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Engineering - chemical / biological

Discovery and characterization of a new platform of drugs to address multi-drug resistance in pathogenic bacteria

The evolving resistance of pathogenic (bad) bacteria to antibiotics is already causing a large number of illnesses and deaths not only in Canada but throughout the world. Countries are calling desperately for new drugs to address these bacteria that are becoming untreatable by current drugs. Viotika Life Sciences has identified a new platform of drugs that may circumvent this resistance and save lives in the process. In this application, the company wants to partner with Mitacs to support two postdoctoral interns to test a variety of structural derivatives of their lead compound to determine which of the drugs they have synthesized is best to kill specific bacteria and which has the least side effects.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Delfin Rodriguez-Leyva

Student:

Craig Resch;Muntahi Mourin

Partner:

Viotika Life Sciences Inc.

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Hans Kai Trial: an Evaluation of a Peer-led Preventative Health Intervention

This project involves funding an intern who will work on the conduct of a on going clinical trial, including helping
with participant recruitment and data collection. The intern will also build a research database for the trials data to
be stored in and will assist in the input of the trial data into the database. The intern will also help the partner
organization, Norwest Co-op Community Health, develop guidelines and practices for collecting data about other
programs Norwest Co-op Community Health offers, to help the co-op in evaluating those programs. The intern
will also help publish results of the ongoing clinical trial, which is evaluating a peer-led preventative health program
called Hans Kai, that is offered by Norwest Co-op Community Health.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dylan MacKay

Student:

Jyoti Sihag

Partner:

NorWest Co-op

Discipline:

Food science

Sector:

Health care and social assistance

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

A Needs Assessment of Community Resources and Services for People with Cancer and Their Families in New Brunswick

This research is aiming to discover the experiences of people with a cancer diagnosis and their families in terms of accessing and receiving medical and support services and resources in New Brunswick, and any perceived gaps and barriers they have encountered during their journey. Additionally, this research will explore what a supportive care centre for people with a cancer diagnosis and their families would ideally look like in New Brunswick. The intern will conduct interviews and surveys to assess the cancer experiences of people with a cancer diagnosis, their families, and their formal/informal caregivers. The intern will then analyze the data through finding common themes and meanings in the participants’ shared experiences. This project will promote community partnerships between the University of New Brunswick and the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS). It will benefit CCS as the research findings will provide insight into the needs and experiences of people with cancer diagnoses and their families, and allow the partner organization to gain a greater understanding provincial resources and support services that can aid people through their cancer journey.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shelley Doucet

Student:

Simal Qureshi

Partner:

Canadian Cancer Society

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Accelerate

Single fit bespoke bra for atypical breast dimension and shape

Many women face large hurdles when looking for a bra that is fitting, supporting, and comfortable. This is especially true for women with oversized breasts or who have undergone mastectomy. In additional to emotional distress and poor self-esteem, the lack of fitting and supporting bra may lead to back and chest pain, and negatively impact sleep, sexual activity, and quality of life among others. To solve this issue, the project will build up on a patented system and method for garment fitting and fabrication that allows the production of customized garments through a single fit process by using pre-fabricated modular fabric pieces, which are draped on the wearer during the fitting session. Smart functionalities will also be added for intense activities so that bra support and comfort can be preserved when exercising.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Patricia Dolez

Student:

Josephine Taiye Bolaji

Partner:

Simply Best Underpinnings Corp

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Other

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Spatio-Temporal Human Activity Recognition on Manufacturing Floors

In industry, inspection of manufacturing floors is handled by humans. The drawback of using humans for this repetitive task is that collected data can be highly prone to bias due to small sample size and industrial engineers can miss relevant details during the cycle time analysis. Calculations often misinterpret the real factory situation. This research aims at finding an automatic computer-vision-based system for manual inspection. Some industries are trying to use wearable sensors, so that they can monitor worker activities. However, such an approach is not readily scalable and can be burdensome to the worker. On the contrary, computer-vision-based activity recognition systems can function without interrupting workflow. This research attempts to find a scalable vision-based AI solution that can perform activity recognition on gateway devices. The goal is to develop a neural network architecture with low computational complexity, taking advantage of state-of-the-art computer vision and deep learning tools.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jonathan Wu

Student:

Abdul Muntakim Rafi;Dario Morle

Partner:

IFIVEO

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

Wearable Technologies for Inferring and Enhancing Vestibular Balance Function

The vestibular organs detect head movement and are involved in the coordination of standing balance. With balance problems being a common and expensive healthcare cost internationally, there is a growing need for new diagnostic and therapeutic medical devices that target vestibular balance function. In particular, a wearable device that could be used outside the clinic could provide a convenient, low-cost alternative. Here we explore the feasibility of integrating Electrical Vestibular Stimulation (EVS) – a relatively new technique for probing vestibularspecific balance function – with the commercially available head motion sensor from PROTXX. The wearable technology we are co-developing will enable frequent, accurate, and mobile assessments of vestibular function, as well as provide a novel therapeutic approach for enhancing balance control in patients at risk of falling (analogous to a vestibular prosthetic).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ryan Peters

Student:

Christopher James Banman

Partner:

PROTXX

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Screening of Adsorbents for Lithium Extraction from Saskatchewan Brine Deposits

With the growth in demand for electric vehicles and mobile devices powered by rechargeable lithium batteries, demand for lithium is expected to increase by over 200% in the next decade. Current lithium production comes primarily from Australia, South America and China. There are significant lithium reserves in the same Saskatchewan aquifers currently being exploited for their concomitant oil reserves. Although the lithium concentration in these aquifers is lower than in brines being mined elsewhere, new lithium selective extraction technologies show great promise for making extraction of lithium from these aquifers economical. Prairie Lithium is looking to develop the first lithium brine mine in Saskatchewan using produced water from oil and gas production. The project described here involves screening of potential lithium selective adsorbents to find the most promising candidate for Saskatchewan conditions. The selected material will then be used in a pilot system to demonstrate the economic viability of the entire process.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Amr Henni

