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Engineering - chemical / biological

Cardiac sensor to detect changes in heart dysfunction related to COVID-19 virus

Recent research has confirmed the lethal effects of the COVID-19 virus on the heart, and thus the proposed research will use a cardiac sensor called seismocardiography to assess the mechanical function of the heart in patients with respiratory and cardiac pathology, as well as in normal-healthy aging patients, to assist in the understanding, diagnosis and treatment regime for patients with COVID-19. The cardiac sensor can measure and record how the heart is contracting and relaxing with every heartbeat. If there are complications in the heart, the timing events of the heart will be affected, and the cardiac sensor device will detect these changes from normal heart function. This research will assist LLA Technologies Inc., to enter the global market to commercialize their cardiac sensor, and become a leader in Canada and globally for cardiac diagnostics.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Patrick Neary

Student:

Jyotpal Singh

Partner:

LLA Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Regina

Program:

Accelerate

Exploring the modern possibilities of AI Directors

Games have often used the concept of using an AI to direct gameplay in a way that would be more enjoyable by players in the game. This has most often been targeted at dynamically adjusting the difficulty of encounters so that players will be more successful when playing through a game. However, the general concept can extend more broadly to systems that work to ensure that the player has learned the necessary skills required to advance in the game. We hypothesize that modern learning and planning techniques can be leveraged to create simpler and more robust AI directors that are able to fulfill a broader range of purposes in each game.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nathan Sturtevant

Student:

Kristen Yu

Partner:

Improbable

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Chemical targeting of HDAC6 as a strategy for anti-viral drug discovery

The emergence of viral pandemics, exemplified by the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), has exposed the urgent need for the development of viral infection therapeutics. In a short span of time, more than 1.5 million individuals have been infected and there have been nearly 90, 000 deaths worldwide. Our objective is to pharmacologically validate a new strategy for viral infection therapeutics by designing molecules that inhibit HDAC6, a protein implicated in viral entry. To address our objective, we will develop and optimize chemical compounds that target HDAC6 activity and then we will test the effects of these compounds on coronavirus entry and their anti-viral effect in cells. With our research we hope to validate a novel strategy for the development of anti-viral therapeutics to benefit the research community and advance public health objectives during a pandemic.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Matthieu Schapira

Student:

Mandeep Mann

Partner:

Structural Genomics Consortium

Discipline:

Pharmacy / Pharmacology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

COVID-19 Monitor: a rolling public opinion study on the dynamics of the pandemic

This project will undertake a year-long rolling study of public opinion across eight countries—Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany and Brazil. It will measure the health, social, and economic impacts of COVID-19 throughout the duration of the pandemic and during its immediate aftermath. The study will be comprised of multiple survey waves in each country, mostly drawn from Vox Pop Labs’ proprietary online respondent panel, which is comprised of several million people worldwide. The proposed research team will be responsible for continuously adapting the survey design to reflect the changing dynamics around the pandemic, for analyzing the incoming data from the surveys, and for promptly and continuously engaging in knowledge mobilization via means such as government briefings, media contributions, and other public information resources.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michelle Dion

Student:

Regan Mary Johnston;Anwar Abdelraouf Mohammed;Joanna Massie

Partner:

Vox Pop Labs Inc

Discipline:

Political science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

Tooliaba Tool Rental Platform SAAS UX/UI Testing and Development

Tooliaba is a web based software as a service platform that provides coordinated rental of tools and equipment. The research project into the site will test the UX/UI viability as well as the overall user experience. The desired project is the creation of a well-designed, user friendly app/MVP (minimum viable product) that follows good UI/UX design principles. The app will allow users to rent tools online. Many people working on home improvement or building projects require specialized tools for one time use. This makes the projects expensive and the tools are never used once the project is completed. This app will allow the reuse of tools (a greener way) as well as lower the cost of projects. The app will allows tool owners to easily register and rent their tools online. It will allow tool users the ability to rent tools based on their timeline need.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stephen Lawrence;Goerge Allen

Student:

Hongming Li

Partner:

Tooliaba

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

Red River College

Program:

Accelerate

A Study of social enterprise innovations in business tools and structures to support greater affordability and increased access to cohousing in Canada

This study aims to support existing and future grassroots cohousing communities in maneuvering systemic and cultural barriers in order to achieve an increase in cohousing communities constructed in Canada, and a proliferation of cohousing and/or cohousing-inspired affordable housing communities. Affordable cohousing has the potential to support more sustainable living (sustainable both socially and environmentally), enable personal growth through social and housing security, minimize the factors that typically perpetuate the cycle of poverty, and engage more people in the development of a collective built environment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alex Stewart

Student:

Wendy Reid Fairhurst

Partner:

Coho NL Community Development Inc

Discipline:

Resources and environmental management

Sector:

Service industry

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Development of Technologies for Treatment and Management of OTSG and Evaporator Blowdown Wastes from Oil Sands Operations

The steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) is the most commonly employed process for extraction of oil or bitumen from oil sands reservoirs. This process involves injection of large quantity of steam into the oil reservoir. The injected steam is further recovered as produced water which constitutes high concentrations of hydrocarbons and mineral salts. Due to the large requirement of water for oil sands processing, the produced water is recycled for the production of steam to reduce fresh water intake. Continuous recycling of produced water leads to accumulation of inorganic salts and minerals and organics constituting production chemicals, natural soil organics and hydrocarbons. Of these contaminants, presence of high concentration of silica and its interaction with organics leads to numerous operational challenges in boilers and evaporators. Removal of silica from the produced water is also challenging due unreliable performance of silica removal processes practiced in the industry due to the complex interactions of silica with other constituents. This project will focus on improving the performance of silica removal process by enhancing the scientific understanding of the process.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gopal Achari;Anil K Mehrotra;Sathish Ponnurangam

Student:

Saheli Rao

Partner:

Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Tracking the parasympathetic nervous system, emotions, and wellbeing in chronic pain conditions

Wearable body sensors are groundbreaking in that they allow for continuous and unobtrusive physiological measurements. The promise is that someday soon, smartphones will monitor our bodily state and thus prevent all kinds of wellbeing implications: acute physiological issues like stroke or heart attack; less acute but still serious illness, such as chronic illnesses caused by destructive behavioural patterns; and everyday psychological experiences such as stress and bad mood. But this is not yet a plug and play matter; simply attaching a heart rate sensor does not fulfill this dream. Physiological data is complex and the scientific validation of continuous real-life physiological measurements is still scarce. There’s a lot to be learned about how different physiological markers can be used to inform us about underlying physiological and psychological processes. The present study is a first step in a program aimed at exploring whether readings from a wearable sensor can be used to improve physical wellbeing by way of improving emotional regulation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

James Enns

Student:

Veronica Dudarev

Partner:

HealthQB Technologies

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Targeting Semaphorin 3C in Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer

Prostate cancer is the most common malignancy in men and a major cause of cancer deaths. Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is the first-line therapy for metastatic prostate cancer but invariable the cancer regrows despite the androgen deprivation – this regrowth is termed castrate resistant prostate cancer. We have discovered that expression of a specific gene (Semaphorin 3C) is associated with the emergence of castrate resistant prostate cancer. The Ong laboratory has developed an inhibitor to the Semaphorin 3C pathway, and the purpose of the current study is to determine what genetic alterations in the tumour cells can result in the emergence of resistance to inhibition of Semophorin 3C signaling.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christopher J Ong

Student:

Shahram Khosravi

Partner:

STEMCELL Technologies Canada Inc

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

An automated system to identify and extract key structural components in academic written texts or genres

To streamline knowledge acquisition, indexing, dissemination, and synthesis—especially important to the future of libraries—a fundamental understanding of knowledge storage and communication is required. In a textual body of knowledge, relevant qualities include layout and structure; headings, chapters, sections, and paragraphs; figures, tables, lists, captions, and illustrations; authorship information and references; and, most importantly, the relationship between these semantic components. We propose research to develop a series of software model pipelines capable of producing a JSON file of an input document’s relevant semantic qualities. This inter-disciplinary project combines computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), and computational linguistics to research optical character recognition, document classification, document object detection and segmentation, document layout recognition and classification, and semantic labelling. Deep learning, statistical machine learning, and traditional computer vision-based methods for these topics will be researched and evaluated.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Seok-bum Ko;Zhi Li;Roy Ka-Wei Lee

Student:

Logan Markewich;Yubin Xing;Hao Zhang

Partner:

Living Sky Technologies Ltd.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Breaking Biofilms with Ordinary Polymers – Light-Activated Antimicrobial Crosslinkers

Microbial growth on surfaces, or biofouling, is a pervasive problem across sectors including medical implants, hospital surfaces, water treatment, and environmental monitoring. Many existing solutions involve the use of harsh chemicals that may harm human health or the environment. In this work, our team of chemists, biologists, and engineers will develop a plastic that includes light-activated molecules that prevent microbes from growing, but do so in a way that is site-specific and inherently safe. Our partners, Epic Ventures, Inc. have introduced many other new materials to the market, and will work with us to translate our new polymers into useful coatings for medical devices, hospital environments, drinking water systems, and high performance materials.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jeremy Wulff;Heather Buckley

Student:

Stefania Musolino;Anna Curtin;Andrew Freiburger

Partner:

Epic Ventures

Discipline:

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

A Community-Based Participatory Action Research Project to Examine How People Who Use Drugs are Represented in Anti-Stigma Campaigns and How Anti-Stigma Work Can be Made More Inclusive

Through a review of existing anti-stigma campaigns targeting stigma towards people who use drugs (PWUD) and a series of focus groups conducted with marginalized PWUD, this community-based research project will explore how anti-stigma campaigns can be made more inclusive of all PWUD, especially those most severely impacted by stigma. The project is being guided by a community advisory board made up of drug user activists from the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) and findings will be mobilized to advocate for improved efforts to address the stigma PWUD face in the current overdose crisis. As VANDU is an organization that regularly consults with governments and policy makers on drug policy (including anti-stigma interventions) and also engages in its own advocacy campaigns this research will benefit the partner organization by informing and empowering its members in their ongoing work to fight stigma and advocate for the rights of PWUD.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Schmitt

Student:

Scott Neufeld

Partner:

Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Health care and social assistance

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

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