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Engineering - chemical / biological

Smart Data Fusion for COVID-19 Patients

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, tech industry is racing to develop apps as well as wearable devices to help people to trace contacts, to self-assess, and to self-monitor the development of COVID-19 cases. However, these apps and devices work independently of each other, which leave it to users to connect pieces of information to determine risks and to assess possible COVID-19 infection as well as the severity of the condition. Moreover, the data is invaluable for healthcare providers to treat patients and also for COVID-19 research. In this project, we propose and develop BrightShare, a smart fusion solution to unleash the power of data. BrightShare turns patients’ COVID-19 and health data into actionable information by aggregating data from apps and devices, assessing data against early-warning indicators of COVID-19 infection, and enabling transparent data sharing. BrightShare unites patients, healthcare providers, and COVID-19 researchers to combat COVID-19 together.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mea Wang

Student:

Navid Alipour;Yang Liu

Partner:

Brightsquid

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Smart Textiles for the delivery of neuromuscular electrical stimulation therapy (NMES)

Up to half of patients with COVID-19 requiring mechanical ventilation in an intensive care unit (ICU) will develop ICU-Acquired Weakness (ICUAW). Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) holds promise to both prevent and treat ICUAW. NMES applies electrical impulses to muscles through electrodes placed on the skin to induce muscle contractions, and is highly effective in maintaining muscle mass and strength following limb injury, when loading and exercise is limited. In the intensive care unit (ICU), use of NMES therapy is not possible because it is resource-intensive, requiring constant monitoring by a therapist and because current protocols are not designed for patients that are unresponsive.
The proposed research will explore potential biosignals for the automation of delivery of NMES therapy in the ICU and their integration into smart textiles for NMES delivery.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sunita Mathur;Jane Batt

Student:

Meghana Sharma

Partner:

Conveyor Built

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Storying Access: Reconciling the Effects of Betterment Discourses in Southern Ontario’s Early 20th Century Domestic Science Education – Year two

Building on my recent archival research, my Mitacs project explores the ways early 20th century discourses of betterment and progress, such as eugenics, in southern Ontario were unevenly entwined within rural domestic science educational institutions and connected to cultural histories and legacies of colonialism that diminished and disappeared young women who did not fit the normative middle-class lives of white, able-bodied women who studied, taught, and led in the field of domestic science. Combining recent studies in history, education, feminism, postcolonialism, and performance ethnography in a collaborative, Indigenous research model of decolonization (Smith 2013), I will assemble a team of disability, Black activist, and Indigenous artist-researchers to join me in collaboratively curating two accessible, multi-media exhibitions that address and disrupt local histories and legacies of betterment. The exhibitions will advance non-normative vitality and social justice. Accessible curatorial practices will be developed with support from Dr. Rice, her Re•Vision Centre and Bodies in Translation SSHRC Partnership teams, and 10C. One of the exhibitions will be mounted at10C, where passersby are invited to share ideas and stories. Accessibility workshops and conversation evenings at 10C will be a springboard for “Streetside Stories,” publications, future research, and attracting social finance investment to 10C.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Carla Rice

Student:

Evadne Kelly

Partner:

10C Shared Space

Discipline:

Food science

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Elevate

Understanding Disengagement from Early Psychosis Intervention Services – Year two

While the effectiveness of early psychosis interventions (EPI) for young people with first-episode psychosis has been well-established, research suggests that almost one-third of patients disengage from services. Although lack of family involvement and substance use have arisen as consistent factors associated with EPI disengagement, many other factors remain unexplored. Furthermore, few studies have explored patient and family member perspectives on engagement. The proposed study will address this critical gap by investigating factors associated with disengagement from EPI services and eliciting patient- and family-reported facilitators and barriers to engagement. Expected results include the development and implementation of innovative strategies to keep young people engaged in services and an evaluation of these interventions. The CAMH Foundation is committed to supporting cutting-edge research and patient-centered services at CAMH and will benefit from a project that will increase access to CAMH’s EPI services, engage young people in treatment, and improve their potential for recovery. The fellow will lead analysis and knowledge translation efforts, including engaging knowledge users in using the results to develop interventions to improve EPI engagement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nicole Kozloff

Student:

Alexia Polillo

Partner:

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Elevate

Management and conservation of polar bears in Davis Strait: An integrated population modeling approach to estimating population size, growth rate and Total Allowable Harvest of a priority species in Nunavut, Canada – Year two

Estimates of population size and structure of the Davis Strait polar bear population are uncertain due, in large part, to the prohibitive costs of conducting regular aerial surveys. In recent years, Inuit have indicated that increased bear abundance has resulted in public safety concerns. In addition, Inuit believe that polar bears have negatively impacted other wildlife through increased consumption of seals, and eggs in bird colonies. In an effort to address these concerns, provide better estimates of demographic parameters, and inform sustainable Total Allowable Harvest levels, we propose to use an integrated population model to describe population dynamics of the Davis Strait polar bear population. Using multiple data sets collected from the mid-1970s through 2018, we shall use capture-mark-recapture (CMR) data, capture recovery (CR) data, harvest (HAR) data, age structure (AS) data, habitat data (annual date of ice retreat and advance; ICE), and prey data (annual abundance of harp seal pups; SEAL) to implement a birth-death (BIDE) balance equation that describes the population dynamics. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andrew Edward Derocher

