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Privacy Preserving Federated Learning

5G, cloud and IoT confederation vision is to revolutionize the internet by fostering billions of interconnected mobile and embedded devices, sensors, and services, exchanging information in order to build smart, self-conscious autonomous environments. Yet, the ubiquity and value of connected devices and their applications cannot hide their security and privacy challenges. The enormous amount of data sensed and communicated over a fusion of heterogeneous networks, became an increasingly attractive target for cybercriminals. Meeting security requirements is challenging due to devices limited computational capabilities and scalability of massive connected terminals. Likewise, privacy preservation, authentication and authorization are crucial as exchanged data creates more entry points for hackers, leaving sensitive information vulnerable. Ericsson takes an overall approach to bring a comprehensive portfolio of security services, products and solutions to address an enormous need in the market. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chamseddine Talhi

Student:

Partner:

Ericsson Canada Inc (Montreal, QC)

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Elevate

VAL-083 combination therapies in chemo-resistant pediatric CNS cancers

More children die from brain cancer than from any other disease in the western world. Many anti-cancer drugs are unable to cross the blood-brain barrier to reach the tumor and certain genetic mutations in the tumor cells increase resistance to chemotherapeutics. The novel chemotherapeutic drug VAL-083 readily crosses the blood-brain barrier and accumulates in brain tumor tissues and has documented activity against pediatric brain tumors in historical clinical trials. VAL-083 has a distinct mechanism of action that enables it to overcome common chemo-resistances, as well as work synergistically with drugs of the topoisomerase inhibitor family. This project aims to identify topoisomerase inhibitors that display maximum synergy with VAL-083 in selected pediatric CNS tumors and examine the tolerability of these combinations. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mads Daugaard

Student:

Partner:

Del Mar Pharmaceuticals Ltd

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Développement des procédés d’extraction des métaux présents dans les peintures résiduelles à base d’eau

Les entreprises du secteur de peintures et revêtements sont des contributrices importantes de l’économie canadienne. Le futur de ces entreprises dépend de leur capacité à s’adapter rapidement au développement de nouveaux produits satisfaisant les besoins du marché. La consommation des peintures et revêtements génère de grands volumes de résidus, et leur gestion représente d’énormes défis environnementaux et économiques. La haute teneur en composés métalliques d’intérêt industriel permettrait de considérer ces résidus comme un gisement de matières premières pour la même industrie ou pour l’industrie chimique. L’extraction sélective de composés métalliques est basée sur des principes de l’hydrométallurgie (lixiviation, précipitation) de composés métalliques présents dans les solides de peintures résiduelles obtenus après leur conditionnement (déshydratation, séchage, dégradation thermique, lavage). Les solides métalliques récupérés pourront être utilisés par plusieurs secteurs industriels développant des chaînes d’approvisionnement circulaires de matières premières.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Satinder Kaur Brar;Antonio Avalos Ramirez

Student:

Partner:

Société Laurentide Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Université du Québec : Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Program:

Accelerate

Content Delivery Networks to the Home

CONTENT Delivery Networks (CDNs) are large distributed infrastructures of replica servers placed in strategic locations. They deliver content to end-users with reduced latency by replicating content on surrogate servers. However they face a major challenge when content is delivered to end-users accessing a same content in home settings: inefficient bandwidth usage in the access network. There are as many streams from the replica server as end-users accessing the same content. It should be noted that although multicast is implemented on most routers, Internet Service Providers (ISP) generally do not enable multicast on their network. The ley reason is that RTP on multicast did not provide an attractive platform for delivery multimedia over the Internet for a host of reasons. This project aims at tackling the problem of inefficiency in bandwidth usage. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Roch Glitho

Student:

Partner:

Ericsson Canada Inc (Montreal, QC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Identification of medical marijuana cultivars with great potential for therapeutic application

The proposed project will use classical animal models to investigate the therapeutic effects and associated side effects of extracts from the whole plant of different strains of cannabis. The targeted medical conditions include pain and chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting (CINV). Our data and results will play a key role in pre-screening of cultivars to obtain best candidates suited for particular medical conditions, or that have lower side-effect liability. Our partner, Cannevert Therapeutics Ltd, will use our data to get more resources to conduct related clinical trials, fund studies to research other potential medical indications, and develop cannabis based drugs. It’s hoped that this work will minimize the risk of failures and cost of clinical trials by our industry-standard preclinical models.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alasdair Barr

Student:

Partner:

Cannevert Therapeutics Ltd

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Mechanically compliant soft robotic grippers for automated harvesting

Automated harvesting of horticultural produce is an opportunity for Canadian farmers to improve the quality of yield, reduce labour costs, and increase revenues. The research project will focus on the design and development of soft pneumatically-driven robotic grippers that conform to the natural shape of delicate produce, such as mushrooms, in an effort to minimize crop damage during harvesting. The operating principle of the proposed grasping mechanism is based on the concept of a pneumatic artificial muscle. The soft gripper will be analyzed in terms of mechanical flexibility, pressure distribution on the target object, gripping response times, and damage to the picked produce (i.e. mushroom). The performance of the soft gripper will also be compared to the traditional passive vacuum cup grippers for picking fragile mushrooms in a large scale commercial growing bed.

