cancer preventive and immunity boosting properties. However, anthocyanin degrade during the conventional food processing conditions such as exposure to high temperature and light. Moreover, the benefits of anthocyanin could reduce due to gastric acid and gut enzymes. Therefore, the amount of anthocyanin ultimately absorbed to the body is very minimum and that amount is not able to produce the pronounced health benefits. To overcome above, we will develop anthocyanin-based food ingredient with a protective natural coating. As for the next step, the marketing feasibility of new anthocyanin-based food ingredient will be assessed through gaining consumer feed backs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Vasantha Rupasinghe

Student:

Partner:

Springboard Atlantic Inc.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Agriculture and Food; Technology

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Characterization of Parasitic Lead Inductances of E-mode pGaN HEMTs to Debug the Early Drain Breakdown Problem

In the field of power electronics, it is vitally important to fabricate transistors that can work under high-voltage regimes, that are more energy-efficient. Our sponsor Crosslight has a customer, GaNPower, which is a Canadian company that designs and makes GaN transistors for this purpose. However, the transistors break down more easily when used on circuit boards after packaging. Crosslight is responsible to debug this problem. In this project, we will work with Crosslight build a test board and its circuit model to test its first hypothesis of the problem.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Guangrui Xia

Student:

Partner:

Crosslight Software Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Assessment of the feasibility of manufacturing and marketing carvacrol-incorporated natural health products

Antibiotic therapy has been the primary approach for strep throat. Although various antibiotics, including penicillin, are effective, bacteriologic, and clinical treatment failures have been reported. Patients are more concerned about soothing the pain during the infection, and green/natural drug therapy with less or no adverse side effects are becoming popular. From preliminary studies and literature, carvacrol has been identified as a potential candidate for antibiotic therapy alternatives. Carvacrol, a bioactive found in several herbal plant extracts, show quick anti-bacterial activity against strep throat causing bacteria. However, it is still a need to understand the feasibility of using carvacrol in safer doses, stability under the manufacturing conditions and potential customer acceptability of carvacrol incorporated throat lozenge. The objectives of the project are to assess carvacrol’s feasibility incorporated dehydrated honey lozenge in manufacturing and marketing. Anti-bacterial activity of incorporated carvacrol in pre- and post-manufacturing will be investigated. Safety concerns, maximum incorporated doses and sensory factors will be assessed by literature search and consumer survey. These findings will help to explore the application of carvacrol as an effective and safe natural health product (dehydrated honey lozenge) in soothing painful inflammation in patients.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Vasantha Rupasinghe

Student:

Partner:

Springboard Atlantic Inc.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Agriculture and Food; Technology

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Identification and assessment of bioactive yeast strains and cell wall components

Since yeast probiotics and their cell wall components (CWC) are being used to treat enteric inflammatory diseases in different species including humans, they may be useful for preventing Johne’s disease, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease of ruminants caused by Mycobacterium avium spp. paratuberculosis (MAP). Considerable variation in the efficacy of different yeast probiotics and their CWC has been reported; therefore we are proposing to develop in vitro assays that will allow us to assess potential anti-adhesive properties of yeast strains and CWC using MAP as a target pathogen. Additionally, bovine macrophages will be used to assess potential yeast strain and CWC immunomodulatory properties. These assays may be useful for high throughput screening of probiotics and their bioactive compounds, studying their mechanisms of action, and for product quality control.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Niel Karrow

Student:

Partner:

Lallemand Health Solutions Inc (Montreal, QC)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

Advanced Plastic Recycling: New generation catalyst development for direct synthesis of lower olefins using waste derived syngas

Ethylene is an important building block for the chemical industry and is most widely produced at global production scale of 200 million metric tonnes. As a typical chemical feedstock, ethylene is used to produce plastics, consumer goods, solvents, paints, among many others. Ethylene is predominantly produced by steam cracking which is run at very high temperatures and releases up to 2.7 kg CO2 eq./ kg of polyethylene produced. In Alberta, the production of ethylene and derivatives results in more than 4.5 million tonnes CO2 eq. / year; this is equivalent to more than 33% of non-energy sector CO2 emissions in Alberta.
This project focuses on an advanced recycling process of waste plastic to ethylene (circular plastic). This will be achieved by using the Enerkem Gasification Technology Platform that allows all such waste (like waste plastic, municipal solid waste with significant amount of single-use-plastic as well as biomass that may include agricultural waste and forestry waste) to convert in to syngas. In in this project a catalyst will be developed for syngas to ethylene and propylene conversion.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Natalia Semagina

Student:

Partner:

Enerkem (Edmonton, AB)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Rare-earth element doping of dielectric thin films using ion implantation

The requirement for online communication continues to grow exponentially, primarily a result of the increased demand for information sharing bandwidth. This demand is driven by video-over-internet applications used for both entertainment, and conferencing (felt most recently in the need for remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic).
Integrated optical components fabricated in silicon are receiving particular attention as a means to provide this bandwidth in a cost-effective way. In this proposal we address the specific need for optical amplification (signal boosting) which benefits from the properties of rare-earth elements in contrast to the limitations of semiconductor optical amplifiers. These optical amplifiers will contribute to allow the stringent link budgets of communications systems to be met.
The industrial partner, Kinectrics, has a significant interest in the development of high current, ion implantation for exploitation is a number of areas such as optical amplification, modification of thin films and isotope separation for medical applications. This proposal will advance their development program.
The intern will spend up to 50% of the grant period on-site at Kinectrics, There, they will use the results from experimental work at McMaster to guide the design of a high current ion implanter for use by Kinectrics at their site.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andrew Knights

Student:

Partner:

Kinectrics Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Advanced Manufacturing; Information and Communications Technology; Technology

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

Experimental and numerical evaluation of the electromagnetic, mechanical and thermal behaviour of Kimberlite under microwave irradiation

In an environment of high risk and competitive, the mining industry needs continuous innovation and productivity enhancement. One of the major issues with present hard rock deposits is the cyclic mining operation associated with the drill and blast method. Another major obstacle in the extraction and processing of such rocks is the relatively high wear rate on the cutting tools which leads to low rate of penetration and low performance in conventional mechanical hard rock excavation machines. Also, it has made the comminution of such rocks extremely energy intensive and costly with high wear rates. Consequently, sustainable development of mineral resources requires reduced wear on both rock cutting and comminution equipment. This research work aims to extend the study and develop the engineering know-how and numerical simulation tools needed for successful integration of microwave-assisted technique in excavation and processing of rocks as well as reduction of equipment wear and energy from mine to mill. This comprehensive study will be beneficial for DeBeers in operation optimization in terms of energy efficiency, carbon footprint, costs related to equipment wear and tear and associated downtimes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ferri Hassani;Agus Sasmito

Student:

Partner:

De Beers Canada Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

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