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Engineering - chemical / biological

Research and Development of Urinary Metabolome-based Personalized Health Assessment for Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Autism and Environmental Exposure – Year Two

Despite the growing interests and publications in metabolomics, there is a significant gap between what have been found through scientific studies and what have actually been applied in clinical practice and preventative healthcare. This proposed project aims to fill this gap by addressing two major causes; 1) lack of utilization in existing metabolomics data and published findings, and 2) lack of an accessible tool to collect samples for metabolomics data at home. The first issue is addressed by text mining of published studies and online databases using machine learning techniques. This is followed by a development of multivariate statistical models based on the extracted data. To address the second issue, this project also focuses on a development of a collection kit and suitable analytical methods for metabolites found in urine, a biological specimen that can be collected non-invasively in large volume at home. This will expand current capability of Molecular You Corporation to acquire new information of human health and perform early diagnosis of various conditions of interest, such as autism and inflammatory bowel disease. This collaboration between the personalized digital health company and the major metabolomics research group is expected to bring impacts of metabolomics research efforts into society.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David S Wishart

Student:

Mai Yamamoto

Partner:

Molecular You Corporation

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Health care and social assistance

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Elevate

Optimization of an Engineering Information Retrieval System using Topic Models and Knowledge Graphs

The oil and gas industry is in the top five largest sectors in the world in terms of dollar value, generating an estimated $3.32 trillion in revenue annually. It is estimated that 40-60% of workforce in the oil and gas industry will retire in the next five years, so preserving the knowledge stored in documents is an important objective. The industry partner (WESI — Waterford Energy Services Inc.) has been developing a document management system to support this objective. In this project we focus on enhancing IR system for historical well reports by exploring different topic modelling and ontology building approaches. Topic modelling (TM) has a wide range of applications in domains such as social media, microblogging data, historical documents, biomedical data, etc. However, the practice has shown that there is no “one-fits-all” algorithm. Standard models usually do not perform well in domain- specific settings and our goal is to evaluate and develop recommendations for best-fitting TM algorithms for the well reports.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Vlado Keselj

Student:

Goutham Narravula

Partner:

Waterford Energy Services Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Developing computation tools for the rational design of cyclic peptide therapeutics

The majority of drugs that enter the market are discovered by screening millions of random chemical compounds until a desired effect is achieved. With the recent explosion in available biological data and raw computing power, it is now possible to develop drugs through bottom-up design rather than trial-and-error testing. Bottom-up drug design has the potential to lower R&D costs, improve success rates and reduce therapeutic side effects. ProteinQure aims to achieve these goals by designing peptide therapeutics computationally. Peptides are modular molecules that can be designed to have a desired effect on a disease target. The purpose of this project is to develop computational design tools for peptide macrocycles–a constrained class of peptides which has strong therapeutic potential, but limited design tools. The tools developed in this project will improve the effectiveness of peptide design pipelines at ProteinQure, thus contributing to the development of rationally-designed drugs in the future.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Murray Junop

Student:

Robert Szabla

Partner:

ProteinQure

Discipline:

Biochemistry / Molecular biology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE)-based Framework for Net-Zero Home Construction- Wilden Living Lab (Phase II)

The proposed study will focus on extending the Wilden Living Lab (WLL) Research Program by constructing a net-zero house (as the third house of the program) with new material combinations and construction practice. A post occupancy evaluation will be conducted to identify cost-effective material selection tools for building energy-efficient detached homes. Accordingly, a net-zero house will be built in collaboration with the partners, and the user behavioral data will be monitored and assessed for the next 3 years. The partners can utilize research findings to deploy necessary energy-efficiencies and best management practices within their community and beyond. The WLL online platform can be used to push research results to the industry and enhance the knowledge of the local and provincial construction industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shahria Alam;Kasun Hewage;Rehan Sadiq;Mohammad Khalad Hasan

Student:

Mohammad Kamali;Meraj Rubayat Kamal

Partner:

FortisBC

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Other

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Opportunities for Sino-Canadian Collaboration in Global Health Governance and Multilateral Pandemic Response

The coronavirus pandemic has elevated global health governance from a “low politics” position in foreign policy practice to an economic and security priority of international importance. Conventional foreign policy approaches to pandemic management have proven ineffective in the time of Covid-19, as states struggle to fulfil public health obligations in an increasingly globalized world. Canada’s inability to contain and manage the coronavirus is further complicated by its challenge of navigating a global order shifting to multipolarity as a middle power with close ties to the United States. This project will review recent epidemics and pandemics to determine the limitations of conventional foreign policy approaches in managing highly contagious viruses following the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. It will suggest the advancement of global health as a non-traditional security (NTS) issue, and identify realistic opportunities for improved Sino-Canadian health diplomacy. The project will address political-economic factors un/favourable to effective health diplomacy as a sub-objective to strengthen its findings.
The partner organization, the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy, will benefit from the publication of a rigorous research report on a topic at the forefront of nearly all current foreign policy issues. Findings of this project will be publicly available to the Canadian foreign policy research community. IPD welcomes the opportunity to forge a relationship with the University of Waterloo and Balsillie School of International Affairs and enter more collaborative projects that benefit students.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hongying Wang

Student:

Bailey Cordrey

Partner:

Institute for Peace & Diplomacy

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Advancing an Intelligent Transportation Data Platform and Environmental Sensing to Promote Sustainable Cities

