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The Tumour Cell Senescence Index: A Possible Tool to Identify Patients At High Risk of Treatment Failure During Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy

While promoting the destruction of the majority of tumour cells, chemotherapy treatment in cancer patients also permits chemo-resistant, senescent tumour cells to survive. Such senescent cells can live off dead tumour cells during and after chemotherapy. They can then form new tumours, resulting in disease progression. We have recently observed that chemotherapy treatment also induces strong degradation of an important macromolecule in tumour cells called ribosomal RNA. High ribosomal RNA degradation [as measured by the RNA disruption assay (RDA)] predicts for complete tumour destruction and improved outcome in cancer patients. Low ribosomal RNA degradation predicts for chemo-resistant disease and disease progression. We hypothesize that the level of tumour senescence in tumours during treatment may improve the utility and efficacy of the RDA at identifying early in treatment patients at high risk of treatment failure and disease progression. Such patients might best be served by being quickly moved to alternative treatments.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tom Kovala

Student:

Partner:

RNA Diagnostics Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Laurentian University

Program:

Accelerate

SALES AND MARKETING COORDINATOR

Being a sales and event based company, the COVID-19 pandemic has halted Vancouver Fashion Week’s business. As the pandemic develops more positively, I will be providing support to their sales and marketing functions. To be more specific, as an intern, I will be conducting research projects for multiple purposes (including identifying new sales opportunities) while developing the company’s sales strategy. In summary, I will be assisting the company on their mission to nurture and support the Canadian fashion and design scene.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Helsley

Student:

Partner:

Vancouver Fashion Week Management Inc.

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Intern – Remedi Wellness & Spa Ltd.

This marketing internship at Remedi Wellness & Spa Ltd., focuses on marketing Vancouver’s premiere medical aesthetics spa and on holistic wellness for clients. The internship will enlighten me about business operations pre and post-pandemic. This gives an opportunity to learn about a small business being impacted by COVID-19 and determine whether the strategies they use are useful or not. Anticipated project activities include: Gaining an in-depth knowledge of the current operations, the industry, assess the current e-commerce platform used by Remedi, an analysis of all social media platforms, providing recommendations on a new strategy as well as the implementation of said strategy

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Helsley

Student:

Partner:

Remedy Wellness

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Retail trade

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Bioconversion of wastes into polyhydroxyalkanoates and recovery of co-products at pilot scale – Year two

Sustainable biomaterials and biofuels are a critical matter that researchers are employed in. Based on sustainability issues different wastes such as paper mill activated sludge and waste cooking oil have been utilized for polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) production. Large quantities of paper mill activated sludge is produced in North America, and its safe disposal in environment is a worldwide problem. Bioconversion of wastes for value-added products can be an alternative approach, where bioplastic production (PHA) will be an interesting approach in concern to present problem of petroplastics. Also, the simultaneous recovery of co-products (exopolysaccharides and proteins) using pure culture with PHA production can reduce the overall process cost. Several studies were done in last few decades to produce PHA using mixed microbial culture. However, PHA production using pure culture and utilization of hydrolyzed activated sludge with addition of extra industrial waste as a carbon source can be an alternative approach. INRS group isolated PHA producing microorganisms from activated sludge. Thus, we propose an innovative approach to use pure culture for PHA production using paper mill activated sludge and other waste substrates. The approach will investigate various strategies to enhance PHA accumulation, process validation and scale-ups, and process development for recovery of co-products.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Patrick Drogui

Student:

Partner:

Bosk Bioproduits Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec : Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Program:

Elevate

Déterminer les indicateurs socio-économiques reliés à l’innovation et ayant un impact durable sur la société, sur l’économie et l’environnement.

Le monde évolue à un rythme très rapide et pour que le Québec devienne l’une des régions les plus innovantes du monde grâce aux conseils et au soutien du Conseil de l’innovation du Québec (CIQ), la province a besoin de savoir quoi mesurer et comment le mesurer. Le CIQ vient tout juste d’être fondé et il fait face à de nombreux défis. L’un d’eux est de concevoir des indicateurs d’innovation qui seront par la suite utilisés pour mieux comprendre l’innovation au Québec, cerner les principaux enjeux sur le sujet et développer des stratégies favorables à l’innovation. De la sorte, le projet Mitacs aidera l’organisme à délimiter une série d’indicateurs d’innovation qui jetteront les premières bases et alimenteront à plus long terme les réflexions sur les indicateurs d’innovation au Québec et au Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Catherine Beaudry

Student:

Partner:

Prompt

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Bioconversion of wastes into polyhydroxyalkanoates and recovery of co-products at pilot scale

