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The role of hemoglobin-cytarabine in the selective death of acute myeloid leukemia cells

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a blood cancer with very poor prognosis, especially for patients older than 60 years of age. This is in part because of the severe toxicity of medicines available. Less harmful medicines are needed to better treat older patients. Therapure
Biopharma Inc. has chemically linked the standard toxic chemotherapy medicine called cytarabine to the blood protein hemoglobin to make a potentially safer and more effective medicine to treat AML. In collaboration with the University Of Waterloo School Of Pharmacy,
Therapure Biopharma Inc. will continue to test how well hemoglobin-cytarabine kills AML cells in the laboratory. These experiments will lay the ground work for a future study in patients to test the safety of hemoglobin-cytarabine in patients.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Paul Anthony Spagnuolo;Paul Spagnuolo

Student:

Partner:

Therapure Biopharma Inc;University of Guelph

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Guelph; University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Redevelopment of PHOPHLO as a tablet based screening tool forthe school environment

The Intern will develop a tablet based version of a test that identifies French-speaking children at school entry who are at risk for problems learning to read and write. The project will provide an opportunity for a doctoral candidate with a dual academic background in computer science and linguistics to gain skills and experience in applied settings. The project is consistent with CRIM’s mandate to support the development of innovative IT solutions and the training of highly qualified personnel.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Susan Rvachew

Student:

Partner:

Centre de recherche informatique de Montréal (CRIM)

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education; Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Technology

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Strategies, success, and social interactions: an evolutional approach to video game behaviour

Les designers de jeu vidéo accordent maintenant beaucoup de liberté à leurs joueurs qui coopèrent et combattent pour les différentes ressources dans de vastes univers virtuels en constante évolution. Les comportements observés dans les jeux vidéo multi-joueurs s’approchent de plus en plus à ceux des animaux dans leur écosystème. Ainsi, l’ensemble des joueurs d’un jeu s’organise souvent en une
communauté complexe et dynamique parfois difficile à comprendre et à prévoir. Nous proposons donc d’étudier le comportement des joueurs selon les différents principes de l’écologie et de l’évolution. La théorie évolutive et les techniques utilisées pour analyser le comportement animal peuvent faciliter le travail des gestionnaires de jeu en ligne en développant des prédictions solides sur les dynamiques de joueurs. D’autre part, ces données comportementales au sein d’environnements complexes mais contrôlés élargiront notre compréhension de l’écologie et de l’évolution des comportements.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Clint Kelly

Student:

Partner:

Behaviour Interactive

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation; Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Quantitative Digital Pathology Technique as a Tool for Cancer Progression

PCa is the second and third leading cause of cancer death for American and Canadian men, respectively. Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) screening is an effective method to diagnose PCa at early stages, however, over-diagnosis/treatment following PSA is detrimental to life quality. Although Active Surveillance (AS) is a very appealing approach for men with early stage PCa, more than 30% of AS patients will progress and require treatment. Moreover, Current diagnostic methods do not provide a sufficiently accurate and reliable means for stratifying risk because they cannot delineate the aggressive, potential lethal from the indolent, slow growing PCa cases. Our goal is to develop simple, objective, automated, widely available and cost-effective QDP tools that will provide reliable prognostic information for differentiating indolent from aggressive prostate cancers. Success with this work will improve life quality of patients significantly and decrease medical costs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pierre Lane;Haishan Zeng

Student:

Partner:

Logipath Medical Inc;BC Cancer Foundation

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Climate change and meltwater supply from debris covered Himalayan glaciers

With the benefit of three months supervision from Dr Argha Banerjee at the Indian Institute for Science Education and Research, my research on glacier dynamics and hydrology in High Mountain Asia (HMA) will make an important contribution to understanding the likely impacts of climate change, understanding that will improve people’s resilience. HMA is the most glacierized region in the world after the Poles and glacial meltwater is vital to hundreds of millions of people downstream. Research there has so far been limited and is now a high priority. There is evidence that extensive ice surface debris cover and avalanching significantly influences melt from glaciers in HMA and neither has been adequately quantified. My aim is to precisely and accurately measure these variables and model the annual and seasonal meltwater flux from glaciers in HMA over the coming century with cutting-edge methods at higher resolution than ever before.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michele Koppes

Student:

Partner:

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Modeling the effect of pile diameter on response of pile groups under lateral loading

Deep foundations are sometimes single piles which transfer loads to a stronger and deeper soil layer, but they are generally used in groups. Available design guidelines for lateral response of pile groups are based on the limited experimental studies on “small” pile groups with pile diameters of up to “30-40 cm”. This limitation is due to the difficulty and cost of full-scale testiing particularly in larger pile groups. To cope with this limitation in development and evaluation of design guidelines, it would be reasonable to use representative three–dimensional numerical simulations. The proposed research aims for investigating the effect of pile diameter on the response of pile groups under lateral loading and evaluating related design guidelines. Golder Associates Ltd. is heavily involved in analysis and design of soil-pile interaction in various largescale engineering projects. The outcome of this research would be beneficial both the intern in terms of its research merits and to Golder Associates in terms of its applications in engineering practice.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mahdi Taiebat

Student:

Partner:

Golder (Vancouver, BC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Amélioration de capteurs à effet Hall pour la mesure précise du courant et du facteur de puissance