Transportation services, ranging from public buses to private logistic fleets, could benefit significantly from the introduction of Roger’s 5G wireless networks. This project has a primary objective to support UBC’s efforts to achieve its 2050 GHG emission reduction goals with emphasis on reduction of GHG and air pollutant emissions from transportation services.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Naomi Zimmerman;Mahmudur Fatmi;Carson Woo;Anas Chaaban

Student:

Surya Dhulipala;James Hindson;Bijoy Saha;Zhenyu (Charlus) Zhang

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Access to Urban First Nations Wellness Services

Using Indigenous methods including storytelling and arts, the research will explore the complexities of the Indigenous population in British Columbia; narrowing the scope to specific programming in an Urban community on Vancouver Island. The research question regards whether First Nations people that live off-reserve have adequate access to health services. This is based on the health inequities for Indigenous people across Canada. By doing this work, Tillicum Lelum Aboriginal Friendship Centre can have scholarly material to disseminate in order to raise awareness about the system’s inequities for Indigenous health services as well as have a program impact assessment to share with local partners. Finally, the art-based component can assist with possible revenue for early years’ programs in the future.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Siomonn Pulla

Student:

Courtney Defriend

Partner:

Tillicum Lelum Aboriginal Friendship Centre

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Royal Roads University

Program:

Accelerate

Flow control and efficiency: Improvement of fluid-driven actuators to build soft gloves for rehabilitation

The current project aims at designing a soft-robotic wearable glove which is applicable for rehabilitation of patients with loss of motor function in one or both hands. The wearable glove takes advantage of a set of different fluid-driven actuators. In order to design the actuators, flow control technique and also combine a set of actuators to use in the wearable glove, it is required to precisely analyze the fluid-solid interaction (FSI) between the actuator flexible body and the driving fluid. For this purpose, a computational module will be developed and used to analyze the fluid flow motion and FSI in the fluid-driven actuator and design a set of controllable actuators used in a wearable glove. The functionality of the developed computational module will be validated through comparison of basic benchmark test cases and also laboratory results obtained in the company. Then, it will be used to design and analyze the final product which is going to be a wearable soft robotic rehabilitation glove.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kourosh Zareinia

Student:

Mohammad Saeedi

Partner:

Tactile Robotics Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Ryerson University

Program:

Accelerate

Assessment of soil quality and mycorrihzal communities and their relationship to the recovery of forest plant communities after wildfire in interior British Columbia

In collaboration with the Nadleh Whut’en and Stellat’en First Nations and SERNbc, researchers from the University of Northern British Columbia will look at the effects of wildfire on soil quality and mycorrhizal fungi abundance. Soil quality will be evaluated on the ability to promote plant growth by assessing available nutrients, soil texture and other physical properties. Fungal diversity will be evaluated in both the soil and the roots of established species. These ecosystem elements will be compared among low, moderate, and high severity burns, along with unburned areas. This information will provide insights into the recovery of culturally significant plant species and possible limiting factors to their recovery, to guide land managers in restoration efforts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lisa Wood

Student:

Stephanie Wilford

Partner:

Society for Ecosystem Restoration in Northern British Columbia

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Northern British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Enhanced Graph Convolutional Networks using Local Structural Information

Over the past few years, Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in machine learning tasks on graph data and have been widely applied to many real-world applications across different fields, such as traffic prediction, user behavior analysis, and fraud detection. However, networks in the real world are often with heterogeneous degree distributions, such as power-law. This means that the function of nodes with various degrees can vary significantly, with high-degree nodes playing a crucial role in information spread and other spreading phenomena such as message passing. Current GCNs do not consider the roles of nodes with different degrees during the training process, which could influence the performance of GCNs. In this project, we aim at constructing an enhanced GCNs to involve the degree distribution information of the graph to achieve a better performance compared to the current GCNs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yuanzhu Chen

Student:

Zhihao Dong

Partner:

Verafin Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

S’oh Sin geez (Breathing Properly): Optimizing COPD Virtual Care in First Nations Communities

COPD is a lung disease characterized by shortness of breath, reduced activity tolerance, and poor quality of life. First Nations people have a high prevalence of this condition. People with COPD are encouraged to take an active role in managing their health, but this is challenging for people living in remote or rural locations. To improve disease management and access to care, many First Nations communities have turned to telehealth systems. However, many systems are primarily video-conferencing systems to enable live conversations between patient and practitioner. Biometric monitoring increases the capacity of telehealth by regularly measuring and transmitting important health information (such as medication use) to health providers. However, the use of biometric monitoring to enhance virtual care in First Nations communities has not been adequately investigated and may be considered intrusive. The goal of this project is to explore the acceptability, feasibility, and relevant research needs related to the implementation of COPD biometric monitoring into an existing First Nations telehealth system.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pat Camp

Student:

Debora Melissa Moecke Petry

Partner:

Agartee Technology

Discipline:

Physics / Astronomy

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Developing A Drug-Protein Interactome for Identifying Potential Drug Targets In-situ

Our method reveals the interaction landscape of a given drug. We will generate a two-part biosensor inside living cells. The first part involves a genetically encoded reactive ‘beacon’. The second part is the drug of interest, synthetically modified with complementary reactivity to the beacon. When present together in cells, both parts chemically combine to form a chimeric ‘drug-beacon’, which will then report on the local protein environment of the derivatized drug by using proteomics. It can be applied to drug-treatment regimens on cells isolated from different patients, as part of personalized-drug discovery programs. With the successful outcome of this project, partner organization will get to benefit from the commercialization of this method by upscaling this technology to include more classes of drugs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gagan Gupta

Student:

Fatima Lukmani

Partner:

Incubate Innovate Network of Canada

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Ryerson University

Program:

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