Innovative Projects Realized

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Engineering - biomedical
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Engineering - chemical / biological

Ultrasound-driven “on-demand” pulsatile delivery of chemotherapeutics or chemotherapeutic delivery vehicles to tumours

In many drug delivery methods, chemotherapeutic drugs have a hard time solely attacking cancer cells in a tumour and instead also attack healthy cells in the body, leading to severe side effects. Pharmasonica has developed ultrasound-responsive microcapsules that can be injected in the stationary tumour. These microcapsules have small silica nanoparticles on their outer shell that eject out upon ultrasound activation (similar to popping a cork on a wine bottle) to enable “on demand” drug release; the more nanoparticles ejected out, the more drug is released. This enables clinicians to personalize and optimize a chemotherapeutic treatment for an individual patient. This project aims to confirm the mechanism of drug release (ideally pulse-like over multiple ultrasound activation cycles), assess what types of therapeutics can be delivered by the microcapsules, and gain proof-of-concept data around the biocompatibility, safety, and efficacy of the microcapsules for cancer therapy within an animal model. From this interaction, the partner will receive validation data on their prototype essential to bring it closer to the healthcare market as well as an improved understanding of the key market(s) to target.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Heather Sheardown

Student:

Andrew Singh;Jonathan Que

Partner:

Pharmasonica Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Implementing lessons learned from the pandemic to support our vulnerable populations

The purpose of this project is to improve the lives of citizens in The Region of Durham through a partnership between the Regional government and Ontario Tech University. This project will tackle issues related to aiding vulnerable populations in our communities such as members of our homeless population and seniors living in long-term care homes. It will accomplish these goals by:
• Examine how feasible and effective it is to set up community hubs for the homeless and other vulnerable populations, where they can meet all their health, mental health, and other needs in one place.
• Determine what factors/attributes make nurses and personal support workers decide whether or not they want to be employed in long-term care workforce, with the goal of attracting more prospective nurses and PSW to work in this sector.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Winnie Sun

Student:

Voletta Peters;Farzana Rahman

Partner:

The Regional Municipality of Durham

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Other

University:

Ontario Tech University

Program:

Accelerate

Automatic Tracking, Localization, and Action Recognition of Hockey Players, Using Broadcast Videos (Phase 2)

Automatic analysis of sport videos is an attractive research area in computer vision that is driving the sport analytics towards a more technological edge. By automatically analyzing sport videos, lots of information could be drawn that benefits the teams, coaches, referees, players and even the fans, such as: extracting strategy of the game, technique and performance of each individual player, performance of the referee in a competition, and etc. This area of research, although attracted many researchers in the computer vision community, is still in its infancy. This project focuses on automatic analysis of the broadcast hockey videos. Explicitly, in this project as the second phase of a hockey video analytics project, precise tracking and localization of the players on the ice-rink will be performed and 2D pose of the players and goalie will be extracted and will be used for recognizing the action type that is performed by each player and goalie.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Clausi;John Zelek;Alexander Wong

Student:

Mehrnaz Fani

Partner:

Stathletes

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

PATH: Program to Accelerate Technologies for Homecare

Most people would like to continue living in their own homes as they age. A new ecosystem is needed to enable home health technologies to be developed, tested and successfully commercialized. This will require a program that provides a low-cost way for developers to test their products before introduction to the market. Therefore, in our Program to Accelerate Technologies for Homecare (PATH), the intern will develop a novel versatile connection protocol that will connect different devices and sensors to a single hub. One of the benefits of this proposal is the ability for our industry partner SmartONE to integrate different devices through a single synchronized platform. The validated system will be installed in 4 different living labs and 350 real home units across Canada. The explosion of data from these devices presents a tremendous opportunity for the developers at SmartONE and PDF to develop their own algorithms and Application Program Interfaces.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Atena Roshan Fekr;Geoffrey Fernie

Student:

Harman Kaur

Partner:

SmartONE Solutions Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - biomedical

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Solid state electrode development for Li-ion batteries

Reducing fossil fuel use in transportation and utility scale electricity sectors is required to meaningfully reduce anthropogenic carbon emissions and to improve air quality in urban and industrial centres. Lithium ion batteries are beginning replace combustion engines for transportation applications, and show promise as tools that allow power utilities to seamlessly integrate intermittent carbon-free energy sources (i.e. windmills and solar panels) into the electricity grid. Currently, lithium ion batteries are expensive to produce, degrade with extended and intensive use, and do not operate consistently over the environmental conditions seen in Canada (and across the world). This increases the cost of carbon-free energy to consumers, and discourages widescale adoption. We are developing battery materials that are more resilient to intensive use and environmental conditions and manufacturing methods that will lower production costs. This will increase their viable lifetime and operating window, and decrease the cost deploying lithium ion batteries in transportation and utility scale applications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Carolyn Hansson

Student:

Colin Bridges

Partner:

Electrovaya Corp

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Chemistry, manufacturing, and control (CMC) assessment of Manganescan

To design effective and patient-specific cancer therapy, sensitive detection of relapse and distant metastases by non-invasive medical imaging is essential, for which MRI offers tremendous potential due to wide availability of the equipment in clinic and avoidance of ionizing radiation. Although gadolinium-based contrast agents are the most frequently used for MRI, they are associated with nephrogenic systemic fibrosis and brain deposition. Thus, less toxic manganese ions are exploited as an alternative for tumor detection using MRI. Yet, the current formulations of manganese ions cannot provide desirable results due to low tumor uptake after systemic administration. To address the need, Nanology Labs offers a novel manganese-based MRI contrast agent, called Manganescan, which is able to detect solid tumors and brain metastasis at early stages. In this project we aim at evaluating physiochemical properties of the agent under regulatory quality control guidance.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jeffrey Henderson

Student:

Mohammad Ali Amini

Partner:

Nanology Labs Inc.

