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Engineering - chemical / biological

Genomic methods for herbal supplement quality assurance

It is critical for consumers to be assured that Natural Health supplements being purchased commercially are of high quality and contain the ingredients as listed on labels. For regulatory agencies to make such assurances, it is important that third-party product testing be carried out to identify the presence of the appropriate botanicals and their active ingredients. This project will begin to address the need for standardized authenticated reference materials from which appropriate quality control tests can be developed. In collaboration with ISURA, Canada’s only independent natural health supplement and food product verification and certification organization, an intern will work to develop authenticated, open-source, botanical reference materials, in response to the needs of industry and government. This project is an essential element in order for Canadian natural health product suppliers to appropriately serve growers, manufacturers, retailers and consumers, and will provide critical information to Canadian regulatory agencies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jonathan Van Hamme

Student:

Afsana Islam

Partner:

ISURA

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Thompson Rivers University

Program:

Accelerate

Towards personalized surgical spine reconstruction post tumour resection

We aim to develop tools to assess patient outcomes following treatment and removal of bone metastases. We will identify markers for enhanced patient outcomes, so as to predict which patients may benefit from more aggressive treatments to better their quality of life. We also aim to use 3D printed bone implants to help in the treatment of patients with bone metastasis. These implants will serve as a local reservoir for the anticancer drugs that will improve bone regeneration while also preventing tumor recurrence. These agents have been shown to improve the efficacy of bone implants in severe bone fracture repair. Moreover, they have recently been shown to have direct anti-cancer activities. We plan to harness those beneficial activities to the fullest by obtaining local high doses of these drugs at the site of tumor resection that could not be achieved by oral or intravenous administration.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lisbet Haglund

Student:

Elie Akoury

Partner:

Johnson & Johnson Inc. Canada

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Radiation Modulated Nanomedicine Delivery

The current survival times for breast cancer patients with brain metastasis range from 2 to 16 months suggesting a strong need for improvements in their therapeutic care. Although radiation therapy is the standard of care for these patients, combination with chemotherapy has demonstrated promising therapeutic benefits. The hypothesis of this research program is based on the belief that optimizing combination of radiation and chemotherapy has the potential to significantly improve the treatment outcome for patients with breast cancers that have metastasized to the brain. Merrimack Pharmaceutical Inc. has developed a nanoparticle based chemotherapy approach which has shown improved therapeutic activity compared to conventional chemotherapy. In addition, it has shown highly promising results both primary and metastatic lesions in a Phase I clinical trial in patients with metastatic breast cancer. The research described in this proposal is aimed at using non-invasive imaging techniques to better understand the interplay of radiotherapy and nanomedicine-based chemotherapy in order to determine the optimal treatment regimen for brain metastases.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jinzi Zheng

Student:

Inga Fricke

Partner:

University of Toronto

Discipline:

Engineering - biomedical

Sector:

Nanotechnologies

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

The Impact of Renovations in Long Term Care Living Spaces on Residents with Dementia, their Families and the Staff that Care for Them

Riverview Health Centre (RHC) plans to renovate their special care units and grounds, which accommodate 60 residents with intermediate and advanced stages of dementia. The main purpose of this study is to examine the effects of the renovations on residents, family and staff using a multi-methods research approach and a multi-disciplinary team of researchers (i.e., architecture, sociology, kinesiology, clinical psychology, pharmacy, nutrition, nursing, and health sciences). Interns will be exposed to a wide variety of research methods as well as have the opportunity to work on a multi-disciplinary team. Interns will also learn about how to conduct research in a long term care setting and work with individuals with dementia. There is very little information about how renovations affect residents in long term care and even less information about how it affects residents with dementia. RHC will gain valuable information about the renovation and its effect on residents, family and staff.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michelle Porter

Student:

Katelyn Grisim

Partner:

Riverview Health Centre

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

The role of humpback whale predation on commercial fish population dynamics in British Columbia

Humpback whales show remarkable recovery after the impacts of commercial whaling, and their consumption of essential food resources could affect local herring and salmon populations. Little is known about the feeding ecology of humpback whales in BC waters, despite their increasing importance to fisheries and tourism. Both humpback whales and fish are vulnerable to prey depletion, and the public have a vested interest in the future of humpbacks and fisheries in BC. In this thesis, I will examine the distribution of prey consumption by humpback whales to assess how their continued recovery may influence the productivity of herring and salmon. Effective management of marine populations requires knowledge of their biological needs and public support of federal recovery strategies. Benefits to the Pacific Whale Watch Association and Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea include strong industry collaboration and leading scientific knowledge for translating clear answers to the public.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Francis Juanes

Student:

Rhonda Reidy

Partner:

Pacific Whale Watch Association

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Natural resources

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Automated Generation of Software Tools to Support Data Ingestion for Environmental Modelling and Monitoring

Environmental modelling and monitoring software systems, which are very important in assessing the effects of climate change, require open data from a large number of sources including all levels of government, NGOs such as watershed management authorities, consultants and business. This data needs to be brought together into internal databases and to be kept up-to-date to perform the required underlying computations. Collecting this data manually and keeping it current requires an incredible amount of error-prone manual labour. The goal of this project is to create a software system that will automatically collect and maintain the data and aggregate the data into the internal databases thereby removing the need for human intervention.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Donald Cowan