Les méthodes commerciales actuelles de supervision de l’énergie ne répondent pas aux besoins de l’industrie, car elles sont trop volumineuses, trop couteuses et elles demandent un temps d’installation important. Une approche prometteuse consiste à utiliser des capteurs à effet Hall afin de mesurer l’intensité du courant électrique d’un circuit à partir du champ magnétique produit par ce dernier. Bien qu’il permette la mesure du courant à faible coût, ce type de capteur présente une précision limitée en comparaison à d’autres technologies. Ce projet vise donc à améliorer la mesure de l’énergie à partir de capteurs à effet Hall et ainsi réduire les ressources matérielles et les coûts reliés à l’implantation d’un système de mesures de la consommation électrique en temps réel.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ghyslain Gagnon

Student:

Partner:

Centre D'Innovation en Microelectronique du Quebec

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Investigating sediment transport in relation to the functionality of white sturgeon habitat in the Nechako River

Understanding how, when and where sediment is being transported through White Sturgeon spawning area in the Nechako River is important because fine sediment greatly reduces the quality of the habitat. Accumulation of fine sediment in the spawning areas has greatly decreased fish survival by preventing eggs from adhering to gravel on the river bed and infilling spaces between the gravel that larvae must use to hide in. Our research will address how reach-scale flow and sediment dynamics relate to sturgeon habitat and survival by quantifying the amount of sediment moving through the reach, characterizing the spatial and temporal pattern of transport and identifying how the channel is evolving through time. Results from this study will advance our understanding of reach dynamics, improve future habitat restoration by incorporating sediment transport and channel evolution into the design and ultimately contribute toward the conservation of this endangered species. The proposed research represents a mutually beneficial collaboration between the intern and NHC, whereby the intern will gain experience with techniques to be used in his thesis and NHC will be provided with data collection, post-processing and analysis.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brett Eaton

Student:

Partner:

Northwest Hydraulic Consultants Ltd

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Sensory Characteristics and Metabolomics for Flavour Selection in Pork

The hog industry in Manitoba is a very efficient means of converting grains and pulses into high quality protein. Fresh pork is a healthy and nutritious source of protein, yet demand remains static. One of the main reasons cited by consumers for not choosing
pork is the absence of good taste in modern pork. The objective of this project is to get fresh pork back on the dinner table by restoring its flavour. The process in which to achieve this goal will include the use of sensory analysis to test the flavour of 1,350 pork tenderloin samples from an array of breeds supplied by Maple Leaf. With the additional use of a metabolomics approach, we will correlate sensory results with metabolites to determine which samples result in the most naturally flavorful meat samples. Maple Leaf already owns or controls about 80,000 sows mainly in Manitoba, producing 1.8 million market hogs annually. Improving the pork flavour will further increase profitability for Maple Leaf and the hog industry, increase sales volume and revenue for the meat industry, and expand the choice of healthy protein for the consumer.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michel Aliani

Student:

Partner:

Maple Leaf Foods (Brandon, MB)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

FREE Living HEMP Seed and Oil (FREEHEMP) Trial

This project will look at how eating hemp foods, specifically hemp oil and hulled hemp seeds, daily for four weeks will impact human health. The Mitacs interns will be involved in a human clinical trial which will measure the impact of hemp food consumption on blood fatty acid profiles and cardiovascular disease risk factors, in overweight and obese volunteers. The results from this project will help hemp food product producers, such as Manitoba Harvest, to expand their potential markets, which are currently limited by the lack of human trial data regarding the health impacts of hemp food product consumption. With a more establish scientific literature, hemp foods will be able to better compete with other foods and food ingredients.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Peter Jones

Student:

Partner:

Fresh Hemp Foods Ltd

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Effects of Pulse Lighting Regimes on Microalgae Growth

Algae are microorganisms present in all aquatic environments with the ability to grow using sunlight as energy source. This ability can be harnessed to produce biomass for various purposes of industrial interests such as biofuel, animal feed, nutrients, etc. This project seeks to improve the productivity of an algal growth facility while reducing energy costs by exploring alternative illumination methods.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Claudio Slamovits

Student:

Partner:

SabrTech

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Optimisation de l’ordonnanceur dynamique de la plateforme Notixia

Dans la plupart des environnements industriels, les approches classiques d’ordonnancement sont rarement capables de prendre en considération l’information en temps réel, qui est de plus en plus présent dans différents systèmes de gestion d’entreprise. L’évolution d’une approche statique vers une approche dynamique permet d’améliorer la performance de l’ordonnancement. L’utilisation d’approches métaheuristiques pour résoudre le problème d’ordonnancement dynamique sera privilégiée dans ce projet. À travers ce projet, l’objectif est d’analyser en profondeur les fonctionnalités et les limites de l’ordonnanceur de la plateforme Notixia, et proposer des solutions de nature algorithmique, architecturale et/ou au niveau de l’implémentation, pour améliorer la performance de l’ordonnanceur. Le passage vers un ordonnancement dynamique pour la solution PLM/ERP Notixia permettra non
seulement de maintenir la confiance des clients existants et répondre à leurs besoins spécifiques, mais aussi de réponde à des nouveaux clients dont les aléas sont fréquents.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Amin Chaabane

Student:

Partner:

Witlaken inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

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