Discipline:

Pharmacy / Pharmacology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

The effect of the MyoStorm heated vibration ball on pain andperformance with an examination of underlying mechanisms

Foam rollers are popular devices used for training and rehabilitation and have been extensively investigated in the literature. Research has shown that foam rollers can increase range of motion, alleviate myofascial and muscle pain with no impairments and in some cases improvements in
subsequent muscular performance. Vibrating rollers have also been introduced but there are few studies investigating their effectiveness. Heat is an ubiquitous treatment modality used in therapy to increase blood flow and accelerate recovery. The MyoStorm meteor ball is a novel device which incorporates all three modalities (i.e. rolling, vibration and heat). It is unknown whether there are multiplicative effects of combining the three modalities. Hence, the objective of the present series of investigations will be to evaluate the effectiveness of these modalities in isolation and combination as incorporated with the MyoStorm meteor ball on range of motion, pain, muscle strength, power and endurance as well as muscle activation. Furthermore, possible changes in muscle architecture will be examined with ultrasound through B-mode imaging and shear wave elastography).

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Faculty Supervisor:

David G Behm;Duane C Button

Student:

Shahab Alizadeh

Partner:

ProActive Physiotherapy

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Impact of Lystek Process Treatment on Co-digestion of Food Wastes and Municipal Wastewater Biosolids

The problem is that currently food waste and municipal wastewater biosolids are produced in abundance, which necessitates a proper treatment rather than disposal to landfills, and increasing CO2 emissions. In this research proposal, the main goal is to enhance both biomethane production and biodegradability of organic solids by applying subsequent Lystek thermo-alkaline hydrolysis technology followed by anaerobic digestion/co-digestion (mixing different organic wastes at different mass ratios) of organic solids such as food waste and municipal wastewater biosolids.
In these two subsequent processes, organic solids will be converted first thermochemically to soluble readily biodegradable organics followed by biological conversion to biogas. The target is to produce highly stable, nutrient-rich products that can be used in land application for beneficial use, hence averting landfilling.

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Faculty Supervisor:

George Nakhla

Student:

Basem Haroun

Partner:

Lystek International Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Western University

Program:

Optimization of Computer Assisted Arrhythmia Intervention

The normal rhythmic beating of the heart is controlled by a set of electrical signals. When these signals are scrambled and the heart is no longer beating regularly, it produces a medical condition known as cardiac arrhythmia. There are several types of cardiac arrhythmias, the most common one being atrial fibrillation (AF) that affects more than 350,000 Canadians, which has far reaching impacts on the healthcare system and broader economy in the order of $3.6 billion/year. Currently clinical management of AF patients involves the use of catheter ablation, which is a procedure that applies energy to destroy heart tissue. In cases where patients have permanent AF, catheter ablation is not sufficient to correct the problem owing to the existence of other, unidentified sources. In this proposal, we are applying to develop a computational simulation technique so that we might better understand AF and develop patient specific strategies for treatment. We have assembled an interdisciplinary team of researchers to achieve this research objective, and have collaborated with Abbott Canada, the manufacturer of such ablation systems, to extend the value of our research findings, and to offer specific and unique training opportunities to our highly qualified personnel.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Damian Redfearn

Student:

Benjamin Cecchetto

Partner:

Abbott Canada

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Queen's University

Program:

A Data-driven Approach to Model Viscous Fingering in Imbibition vs. Drainage at the Pore Scale

After primary oil production stage, reservoir energy is depleted. At this stage, the reservoir needs to be re-energized through enhanced oil recovery techniques. In these techniques, an external fluid is injected into the reservoir to displace oil in place towards the production wells. Water is the most common fluid used in enhanced oil recovery processes. Parameters such as water viscosity, oil in place viscosity, reservoir rock wetting state, water injection velocity, etc. critically affect the water flow pathways during flow in a reservoir. This research aims to understand the effect of these parameters on the pattern of water flow in porous media. We apply microfluidic (pore scale) approach to visualize the water pathways and perform a sensitivity analysis to understand the effect of the mentioned parameters on the efficiency of water injection processes. We apply Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to model and understand the physics behind the pore scale observations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Peter Englezos;Bhushan Gopaluni

Student:

Danial Arab

Partner:

PERM

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Metamaterials for Selective Spatial Solidification

Light and heat have been used to manufacture objects layer by layer in additive manufacturing technologies. In this project, sound is used to create object by interacting with build material. Wide range of material such polymer, composites, glass, ceramic and metal can be manufactured and the produced part has functional properties. The project introduces an alternative route for creating objects and opens new doors for future research. The outcome of the project is used to create a new class of manufacturing machines that can create jobs and intellectual property to Canada. Moreover, the results will be published in peer-reviewed journals and patents.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Muthukumaran Packirisamy

Student:

Mohsen Habibi

Partner:

Xwave3D

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Feasibility Study for Wastewater Collection and Treatment System at Aubigny community

Aubigny is a small rural community where individuals are responsible for their septic systems. Being smaller lots and close to the Red River, the potential for environmental damage such as soil, surface and ground pollution could be there. If suitable wastewater treatment system could be installed in this community then there would also be potential for more residential development. The project will determine the feasibility of creation of a sustainable wastewater treatment system that could work for such a community and ensure environmental sustainability there. The study will assist to choose the appropriate wastewater system for the community for future development with confirming sustainable environment there.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Qiuyan Yuan

Student:

Tanvir Hasnine

Partner:

Rural Municipality of Morris

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

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