Student:

Sergey Savinov

Partner:

Centre for Community Mapping

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Multi-agent Quadrotor Control and Distributed Intelligence in GPS Denied Environments

Networks are ubiquitous in our world. In broad terms, a networked control system consists of sensors, actuators and controllers interconnected and coordinated through a communication network. Networked control with distributed intelligence can open new directions in the industry of robotic entertainment allowing for pursuer-evader games to be played with multiple robots. The research proposed here will give a first step in this direction. More especifically, it will address the control of multiple quadrotor drones communicating over a wireless network to track a group of robotic cars in response to real-time mission commands operating in environments without GPS (for example inside buildings). The proposed research combines networked control theory, distributed intelligence, and robotics and is supported on BLE technology to implement a robotic real-time pursuer-evader game using quadrotor UAVs as the pursuers and robotic cars as the evaders.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Luis Rodrigues

Student:

Mailis Gomes Rodrigues

Partner:

Echoer Canada Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Statistical and Machine Learning with Applications to a Hybrid Recommender System for Retail Data

We are in the process of creating and growing a team of researchers expert in the field of machine learning and data-mining. Ultimately, our aim is to create solutions to eliminate the need to manually define personalization strategies. We are in the process of signing partnership agreements with retailers capable of collecting large-scale datasets of customer behaviour. Through a data-sharing/consulting partnership we plan to perform research on the design of recommender systems customized for the data-sets available to brick and mortar retailers. These methods can be used in their physical and online loyalty programs as well as in their dynamical promotions/pricing strategies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sathish Gopalakrishnan

Student:

Hootan Rashtian

Partner:

Qi-Leap Analytics Inc

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Tumor engineering of biomaterial based cancer models for drug screening

The intern will use the company’s proprietary biomaterials to create tumors using cancer cells. These tumors can be used as an alternative to animal testing for cancer drugs. These cancer models will cost a fraction of the cost of animal models and can be tested using existing pharmaceutical techniques and equipment. The intern will develop a process to create tumors, then test existing drugs on the model to see how it compares to human and animal testing results. This research will allow the company to commercialize their biomaterials in the pharmaceuticals industry using the processes created in the project. The biomaterials and reagents used in in-vitro cancer drug screening are a $3.5 Billion market, and this research will help the company gain market share in the industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hector Budman

Student:

Ali Nikdel

Partner:

9215581 Canada Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Freeze-drying of antibiotic vials: monitoring and optimizing process trajectories on an industrial scale

There has been an increased use of freeze-drying in the pharmaceutical industry over the past few decades. This step converts a liquid product into a solid one without compromising its integrity, thus prolonging its shelf life. The monitoring and optimization of this process is commonly done by trial-and-error, leading to product quality control issues. Therefore, the implementation of new monitoring tools in this process could allow a better understanding and control. However, the monitoring of freeze-drying process faces some problems in the application, mainly due to non-uniformity of the product in the freeze-dryer. The combined use of non-invasive techniques to monitor temperature, pressure, atmosphere composition seems promising. The objective of this project is therefore to develop tools and methods to monitor an industrial freeze-drying process. This work will be carried out in collaboration with a pharmaceutical company.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ryan Gosselin

Student:

Mohammed Azheruddin

Partner:

Pfizer Canada Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Pharmaceuticals

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Malicious Traffic Predictive Indicators in Content Delivery Networks: a Big Data Analytics Approach

Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) represent the up-to-date standard to transfer data through on-growing Internet. They are designed to manage traffic streams to avoid network problems. Despite the fact that CDNs attempt to satisfy security requirements (authentication, data privacy and integrity), they face rising innovative threats, observable in the cyber-space. The main objective of this project is to design, implement and test new methods to detect and prevent maliciousness in CDNs. We aim at building an alternative solution to classical Web Application Firewalls (WAFs). We intend to leverage new technologies based on the big data analytics using network traffic streams. The project objectives fall into the use of big data analytical framework to extract key features from CDNs’ logs to identify existing and new cyber-threats. Additionally, we intend to use the specificities of Telecom networks such as the availability of user IDs and flow control in EPC networks to further complete our approach. As being one of the key player in CDNs’ market, the partner organization has a high interest to integrate a data analytical approach to corroborate security in such networks.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mourad Debbabi

Student:

Amine Boukhtouta

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Elevate

Development of new seaweed based plant biostimulant products and understanding their mode of action

Plant biostimulant is a new class of agricultural input that has gained importance and wide acceptance in the last few years. Acadian Seaplants Limited, a marine biotechnology company, manufactures liquid and powdered Ascophyllum nodosum extract plant biostimulants. To maintain the leadership in plant biostimulants ASL has embarked on developing new A. nodosum based biostimulatns. This project will focus on new product development by adopting novel seaweed processing technologies, creating blends of seaweed extracts and functional ingredients. Further, more importantly, the physiological and molecular mode of action of the most promising products will be studied that will facilitate marketing of the new product(s).This project will train at eight post-doctoral fellows, three Ph.D. graduate students and two M.Sc. graduate students providing them with a unique opportunity to interact with industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Balakrishnan Prithiviraj

Student:

Pushp Shukla

Partner:

Acadian Seaplants Limited

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

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