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13270 Completed Projects

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Engineering - chemical / biological

Positive pombe: engineering anti-depressant molecules in fission yeast

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased depression and anxiety in Canada, adding to the current opioid drug dependency crisis. Mental health supports can be used with drug options to relieve symptoms and promote better health. Some cases of depression are resistant to treatment, and alternatives are needed that bring patients relief. Psilocybin is a compound found in “magic mushrooms”. Psilocybin is a highly effective anti-depressant; it is also non-addictive, and less toxic than many medications including caffeine and alcohol. Psilocybin is currently a restricted compound in Canada, that has been approved for treatment-resistant depression and end of life care. Medicinal psilocybin is harvested from mushrooms; this can have a wide variety in quality and use of the product as a medicine. We are making yeast strains that produce a safe and controlled source of psilocybin. We will make proteins in yeast that convert amino acids into psilocybin precursors; yeast is a fast-growing and safe drug source. Our work will be done in compliance with the Government of Canada restrictions and paperwork.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sarah Sabatinos

Student:

Kyle Cheung

Partner:

Incubate Innovate Network of Canada

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Ryerson University

Program:

Use of an alternative source of dietary nitrogen on amino acid requirements and utilization in growing pigs

Determining methods to improve nutrient utilization in pigs is critical to improving the environmental, social, and economic sustainability of pork production in Canada. The objective of this project is to examine the use of an alternative source of dietary nitrogen and its impact on amino acid requirements and utilization in growing pigs. In disseminating results of this project, Gowans will achieve its mandate of providing novel nutrition information its client base for the benefit of the commercial swine operations. This will allow for continual improvement with which GFC can provide nutrition advice and will have a direct impact at the farm level.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Daniel Allan Columbus

Student:

Miranda Buchinski

Partner:

Gowans Feed Consulting

Discipline:

Animal science

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Determining the antidepressant effect of 2-bromo-LSD (TD-0148A)

We would like to determine whether a modified version of LSD (TD-0148A), which does not induce hallucinations, has antidepressant effects that can be applied to patients with depressive disorders. We will investigate whether TD-0148A can change the physical structure of neurons, as other antidepressants do. Furthermore, we will use an animal model to determine whether TD-0148A can reverse the negative effects of chronic stress, whish is a leading cause of depression in people. These findings can represent a breakthrough in depression treatment, as TD-0148A has a better safety profile compared to LSD and other drugs that induce hallucinations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Argel Aguilar Valles

Student:

Vern Lewis

Partner:

BetterLife Pharma Inc

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Examining access to and use of internet and risk of social isolation during COVID-19 pandemic among both younger and older adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Manitoba

The use of technology is considered as a potential solution to cope with social isolation particularly during the strict restrictions of a pandemic (Government of Canada, 2020). The proposed study is aimed at examining access to and use of internet and risk of social isolation during COVID-19 pandemic among both younger and older adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We will conduct an online survey to collect the required data. All Manitoba adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities will be invited to participate in the study. Based on the study findings, recommendations will be made to overcome the barriers and enhance social connectedness for Manitoba adults living with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shahin Shooshtari

Student:

Faraz Asadpour

Partner:

St. Amant Foundation

Discipline:

Epidemiology / Public health and policy

Sector:

Health care and social assistance

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Semi-Supervised Learning for NLP Text Classification

Insurance companies collect huge volumes of text on a daily basis and through multiple channels, which can be used for lots of different analyses, including identifying “cause of death”. It is difficult to overestimate the importance of an insurance company’s need to understand the facts and circumstances surrounding an insured individual’s death. These facts, including the manner and cause of death, along with other data about the decedent, are critical to an insurance company’s ability to measure mortality rates. Considering the huge volume of the data, it is very time-consuming and manual data labelling by human experts is barely possible. The main objective of the proposed research is to develop a semi-supervised model that best suits the unstructured text data. The goal is to develop and validate a generalizable unsupervised deep Natural Language Processing (NLP) model to label the data, identify, and classify “cause of death” from unstructured obituary text.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hadis Karimipour

Student:

Amir Namavar Jahromi

Partner:

Munich Reinsurance Company

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

Trusted Records in TAPESTRY Approach

New America’s Future of Property Rights program aims to create a solution for people all over the world to achieve their basic human right “to own, rent, or otherwise occupy property” (Panfil & Mellon, 2019). What is denying a large part of populations their basic human right is the “lack of proper documents” (Panfil & Mellon, 2019). To solve this important issue, the program proposes using emerging technology such as Self-Sovereign Identity or SSI to harness an abundance of data that already exists in a way that is “trustworthy, secure, and privacy preserving” (Panfil & Mellon, 2019).
Peer Social, whose goal is to build a secure communication and data-sharing solution using a decentralized architecture and encrypted ledger technology to give users complete control of how they are social, is interested in learning about this approach and the rationale behind it. They are also interested in learning about what trust could mean in records created through blockchain technology and especially through self-sovereign identity and what characteristics it must have to satisfy the United Nations requirements, and whether these characteristics can be converted into a point system, similar to credit card scores.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Victoria Lemieux

Student:

Sadaf Ahmadbeigi

Partner:

Peer Social

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Learning from the Experiences of Recovery College Stakeholders to Inform the Implementation and Evaluation of an Innovative Model of Mental Health and Substance Use Care in Vancouver