Student:

William Nguyen

Partner:

Prairie Lithium Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

University of Regina

Program:

Accelerate

Water Quality and Waste-Solids Dewatering at a Zero-Exchange Recirculating Aquaculture System

To meet growing demand, the aquaculture industry is building increasingly larger land-based farms. There are few locations which can provide enough fresh water for their operation and the industry is forced to reduce its water requirements further by modifying recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) to incorporate zero-exchange technology. Cooke Aquaculture Inc. is currently constructing a zero-exchange RAS at Johnson Lake, located in Pennfield, New Brunswick to produce salmon parrs. This facility will be the first of its kind in the Americas. This research focuses on two possible problems which may arise with the new system. The first problem is with regards to the possible accumulation of waste metabolites in the water. A water quality monitoring program will be implemented throughout the first production cycle, and any accumulations will be remediated as they begin to arise. A model to predict nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations in the waste stream based on feed loading and measured equipment efficiencies will also be developed for optimization purposes. The second problem deals with the dewatering of waste solids generated in the system. The effectiveness of a centrifuge will be evaluated, first using lab-scale tests to optimize polymer dosing, then applying the lab-scale findings to an industrial centrifuge.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michel F Couturier

Student:

Jacob Cormier

Partner:

Cooke Aquaculture Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Accelerate

Scaling Security Architecture

Security has become increasingly important as cyberattacks are more prominent. Despite advances in security technologies there’s still a need for a new security architecture that is simply adaptable and scalable to different and evolving security requirements of various organizations. This project will study the latest technologies and solutions in the field of Cybersecurity that are being used to design scalable cybersecurity frameworks. We will also look at the new technologies and processes that are disrupting the existing Cybersecurity landscape. We will study the Cybersecurity solutions and infrastructure being used by different organizations and build Return on Investment (ROI) models to measure their effectiveness in scaling with an everchanging threat landscape.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Xiaodong Lin

Student:

Aaruni Upadhyay

Partner:

Georgian Partners Growth LP

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

Synthesis of Fluorinated Cannabinoids

The recent legalization of marijuana has sparked renewed interest in studying the health benefits of the non-psychoactive cannabinoids. Cannabidiol (CBO, 1, Figure 1) has emerged as a promising medicinal candidate due to its potential for the treatment of anxiety, and chronic pain. In 2018, the first CBD-containing drug, Epidio1ex, was approved by the FDA for the treatment of epilepsy. Despite its promise as a pharmaceutical, animal and human trials have found that CBD has low bioavailability and is prone to metaboHc degradation and excretion. This issue may be addressed through the synthesis of fluorinated derivatives, a commonly-utilized strategy in the pharmaceutical industry for increasing metabolic stability and modulating pharmacokinetics. The overall strategy of this project is to synthesize fluorinated CBD derivatives to make them more stable to oxidative degradation and excretion.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Glenn Sammis

Student:

Brodie Thomson

Partner:

Complex Biotech Discovery Ventures Ltd.

Discipline:

Chemistry

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Constrained dynamic pricing for airport parking reservations

To make best use of technology on available big data (e.g., airport parking reservation data), we design and develop an innovative big data science solution for constrained dynamic pricing for airport parking reservations in the proposed research project undertaken by the intern. From scientific point of view, such a solution is novel in the sense that it will be capable of achieving multiple objectives (e.g., maximize revenue and other objectives) and solving the constrained dynamic pricing problem (in which price is constrained or bounded by some user-specified threshold). Moreover, it will be efficient in integrating big data from a wide variety of heterogeneous sources, as well as analyzing and learning data to make appropriate recommendation on prices. From the business/industrial point of view, such a solution will be beneficial to the partner organization by helping them to get an insight and better understanding of their data and enable it to further enhance its operation. To a further extent, the solution will be applicable and beneficial to other Canadian airports and/or parking facilities in other Canadian communities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Carson Leung

Student:

Deyu Deng

Partner:

Winnipeg Airports Authority

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Transportation and warehousing

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Development of Applications of Simultaneous Positron Emission Tomography/Magnetic Resonance Imaging – Year two

Funded through a series of NSERC partnership grants, Cubresa Inc. have been working with the applicants to develop technologies for pre-clinical imaging for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging and PET friendly radiofrequency (RF) coils for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of small animals. To date, our collaboration has played a direct role in Cubresa being the first to market with a commercial Silicon Photomultipliers-based pre-clinical PET product which when placed inside a 20cm MRI magnet equipped with an 11.5 cm diameter gradient can provide both PET and MR rat images simultaneously. We are currently developing techniques which will allow PET images to provide molecular images of the brain simultaneously with functional MRI images and developing high resolution MRI imaging techniques to improve quantification of PET images further. The success in developing these technologies is key to Cubresa’s overall product application development roadmap because they demonstrate scientifically credible results and important applications of simultaneous PET/MRI, a necessary marketing tool. Cubresa aims to be the first to market with a commercial pre-clinical product illustrating the significant advantages of simultaneous PET/MRI. The Mitacs application will be used for the postdoctoral candidate to develop image analysis techniques which allow the images to provide quantitative information.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Melanie Martin

Student:

Sheryl Lyn Herrera

Partner:

Cubresa Inc.

Discipline:

Physics / Astronomy

Sector:

University:

University of Winnipeg

Program:

Elevate

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