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Operational analysis and optimization of the delivery of HIV treatment and care in Vancouver

The continuum of HIV care is highly complex. It includes prevention, testing, patient care, treatment, and support services. This project will help Providence Health Care utilise its limited resources to provide the best treatment and care for people living with HIV in Vancouver. Care for HIV patients includes antiretroviral therapy, treatment of co-morbidities, monitoring clinical markers of disease progression (CD4 count and viral load), and support services to ensure treatment adherence and retention in care. A mathematical model of the continuum of HIV care services will be developed and this model will be used to optimize the allocation of resources across the system to maximize positive health outcomes. Through the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS, Providence Health Care is responsible for providing treatment services for HIV patients in British Columbia. This project will help Providence Health Care determine the most effective interventions for combatting the HIV epidemic.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alexander Rutherford;JF Williams;Krisztina Vasarhelyi

Student:

Partner:

Providence Health Care

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

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

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Design and advancement of Graft Enabled Antibody Therapies (GrEAT)

Membrane proteins such as ion channels, transporters or G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) are excellent but difficult drug targets involved in a large number of life-threatening diseases and conditions. These proteins, over-expressed and essential for disease onset and progression, are naturally targeted by toxins from venomous organisms. During evolution, these toxins have been optimized to efficiently target physiologically-relevant proteins involved in ion channel opening or closure, thus incapacitating the prey or defending against predators. We propose to generate synthetic antibody (Ab) libraries that integrate natural toxin-based polypeptides grafted in place of one of the complementarity determining regions as a scaffold. Such libraries will be a formidable resource for discovery and subsequent directed-evolution of graft-enabled antibodies against pharmacologically challenging or previously thought as “undruggable” targets, as well as be a starting point for further biological therapeutic lead development and commercialization, in line with the vision and mission of the partner organization, CCAB.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jason Moffat

Student:

Partner:

Centre for the Commercialization of Antibodies and Biologics;University of Toronto

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Elevate

Sport, international development, and community (re)generation: the case of cricket communities in India

This research projects investigates the partnership between two British-based organizations: a real-estate investment company, Anglo Indian; and the Marylebone Cricket Club/Lord’s Cricket Ground (MCC/Lord’s), a prominent global cricketing organization. The partnership emerged from a plan to co-create twelve branded ‘planned communities’ in India. The goal of this study is to examine how the first community in Pune is produced by public and private actors, the role of sport as a tool for development in this context, how the community is experienced by those living and working within its boundaries, and the intended and unintended consequences of this development for those included and excluded from its spaces. The hope is that this project would help inspire balanced thinking about the role of sport in development and globalization, especially in the Global South.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brian Wilson

Student:

Partner:

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Micro and Nano-structural Elements of Flax and Hemp Fibres Sourced inManitoba.

Improved application of hemp and flax fibres in advanced materials will promote Manitoban agriculture and associated industrial production in the emerging bioeconomy. The proposed research will provide, via high resolution chemical mapping, the fundamental science platform required for the rational design of advanced, sustainable biocomposite materials, combining appropriate fibre-matrix complexes de novo. It will augment current research examining the performance of natural fibre-based materials tackling head-on critical barriers to their commercialisation. This will assist the non-financial partner, SWM International, as they are seeking process improvements to produce and validate higher performance fibres for application in new markets.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ying Chen

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Design of Polar Codes for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Communication Systems: Constellation and Code Design

Reliable communication over wireless channels has been an active research area for decades. By employing multiple transmit and receive antennas, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems increase the capacity of a wireless channel, bringing significant gain over single-input single-output (SISO) systems. One of the main tools to achieve the improved capacity are error correction codes. During the years since the introduction of the error correction codes, there have been many important breakthroughs in this field. Polar codes are the most recent of these revolutions. Roughly speaking polar codes are the first class of channel codes that are theoretically proved to be optimum. In this project different approaches to design polar codes for MIMO systems will be developed. As a result of this research we expect better channel codes for wireless communication systems that are able to provide greater reliability at higher data transmission rates with lower complexity than existing techniques.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Halim Yanikomeroglu

Student:

Partner:

Huawei Technologies Canada Co Ltd (Toronto, ON);Carleton University

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Technology; Information and Communications Technology; Other

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Elevate

Developing a new magnetic sensor for application in biosensing and surveying – Year 2

Detecting subtle chemical and physical changes occurring at the early stages of chronic disease and many other infectious diseases caused by harmful bacteria is still a challenge, as ultra-sensitive sensors with large signal-to-noise-ratio are required to detect them. We recently explored new ways to enhance the sensitivity of magnetic nano-sensors and theoretically demonstrated that under optimum design conditions, the sensitivity can be improved by up to a thousand – higher than any of the biosensors currently available on the market. This new sensor merges three branches of physics: magnetics, optics, and plasmonics. Due to the tunability of light and magnetic fields, this sensor configuration can detect as small as 100 parts per billion changes in material optical properties. This work would allow GEM Systems to diversify their product development, complementing their ongoing effort in magnetic field sensor development for surveying, mineral, oil and gas exploration, to name a few.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Simone Pisana

Student:

Partner:

GEM Systems Inc;York University

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

York University

Program:

Elevate

Developing a new magnetic sensor for application in biosensing and surveying

Detecting subtle chemical and physical changes occurring at the early stages of chronic disease and many other infectious diseases caused by harmful bacteria is still a challenge, as ultra-sensitive sensors with large signal-to-noise-ratio are required to detect them. We recently explored new ways to enhance the sensitivity of magnetic nano-sensors and theoretically demonstrated that under optimum design conditions, the sensitivity can be improved by up to a thousand – higher than any of the biosensors currently available on the market. This new sensor merges three branches of physics: magnetics, optics, and plasmonics. Due to the tunability of light and magnetic fields, this sensor configuration can detect as small as 100 parts per billion changes in material optical properties. This work would allow GEM Systems to diversify their product development, complementing their ongoing effort in magnetic field sensor development for surveying, mineral, oil and gas exploration, to name a few.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Simone Pisana

Student:

Partner:

GEM Systems Inc;York University

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

York University

Program:

Elevate

A fully customized image sensor for fluorescence imaging in biomedicine

Customized image sensors will be designed by EnviroSen specifically for advanced microscopes used in biomedical imaging. The goal is to develop image sensors with improved efficiency, image resolution and speed compared to existing technologies for novel microscopes for fluorescence lifetime imaging. The McMaster Biophotonics group has recently developed a novel microscope that is capable of detecting fluorescence lifetimes of biological samples with 400 times improvement in image acquisition speed. Although the commercially available image sensors are very advanced, they are still limited when applied to biomedical imaging applications. Thus, the McMaster Biophotonics team and EnviroSen’s technical staff will work closely to develop novel, fully customized image sensors that will overcome many of the technical challenges of biomedical imaging. Once developed, the potential applications of customized image sensors for advanced microscopy will open a new market for EnviroSen and allow McMaster’s Biophotonics team to explore other opportunities in this area.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Qiyin Fang

Student:

Partner:

EnviroSen Inc;McMaster University

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Elevate

Brainwave technology and health status quantification in dementia

Dementia involves significant memory loss and represents a major public health threat. Brainwave technologies can be used to monitor brain changes in the process of dementia. The proposed study is to apply the latest research advancement of brainwave technologies, called NeuroCatch. A hundred older adult participants with dementia and with cognitively normal aging will have multiple brainwave tests using NeuroCatch, at 0, 3, 6 and 12 months after enrolling into the study. Changes in the brainwave over time will be examined for individuals, compared between subject groups, and related with health assessment data. Findings of the study will help understand the neural basis of dementia and the relations of brain health with general health.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ryan D’Arcy;Xiaowei Song

Student:

Partner:

Lark Group;Pharmx Rexall Drug Stores Ltd

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Caractérisation de la diversité et de la phénologie des punaises Pentatomidae dans la culture du pois au Québec dans le but de développer une technique de dépistage fiable

Depuis les dernières années, les punaises de la famille des Pentatomidae posent de plus en plus de problèmes dans la culture du pois au Québec. Bien que la présence de ces dernières sur les plants ne provoque pas de pertes de rendement significatives, elles contaminent toutefois les récoltes. Leur ressemblance au pois, quant à la taille et à la couleur, rend l’opération de triage optique très difficile. La faible disponibilité d’insecticides homologués et efficaces pour contrôler ces punaises ont forcé le secteur à se tourner vers un insecticide à large spectre très nocif. Considérant l’augmentation des populations de punaises et l’arrivée récente d’une nouvelle espèce, soit la punaise marbrée, une bonne connaissance de leur biologie et des méthodes de dépistage est nécessaires pour envisager un programme de lutte intégrée. Le projet propose donc de documenter le cycle biologique des Pentatomidae dans la culture du pois et de proposer une stratégie de dépistage efficace contre cet ennemi. Ces connaissances permettront ainsi de mieux cibler les interventions phytosanitaires afin de minimiser l’utilisation des insecticides en milieu agricole.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Éric Lucas

Student:

Partner:

CÉROM

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture and Food; Environmental Science and Technology

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Study the effect of magnetic liner on ball milling efficiency utilizing DEM modelling

HMR-Canada has introduced magnetic liners for grinding mills that will improve the mill performance and efficiency. Mill liners have two main functions. First they protect the mill shell from wear and deliver energy to the material by lifting the material in a trajectory that creates the energy needed to break the rocks.
Magnetic liners in specific add other functions to the liners. They attract scats and magnetic minerals that form a renewable protective layer, which would increase life span of liners and shell, easier and faster to install. Magnetic liners have been introduced before, but their design and shape were never optimised.
In this project the effect of the magnetic liner profile, the shape of the layer formed by the scats and magnetic minerals as well as the mill speed, on the charge trajectory, force distribution and energy spectra will be studied. The tool that will be used for this study is Discrete Element Modeling.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bern Klein

Student:

Partner:

HMR Technology Canada Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Feature extraction using 3D data acquired with a mobile scanning system designed for underground mining

The uGPS Rapid Mapper™ is a laser system mounted on a mining vehicle which acquires 3D images of tunnels in underground mines. Currently, engineers use the images for mine design and operations. This research project will create two new applications for the images acquired by the system: mapping of the geology of the tunnel walls (identifying different rock types, minerals veins and fractures) and making a tally of man-made objects (such as rock bolts, pipes and ventilation tubes). Access to geological data derived automatically from images will allow mining geologists to optimize their efforts and devote strategically their attention to the most promising areas. The inventory of man-made objects will assist in planning the development of the mine. Progress made during the project will help Peck Tech to expand the range of applicability of the uGPS Rapid Mapper™.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Claire Samson

Student:

Partner:

Peck Tech

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Mining; Technology; Natural Resources

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

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