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Advanced Materials and Technologies for Medical Imaging Detectors and Techniques

The proposed Mitacs program will provide internships for six graduate (thesis-based MSc and PhD) students, and two Post-Doctoral Fellows (PDFs) in a competitive R&D environment at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute (TBRHRI) – Canada’s newest health research institute. Interns will be involved in research projects which aim to develop and commercialize the next generation of customized detectors to improve medical imaging applications, which are chosen on the basis of the demands of the healthcare system and commercial opportunities developed in the TBRHRI. In particular, interns will be working on novel imaging detector materials and technologies which will provide improvements in performance (superior image quality and diagnostic capabilities) for many clinical procedures including anatomical and functional diagnostic imaging as well as for image guided radiotherapy. 

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alla Reznik

Student:

Alam Khan

Partner:

Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Lakehead University

Program:

Accelerate

Spatial analysis of changing climate and the climate rating of Saskatchewan’s arable agricultural land for property assessment purposes

This project uses a large amount of geographic information and advanced computing technology to re-evaluate the influence of climate on the productivity of Saskatchewan’s agricultural land, which represents about 40% of all the cropland Canada. The intern will combine digital maps of soil, land use, crop yield, elevation, and historical weather observations. By exploring the statistical relationships among these layers of data, the intern will discover the environmental factors that determine the yield of 10 types of crops, and then assign a climate rating to each of the 296 rural municipalities in southern Saskatchewan. This project increases the capacity of ISM Canada to apply their expertise in data management and analysis to the many environmental and economic issues that involve weather and climate.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Sauchyn

Student:

Samantha Kerr

Partner:

ISM Canada

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Characterizing lytic bacteriophages against pathogenic E. coli: killing spectrum, efficacy in vivo, and genomic analysis

Bacterial pathogens of importance to animal health and food safety have major and global impacts on agriculture and food industries. There has been an increase in bacterial resistance to antimicrobials, and antibiotic use in livestock and poultry has been questioned due to likelihood of increased antimicrobial resistance. Alternative strategies to contend with bacterial pathogens within the food production chain are therefore needed. Lytic bacteriophages (phages) are bacteria-specific viruses that can lyse and kill their bacterial targets. One of the focuses of SyntBioLab Inc. is to develop applications to control bacterial pathogens by using phages. Escherichia coli is a major problem for food safety and animal health. In particular, in poultry (chickens and turkeys), avian pathogenic E. coli (APEC) is the predominant cause of respiratory and systemic infection. 

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Faculty Supervisor:

Charles Dozois

Student:

Kateryna Krylova

Partner:

SyntBioLab Inc

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Nutritional value of Mysis diluviana for the growth, development and reproduction of hatchery-reared salmonids

Mysis diluviana, a shrimp-like crustacean, is an invasive species in Okanagan Lake. As part of a strategy by the BC government to reduce the impact of this species on the natural lake ecosystem, Piscine Energetics Inc. has been harvesting Mysis from Okanagan Lake since 2000 and retails the harvested Mysis as fish food to the ornamental aquarium industry. There are indications that Mysis could also be an effective source of nutrition for rearing trout and salmon in hatcheries. If so, this could provide three important benefits: it could provide increased economic opportunities for the Mysis harvesting industry, help BC hatcheries transition away from fish foods containing unsustainable marine fish meal, and decrease the population of this invasive species in Okanagan Lake. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Louis Gosselin

Student:

Ravinder Sappal

Partner:

Piscine Energetics Inc

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Fisheries and wildlife

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Assessing cognitive load in cochlear implant users through short-term storage of speech

Cochlear implants are surgical implanted devices that allow deaf people to recover some form of hearing and understand speech, but current devices are limited, and the consequences of these limitations have not been fully explored. For example, there is a growing consensus that hearing loss interacts with cognitive systems. Yet, relatively little is known about the cognitive burden of CI users. The present project will develop a robust tool to measure the cognitive effort induced by the CI, and point towards the poor representation of voice pitch as one important cause for the increased listening effort and the reduced short-term memory. We eventually aim to develop a pitch-exaggeration algorithm in pseudo-real-time, which could be implemented by the partnering industry Oticon in the design of future CI processors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alexandre Lehmann

Student:

Yue Zhang

Partner:

Oticon Canada

Discipline:

Visual arts

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Thermal Analysis of Poly-V Belt Transmission System

Nowadays, automotive companies are seeking to use prospective robust, light-weight, anti-corrosive and cost-effective composites such as fibre reinforced polymer (FRP), instead of traditional materials like steel or aluminum alloy, to make their products more competitive in the market. The sponsor company in this project, Litens Automotive Group, is investigating the feasibility of adopting FRP to manufacture high torque capacity drive pulleys. However, comparing with a metal alloy, FRP exhibits a reduced material strength at the near engine high operating temperature, making the design of this pulley very challengeable. Moreover, time-consuming tests on expensive FRP drive pulley prototypes delay the design cycle and increase the research cost. Therefore, an analytical thermal analysis algorithm developed in this project for the design of FRP drive pulleys enables the product designers rapidly to determine thermal distributions of the FRP drive pulley and help them to optimize the pulley design.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kamran Behdinan