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Faculty Supervisor:

George Knopf

Student:

Partner:

Vineland Research and Innovation Centre

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Agriculture and Food; Technology; Energy and Utilities

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Investigating the Role of Cannabis Derived Phytocannabinoid Formulations for the Development of Novel Mental Health Pharmacotherapies

Cannabinoid phytochemicals derived from the marijuana plant are increasingly being recognized for their potential in treating a wide variety of mental health conditions. For example, specific compounds found in marijuana such as THC and cannabidiol (CBD) are showing promise as pharmacological treatments for disorders including schizophrenia, anxiety, depression and PTSD. However, very little is understood regarding the underlying neurobiological and molecular mechanisms by which these treatments may produce their clinical effects. Our collaborative project is examining how specific phytochemicals in marijuana, with a focus on THC and CBD, may serve to improve symptoms associated with these mental health problems, using a variety of pre-clinical, translational neuroscience research techniques. Together with our industrial partner, Algae Dynamics, the goal of our research is to identify and produce specific cannabinoid oil formulations with ratios of THC and CBD that selectively target specific symptoms associated with these complex diseases. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Steven Laviolette;Walter Rushlow

Student:

Partner:

CanaQuest Medical Corporation;Bonify Medical Cannabis

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

The University of Western Ontario; Western University

Program:

Accelerate

The role of dairy consumption on variations in response to lifestyle factors in youth and adults

Obesity has increased drastically since the late 1970s and unhealthy eating habits are just one of the causes. Some studies have shown that consuming dairy products such as yogurt helps control body weight in both adults and children. However, factors such as genetics and environment (e.g. dietary and lifestyle factors) may play a role in this response as children who have an obese parent or live in low-income neighborhoods are more likely to become obese adults. The aim of this research is to look at the relationship between dairy intake, body weight and composition and metabolic health in children and adolescents at risk of obesity (i.e. at least one parent with obesity) and to examine the role of dairy in response to exercise and weight loss on body weight and metabolic health parameters. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Vicky Drapeau;Angelo Tremblay

Student:

Partner:

Alliance santé Québec

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Building Better Readers: Characterizing the Neurological Effects of the SpellRead Reading Intervention Program

An estimated 15% of Canadian children have dyslexia, which limits their ability to reach their full potential as productive members of society. Over the past 20 years, Halifax Learning Centre (HLC) has developed and successfully delivered their SpellRead program to thousands of clients, and has seen very positive outcomes. As HLC looks to deploy this program nationally and in schools, they are seeking stronger empirical evidence for their program’s efficacy, and directions for improvement. To this end, the Accelerate computer science intern will develop and mine a new research database, based on HLC’s rich (but currently hard-to-access) data from over 3000 past clients. Paired with a brain imaging study of SpellRead conducted through the parallel NSERC ENGAGE study, this work will form a key contribution to HLC’s growth and the efficacy of their product, as well as setting the stage for continued collaboration with Dalhousie’s NeuroCognitive Imaging Lab.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Aaron Newman

Student:

Partner:

Hfx Learning Centre Inc.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Education; Information and Communications Technology

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

High-Fidelity Data Converters for Medical Diagnostics

Diagnostic medical devices work by translating our vital signs, such as neuron electrical activity and brain waves, into digital data that can be manipulated by a computer. High-speed computer processing improves diagnoses by presenting the physician with a numeric or graphical readout of important features extracted from the signal. Often, the ability of computer programs to extract the most diagnostically-relevant information is limited by how well the device can recognize and ignore background electrical noise common in clinical environments. Many emerging medical technologies (such as diagnosis of spinal cord injury using nerve conduction signals or automatically controlling anesthesia by detecting changes in brainwaves) could be improved if the measurement tools were more sensitive. In partnership with audio technology company ESS Technology, this project aims to design an analog-to-digital converter for recording these important yet weaker signals and allow them to explore the applications of their technologies to medical devices.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Guy Dumont

Student:

Partner:

ESS British Columbia Holdings, Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Technology; Information and Communications Technology; Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Plasma Surface Modification for Passive Microfluidic Immunoassays

Sensoreal’s patented technology allows them to perform complicated laboratory health testing procedures on a plastic microchip the same size as a credit card. The testing is done through the use of passive microfluidics, in much the same way as trees transport water to their leaves. A blood sample is placed in the loading port of the microchip and allowed to pass through the different regions of the device. Doing so reproduces the procedures that a blood sample would go through when tested in a laboratory, however the whole process takes place in only 30 minutes. To make this technology work, the surface of the chip needs to be specially treated so that the blood flows through the entire chip. This research project will ensure that the microchip works perfectly every time, to ensure the most accurate blood tests possible.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pierre-Luc Girard-Lauriault

Student:

Partner:

Sensoreal Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Enhancing Nurses’ Role in Opioid Stewardship – Implications for health policy, practice advocacy) and patient safety – Year two

Multiple national strategies have been developed address the opioid crisis, however, Canada still remains the second largest consumer of prescription opioids. These drugs can have negative effects on consumers because they have addictive properties so therefore consumers may become addicted to these drugs if there are not taken as prescribed. For other drug classes such as antimicrobials, there have been programs developed to improve prescribing and hence patient outcomes. These programs are collectively called antimicrobial stewardship programs and usually promote cooperation between health professionals. However, most programs do not specify how nurses can promote safe prescribing and they usually are under-utilized in these programs, although it has been shown that these programs lead to better patient outcomes e.g. reduced hospital-acquired infections. For opioids, the concept of stewardship is quite ill-defined so not surprisingly nursing roles in opioid stewardship are also under-utilized. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lianne Patricia Jeffs

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Nurses Association

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Elevate

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