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Evaluation of interventions for improving maternal, newborn, and child health outcomes: Systematic literature reviews and network meta-analyses

Poor nutrition, sanitation and hygiene, and infectious diseases during pregnancy and early childhood can lead to poor growth and development that can be everlasting negative effects on the child. A large number of clinical trials have been conducted, but as many interventions have not been compared against each other, it is unclear what interventions are effective and should be provided over different life stages of the child. Instead of pairwise meta-analysis, which has been done in the existing literature reviews, this project aims to utilize network meta-analysis (NMA), an analytical approach that utilizes all of the available evidence, direct or indirect comparisons. This intern and MTEK Sciences are partnering up to perform comprehensive reviews on interventions aimed to improve maternal and child health outcomes. The reviews will be analyzed with NMAs by statisticians at MTEK to inform Canadian and international policies on maternal and child health.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Richard Lester

Student:

Jay Park

Partner:

MTEK Sciences Inc

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Using a Blockchain Cryptocurrency to enable an Educational Business Ecosystem

This project is to build the educational peer-to-peer infrastructure for young high schoolers or athletes to access services and goods from the experts in the respective field. For example, organizing or providing all the details for any sport’s session conducted by skilled instructor, and the system for instructor to be able to verify the session’s worth in a long run via feedbacks. In order to get this system more efficient, first a cryptocurrency “wisdom pearls” will be created on peer-to-peer private network to mitigate the financial costs of payment gateways and bank. Second, an event based ticketing system to increase the awareness and participation of Canadian youth to increase their skills.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ralph Deters

Student:

Tanvi Jain

Partner:

Elite Academy

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Education

University:

Program:

Accelerate

AVIO 1603: Cosmic radiation In-flight Measurement and real-time analysis for Electronic Systems and passenger protection (CIMES)

Due to increasing miniaturization, future systems will be made of components that are more energy efficient and at the same time more sensitive to external radiation. To ensure that future systems remain protected against cosmic radiation and single events, aircraft and flight systems manufacturers must collect in-flight data for cosmic radiations and develop a global strategy for real-time processing of this data to provide pilots, crew and aircraft operations, with appropriate information to help them make the right decisions in case of unusually high cosmic radiation exposure. AVIO-1603 is intended to develop an on-flight response to the challenge of cosmic radiation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Adam Skorek

Student:

Sadia Assad

Partner:

Bombardier Aeronautic Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Aerospace and defense

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Effectiveness of EarlyDetect, a psychiatric assessment program, using a mobile APP interface – Phase 2

Mental health illness cost over $50 billion in the Canadian economy annually, and is prevalent at workplace. The cost and prevalence of menial health illness can be greatly mitigated with early detection and intervention. EarlyDetect is a program developed by Chokka Center for Integrative Health for convenient, accurate and reliable self-assessment of mental illness, and has been validated in a pen-and-paper form. The current project is to develop a fully functional mobile APP version of the EarlyDetect, and to study whether testing through a mobile APP will generate the same high-quality diagnosis from the pen-and-paper version of the program.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jason Harley

Student:

Yang Liu

Partner:

Chokka Center for Integrative Health

Discipline:

Education

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Development of an automated system for counting fetal and maternal red blood cells in clinical KB Test

The Kleihauer-Betke (KB) test is the standard method for quantitating fetal-maternal hemorrhage in maternal care. The critical component of the KB test is the counting of fetal and maternal red blood cells (RBC). However, manual counting still the dominant clinical method for KB test. Manual RBC counting takes ~20 minutes. In a standard procedure, a lab technologist, looking through the eyepieces of a microscope, manually counts about 2,000 RBC and calculates the fetal-maternal RBC ratio. As is common with tedious manual operations, cost, human error and inconsistent subjective judgement are always a concern. To tackle the problem, researchers from University of Toronto and from Sigma Bio-Instrument Inc. are working together to develop an automated cell counting system, which is important for Sigma Bio-Instrument Inc. to remain competitive in the healthcare sector, but also to demonstrate the company’s leadership position in developing health related products. 

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yu Sun

Student:

Ji Ge

Partner:

Sigma Bio-Instrument Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Skin Cancer Imaging, Screening, and Diagnosis

This project involves the research and development of a new skin examination system for Elucid Labs Inc. (Elucid) to add to its imaging and diagnostic capabilities in the area of skin cancer, disease, and conditions. Elucid is building a comprehensive system that identifies and tracks a patients’ moles to perform screening and risk assessment. Moreover, Elucid will be developing a multimodal microscopy system that may prove to be useful in streamlining the histopathology process pertaining to skin biopsies. The overall goal of this project is to provide a comprehensive system that can provide timely information to a specialist or a family physician in a consistent and easy manner without subjectivity.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Clausi

Student:

Helmut Neher

Partner:

Elucid Labs

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

The effects of Radical Plus® consumption on exercise capacity in humans

Muscle fatigue and associated perceived exhaustion are among the main barriers to physical activity and training adherence, which directly contributes to the spread obesity and cardio-metabolic diseases in Canada. While several dietary supplements claiming anti-fatigue properties exist on the market, a large number have not gone through robust scientific testing. The Radical Plus® product from Carpe-Diem Inc. is a liquid dietary supplement containing marine collagen, blueberry extract, and polyphenols. This food supplement is also purported to reduce exercise-induced stress and enhance endurance. While blueberry and collagen hydrolysate, taken independently, have demonstrated benefits to health and exercise capacity, the potential ergogenic impact of Radical Plus® has not yet been studied in humans. This study will therefore investigate the effects of a Radical Plus® consumption on exercise tolerance, physiological and perceived stress, and recovery in heathy humans. These results will confirm the product’s potency and benefit the partner organisation business health.

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Faculty Supervisor:

François Billaut

Student:

Emma Galbraith

Partner:

Carpe-Diem Inc

Discipline:

Visual arts

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

The Invention and Early History of IMAX

IMAX is a Canadian-born invention that has had little scholarly investigation despite its continued commercial success. The importance of this research project stems from the lack of scholarly research about the beginnings of IMAX as a Canadian-born invention and its place within the history media technology. In celebration of IMAX’s 50th anniversary, The Public Access Collective, through their project entitled XL-Outer Worlds, will be commissioning five Canadian artists to create new large-format films in order to foreground the Invention of IMAX, explore the technological and aesthetic imaginaries of the early years of the Invention. In 2019 XL-Outer Worlds will be showcasing the commissioned films at Cinesphere (the first permanent IMAX theatre) in Toronto in addition to other IMAX venues across Canada. 

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Allison

Student:

Aimée Mitchell

Partner:

Public Access

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Media and communications

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Mathematical Foundations of Hybrid Quantum Technologies and Quantum Leap Africa

We are on the doorstep of a quantum revolution in modern science, perhaps most significantly in the development of new types of information and communication technologies, and Canada has positioned itself as a world leader in these efforts. This proposal includes an expansion of research into quantum information and communication by the University of Guelph’s David Kribs, in collaboration with the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), which has identified quantum information as an area of fundamental importance to its network. The internships held by Kribs’ students under this project will support the AIMS-Canada chapter in its mission goals of partnership building and public engagement, and include fieldwork time spent at AIMS centres in Africa in support of its quantum information science development.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Kribs

Student:

Comfort Mintah

Partner:

AIMS-Canada

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Hardware Support and Heterogeneous Compilation for P4

Today’s data-center network services cover a broad spectrum that evolve rapidly which means that regularly new services need to be deployed in production networks in a timely manner. Using network programmability, a network programmer can write a precise specification of what the network behaviour should be, and this specification is translated by a compiler and executed on the hardware. The goal of the project is to allow this programmability to include automatically leveraging hardware to improve performance. The results of the project will help improve the partner’s competitiveness in this market.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pierre Langlois

Student:

Thibaut Stimpfling

Partner:

Kaloom Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Testing, evaluation and development of a commercial protocol to differentiate hPSC-derived pancreatic progenitors into insulin-producing ?-cells in 2D monolayers and/or 3D culture systems

The generation of functional ?-cells from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) for cell replacement therapy and disease modeling of diabetes is a strongly investigated area. Recent scientific breakthroughs have enabled derivation of large quantities of human pancreatic ?-like cells in the laboratory, but the protocols are currently not consistent or optimized for cells of various genetic backgrounds. We aim to develop a commercial kit to differentiate hPSCs into ?-cells with reproducible efficiencies between multiple cell lines. We anticipate for such a kit to support researchers in robustly generating cells for studying human pancreatic development, dissecting molecular pathways and gene functions impaired in disease, screening cells for drug discovery studies, and investigating the regenerative potential of ?-cells for the treatment of diabetes. We also believe such a product will pave the way for the design of a product that can support clinical trials and the scale-up of biomaterials for transplantation purposes in humans.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Timothy Kieffer

Student:

Mitchell Braam

Partner:

StemCell Technologies

Discipline:

Visual arts

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Bipolar Membranes for Electrochemical Technologies

Electrochemical water splitting into hydrogen and oxygen gas is a technology of growing importance in the clean energy storage and conversion sector. While this technology has been operating successfully for decades using liquid electroytes, emerging technology uses membranes to provide physical separation of the cathode and anode compartments and thereby separation of the product gases, while allowing ions to flow between electrolytes in order for the electrochemical reactions to occur. The membranes used in electrolyzers are typically acidic, proton exchange membranes (PEM), e.g., Nafion. Alkaline membranes have recently emerged as potential replacements because alkaline conditions allow inexpensive electrocatalysts to be employed in the cathode. TO BE CONT”D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Eikerling

Student:

Sogol Borjian Borojeni

Partner:

Ionomr Innovations Inc

Discipline:

Chemistry

Sector:

Alternative energy

University:

Program:

Elevate

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