Student:

Xingchen Liu

Partner:

Litens Automotive

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Automotive and transportation

University:

Program:

Accelerate

New graphene thermoplastics nanocomposites with improved mechanical, electrical properties and EMI shielding effectiveness

In a prior project, promising results were obtained showing the possibility of using graphene/polymer composites as advanced materials having superior properties than the conventional carbon black loaded polymers. The composites obtained presented electrical conductivities with values of about 10-2 S/m when the percolation threshold was exceeded, an increase of more than 12 orders of magnitude with respect to the unloaded polymer. The goal of this project is to optimize these graphene/polymer composites, mainly graphene/thermoplastic composites, in order for them to be use for various applications, such EMI shielding, semi-conductive screens in power cables or stress grading material in high voltage equipment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nicole Demarquette

Student:

Emna Helal

Partner:

NanoXplore Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Nanotechnologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Designing quality control strategies to assess the self-assembly and biological stability of chitosan nanoparticles

In this grant, the consortium will develop new methods to characterize nanoparticles prepared with a proprietary polymer. This study will enable the fabrication and characterization of better performing nano-sized particles encapsulating therapeutic molecules, commonly called nanomedicines. This study will allow to monitor how the polymers self-assemble into nanoobjects under different conditions, and to study how the nanoparticles perform in various environments. The project will develop and validate methods to streamline the development of nanoparticles with a variety of characteristics. Eventually, this technology will translate into the development of a new generation of drugs to treat various important human ailments, notably cancer, antibiotic-resistance, and neurologic diseases.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nicolas Bertrand

Student:

Amrita Dikpati

Partner:

Ovensa Inc

Discipline:

Pharmacy / Pharmacology

Sector:

Nanotechnologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Development of new therapeutics for castration-resistant prostate cancer treatment

Castration-resistant prostate cancer is a late stage disease and many people die of it due to lack of effective therapeutic drugs. In the current project, we propose to develop new therapeutic drug a to specifically target CRPC’s common weak points, which are MCT4 and eIF4E gene’s proteint products that play very important roles in regulation of cancer cell’s energetic and protein translation pathways. The project aims to develop an antibody drug, an small molecule chemical drug and a nanoparticle drug to target MCT4 membrane protein and eIF4E transcription factor protein. If successful, the project will lead to new drug development for treating this deadly disease.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yuzhuo Wang

Student:

Faline Yang

Partner:

Pharmaplanter Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Visual arts

Sector:

Pharmaceuticals

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Impacts of once-through cooling on the aquatic environment

Many thermal power plants, including Bruce Power, rely on once-through cooling using water from the Great Lakes. The warmer water that is released back into the lake has the potential to impact temperature sensitive aquatic species that occupy the near shore water close to the discharges. The proposed research will investigate the genetic population structure of three fish species surrounding Bruce Power (lake whitefish, round whitefish, yellow perch), and study the impacts of varying water temperature on embryonic development and post-hatch fitness. This research will benefit the partner organization by furthering their understanding of the aquatic ecosystem surrounding Bruce Power and ensuring that current operations are not having a significant impact on fish survival and development.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Joanna Wilson

Student:

Carly Graham

Partner:

Bruce Power

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Energy

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Investigating the causes of asphaltenes formation during visbreaking of deasphalted oil

Canadian bitumen has high viscosity compared to conventional crude oils which unable its transportation to upgraders and refineries by pipeline. In order to improve its fluidity, bitumen is submitted to high temperatures that will allow the break of chemical bonds. This process is called visbreaking. Nevertheless, the product is unstable due to the presence of asphaltenes which can precipitate and cause clogging of equipment and olefins that can further polymerize and form gums upon storage. BituMaxTM process (developed by Nexen Energy Inc.) integrates visbreaking with deasphalting process, i.e., the feed is first deasphalted before visbreaking. However, it is observed the formation of asphaltenes during the process. In order to mitigate asphaltenes formation during BituMaxTM, it is necessary to first understand the nature of molecules and the chemical conversions that take place during the process that will ultimately lead to an increase in asphaltenes content. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Arno de Klerk

Student:

Glaucia Helena Carvalho do Prado

Partner:

Nexen Energy ULC

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Oil and gas

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Digitalizing Extractive Industries

The broad objectives of this research include: (1) to develop an accurate picture of the extent to which digital technologies have been adopted by extractive industries, (2) to understand factors that have impacted on the pace of digitalization, (3) to develop an understanding of how further digitalization could transform extractive industries and the communities and regions in which they operate, and (4) to provide guidance and advice to key stakeholders (industry, governments, institutions, communities) with respect to addressing the opportunities and challenges arising from digitalizatio

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ray Gosine

Student:

Thumeera Wanasinghe

Partner:

Petroleum Newfoundland & Labrador

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Oil and gas

University:

Program:

Accelerate

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