Sustainable biomaterials and biofuels are a critical matter that researchers are employed in. Based on sustainability issues different wastes such as paper mill activated sludge and waste cooking oil have been utilized for polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) production. Large quantities of paper mill activated sludge is produced in North America, and its safe disposal in environment is a worldwide problem. Bioconversion of wastes for value-added products can be an alternative approach, where bioplastic production (PHA) will be an interesting approach in concern to present problem of petroplastics. Also, the simultaneous recovery of co-products (exopolysaccharides and proteins) using pure culture with PHA production can reduce the overall process cost. Several studies were done in last few decades to produce PHA using mixed microbial culture. However, PHA production using pure culture and utilization of hydrolyzed activated sludge with addition of extra industrial waste as a carbon source can be an alternative approach. INRS group isolated PHA producing microorganisms from activated sludge. Thus, we propose an innovative approach to use pure culture for PHA production using paper mill activated sludge and other waste substrates. The approach will investigate various strategies to enhance PHA accumulation, process validation and scale-ups, and process development for recovery of co-products.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Patrick Drogui

Student:

Partner:

Bosk Bioproduits Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec : Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Program:

Elevate

Sector-specific Migration Matrices

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for loss allowances are changing, and financial institutions are proactively adapting existing methodologies and developing new ones to remain compliant. The main ingredient in the myriad of evaluations that banks are required to perform for compliance is risk assessment. The first goal of this research project is to review best practice risk models, with a special focus on modeling the evolution of changes in creditworthiness for industry sectors. In particular the project aims to estimate and forecast the probability a portfolio of loans’ changes in creditworthiness, and thus becomes more or less risky. State of the arts machine learning and time-series techniques are used to improve forecasting abilities of the existing models and allow for model validation using different forecasting samples.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Valentina Galvani;Sebastian Fossati Pereira

Student:

Partner:

ATB Financial

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Product Marketing Coordinator

COVID?19 has propelled TTT Studios to innovate beyond our main line of business (software services & digital innovation) and explore new opportunities in internal product development. A business intern will help us advance, grow, and nurture opportunities in our product department. The Product Marketing Coordinator will receive the best of both worlds ? an opportunity to take ownership over ideation, planning, and execution of marketing and growth strategies while receiving mentorship from our team, advisors, and educational resources.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Helsley

Student:

Partner:

TTT Studios

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Sales and Marketing Coordinator

I will be responsible for enhancing company growth by generating lead lists, participating in direct outreach, CRM management, while in direct
collaboration with CEO of the company. I will participate in weekly goal setting calls and meeting KPI’s in addition to obtaining a robust knowledge of the product, the movr app, will require me to speak clearly about corporate goals.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Helsley

Student:

Partner:

movr

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Threat Models in JavaScript Applications

In the modern world people want fast access to the right data at the right time. The facilitator of this data transmission and interconnection is the internet. People are sending and receiving data through their different devices. In this so called ubiquitous era service providers are moving from in shop servers to cloud environments and from “multiple implementations for different devices” to a “one application fit all devices” paradigm. These paradigm shifts while attractive, opens systems to previously unknown security risks. The previous man in the middle or black box security model is not sufficient and software security designers should also consider man at the end or white box attacks. In our research we attempt to address software security vulnerabilities, in particular client side code executed in these untrustworthy environments.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Thomas Dean

Student:

Partner:

Irdeto Canada (Kanata, ON)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

AYN

The Arctic is entering a digital age where web-based media acts as one of the main drivers behind ideologies and action, both in the north and beyond. In order to ensure that Arctic stories are driven by Arctic creators, northern youth are searching for opportunities to enter this journalistic space. To support their mission, the AYN created a publication brand under its global network, The Exchange, to enable a one-stop-shop for young northern voices to tell real-time stories of the massive social, economic, and environmental shifts that are occurring in the Arctic. The project brings together creative youth from different backgrounds and supports them in the exchange of ideas, news, and pertinent Arctic realities at individual, community, and global scales.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rick Colbourne

Student:

Partner:

Arctic Youth Network - Quebec Chapter

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Education; Public administration

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Protein Engineering Student

The multi-billion dollar fashion industry has a problem: many of the high-performance fabrics used in everything from haute couture to athletic wear have their origins in the petroleum industry, and so are neither sustainably produced nor environmentally friendly. This means that there is a considerable market gap in sustainable textiles, which are in increasing demand by eco-conscious consumers globally. Canadian textile corporations are tackling this problem head on by actively seeking environmentally friendly solutions. This proactive approach has led them to the concept of producing Textile Replacement iMolecules (TRiMs), a new class of synthetic computationally designed proteins, for the development of novel biomaterials for high-performance fabrics. The aim of this project is to produce TRiMs via a renewable, untapped resource – genetically engineered crop plants confined in greenhouses. As a Canadian product, the TRiM protein could rejuvenate the Canadian textile market. The use of TRiM protein in clothing will cement our place in the sought-after market of durable eco-fabrics. The use of this technology will ultimately create a new division of Canadian agriculture and textile manufacturing using the resources that are inherently available to the nation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Maxim Berezovski

Student:

Partner:

Proteins Easy Corp

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture; Manufacturing

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

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Mitacs is funded by the Government of Canada, the Government of Alberta, the Government of British Columbia, Research Manitoba, the Government of New Brunswick, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Government of Nova Scotia, the Government of Ontario, Innovation PEI, the Government of Quebec, the Government of Saskatchewan, and the Government of Yukon.