The overarching objective of the RC project is to generate evidence to support the successful development, implementation, and evaluation of the Recovery College model in the Vancouver Coastal Health region of British Columbia. Research conducted by interns on this project will include incorporating lessons learned from current and previous Recovery Colleges in other areas of Canada and internationally, laying the groundwork for the development of implementation and evaluation frameworks for two (2) pilot programs of the Recovery College model. The research will help determine the impact of peer and professional co-designed, co-produced, and co-delivered educational programs have on mental health and substance use clients’ overall health outcomes (e.g., health; quality of life), as well as on peers, professionals, and students at the college, and on health service utilization.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Regina Casey;Simon Davis;Michael Ungar;John Higenbottam

Student:

Joseph O'Rourke;Tracy Windsor

Partner:

Canadian Mental Health Association

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Health care and social assistance

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Applying Machine Learning Methods to Air Emission Monitoring

Alberta’s Oil and Gas (O&G) sector plays a critical role in Canada meeting its commitment to the Paris Climate Change Agreement. However, few studies published the actual operation data for extraction operations (schemes), especially fuel consumption data to accurately project greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for development and expansion of O&G projects. In this study, we propose to
1) develop a GHG quantification tool using data science techniques in an integrated development environment – Jupyter Notebook with Python programming language to support aggregated oil and gas operations for their regulatory reporting,
2) apply knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) process to in situ oil sands extraction to discover patterns of energy consumption, GHG emissions, and oil production using unsupervised machine learning techniques.
3) Analyze carbon costs to the oil and gas extraction.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ke Du

Student:

Minxing Si

Partner:

VL Energy

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Autotaxin inhibition as a novel treatment to improve outcomes from chemotherapy and radiotherapy for cancer patients

We will investigate a new approach to improving the treatment of cancer patients. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy lose effectiveness and produce side-effects that are deleterious. For example, the development of scar tissue restricts the use of radiotherapy for several types of cancer. We will study a new type of drug, which will be supplied by our partner, that should decrease the formation of scar tissue after radiotherapy and also improve the effectiveness of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. The information gain should accelerate the introduction of this new approach and improve the outcomes of cancer patients.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Frank Wuest

Student:

Zelei Yang

Partner:

Brindley Associates Incorporated

Discipline:

Biochemistry / Molecular biology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluating the impact of training on dysfunctional exercise management on the knowledge and self-efficacy of eating disorder clinicians

Between 22-81% of individuals with eating disorders (ED) engage in dysfunctional exercise (DEX). Engagement in DEX predicts relapse, illness chronicity, and length of hospital stay, as well as increases cardiovascular and metabolic risk. Conversely, healthy exercise engagement and education during treatment has been linked to improved ED outcomes. Ultimately leading to lower rates of relapse, time spend in hospital, and illness chronicity. The Safe Exercise at Every Stage (SEES) guideline has been developed to support the safe prescription of exercise in ED populations. However, no studies to date have evaluated how clinicians benefit from SEES training. Thus, we will train staff on administering the SEES guideline and subsequently evaluate the feasibility, acceptability and outcomes of a implementing a novel clinical tool into ED treatment. Ultimately, this will provide clinicians with a tool to manage this otherwise unaddressed area of ED treatment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rachel Calogero

Student:

Danika Quesnel

Partner:

Alsana

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Health care and social assistance

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Fish use of restored and natural salt marshes in Maritime Canada

Salt marshes are coastal wetlands that provide many ecosystem services. Many fish species are known to use salt marshes as habitat at some point throughout their lives including those that hold commercial and recreational value. Depending on their location, salt marshes may experience varying degrees of tidal flooding, not only making more areas of the marsh accessible to fish but resulting in excess particulate and dissolved organic matter being drawn out with the ebbing tide. This organic matter may provide a nutrient subsidy to nearshore environments thus indirectly benefitting fish that do not directly use salt marshes. Maritime Canada holds a long history of salt marsh conversion to other land uses especially agriculture. There is now growing interest in restoring salt marshes to regain the services that they provide including those relating to fish and fisheries. Ducks Unlimited Canada and partners have initiated a number of salt marsh restoration projects throughout Maritime Canada, and are planning new restoration initiatives, with goals of reverting farmland and freshwater impoundments to salt marsh. The intern will assess fish use of salt marshes as well as salt pool communities in natural and restored marshes in the Bay of Fundy and southern Gulf of Lawrence.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Myriam Barbeau

Student:

Kiana Endresz

Partner:

Ducks Unlimited Canada

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Accelerate

Prediction of NOx formation by a DC Plasma Torch

Industries using fossil fuels as their energy source are contributing to global warming as the required energy for their processes is supplied by combusting fossil fuels. CO2, a greenhouse gas, is a products of combustion. Using electricity generated by hydropower as the heat source may eliminate CO2 emission. One of the commercially available electric heaters is the direct-current plasma torch, where the gas is heated to high temperatures. Because air is readily available and free, it is used as the primary plasma forming gas. Although this type of torch does not produce CO2, it produces nitrogen oxides (NOx), considered a pollutant. In this project, a detailed numerical model will be developed to predict NOx formation of DC plasma toch, and address the existing challenges in minimizing the NOx formation at the source, and find the optimum conditions for minimizing NOx emission. The model will be validated experimentally.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Javad Mostaghimi

Student:

Elham Dalir

Partner:

PyroGenesis Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

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