Student:

Kylee Denise Dunham

Partner:

Arctic Raptors Inc

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Elevate

The design and fabrication of a novel pediatric bileaflet mechanical heart valve

To treat infant and toddler patients, a range of over-sized valves are currently used to replace their malfunctioning heart valves. It is well understood that larger valves are not appropriate given the smaller size of children’s hearts, leading to surgical complications and patient prosthesis mismatch. Here we proposed a unique design of our MHV that its performance would be ideal for small applications (<15mm) compared to currently available solutions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hadi Mohammadi

Student:

Dylan Goode

Partner:

Angeleno Medical LLC

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Program:

Studies on uptake and translocation of patented active ingredients in plants

The Suncor/McMaster partnership is generating a pipeline of novel, green, agricultural chemicals to be applied as crop sprays. One of the challenges with treating plants by spraying leaves (foliar treatment) is targeting the transport of the active ingredients (AI) to specific parts of the plant. An example is preventing bacterial growth in the xylem, channels that carry water from the roots up the plant. The transport of AI on leaf surfaces to the xylem is difficult and possibly impossible in some plants.
The new McMaster/Suncor researcher will be developing methods to measure transport into plant tissues, including the xylem fibers and phloem tissues, and to enhance this transport by additives in the crop spray formulation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Pelton

Student:

Dong Yang

Partner:

Suncor Energy Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

Development and Optimization of Immune-Evasive Capsules for Cell-based Therapies

Cell-based treatments for chronic metabolic disorders such as diabetes are poised to disrupt conventional treatments based on insulin administration through needles. These treatments involve transplanting cells that can provide the needed hormone or enzyme directly into the patients’ circulation, in principle for years and without human intervention.
However, these transplanted cells need to be protected from immune recognition by the patients’ immune system. This project describes the optimization and testing of capsules that can provide physical immune isolation to such therapeutic transplanted cells, replacing the current requirement for chemical immune suppression.
These capsules can help bring Canadian and global cell-based therapies to the clinic, and potentially offers significant improvements to the quality of life for Canadian, and global, patients.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alison Holloway

Student:

Sam Ros;Felix Gross;Zhen Hu;Leticia Hernandez Galan

Partner:

Allarta Life Science Inc

Discipline:

Biochemistry / Molecular biology

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

Smart Dashboard for Sustainable Destination Decision Making

Destinations have quickly become victims of their own success. Destination Management Organisations (DMO’s) worldwide are making a much needed shift towards the inclusion of management alongside their marketing priorities for destination management, but are often ill equipped. There is a current gap in the marketplace for useful, comprehensive and user-friendly tools to assist them. This project will create a tool to access the information Ottawa Tourism needs, creating a tool that will be the first data driven tool to combat overtourism, improve resident sentiment, improve efficiency of resources and planning, increase destination revenue and overhead and improve overall destination health.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Phil Walsh

Student:

Mathew Malinsky

Partner:

Ottawa Tourism

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Ryerson University

Program:

Accelerate

Experimental and Numerical Investigation on Effect of Manufacturing Defects on Propeller Cavitation and Efficiency Performance

The objective of the proposed research is to carry out numerical and experimental studies on the performance degradation of propeller blades in three different scales with leading-edge (LE) manufacturing tolerances. In the experimental studies, three single propeller blades in three scales (1:1, 1:2 and 3:4) will be tested in a cavitation tunnel. Flow velocities and pressures in the upstream and downstream will be measured. The evolution of cavitation will be recorded using a high-speed camera. Three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations will be performed for single propeller blades in three scales with base sections without defect (as designed) and sections with LE defects (as built). Focus will be on the effect of grid quality, resolution and turbulence modeling on numerical solutions. Validation studies will be carried out by comparing the CFD results with the experimental data. Scale effects will also be determined based on the experimental and numerical results.
After the validation studies, CFD simulations will be extended to KCS propellers with and without LE defects in three different scales. Conclusions will be drawn on the effect of LE defects on the performance of full-scale propellers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Wei Qiu;Heather Peng

Student:

Shanqin Jin

Partner:

Dominis Engineering

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

CO2-responsive agents for uses in protective coatings

Solvent-based coatings are used for protecting transportation vessels, buildings and infrastructures. They give glossy and durable coatings to protect materials, but their continued use is dangerous to workers and causes environmental damage. Environmentally friendly and safer water-based alternatives exist, but they are less durable and suffer from inferior performance. Unfortunately, the process used to make water-based coatings requires the use of surfactants, which cause the performance problems. We use a novel CO2-responsive surfactant that switches to a non-surfactant as the coating dries. For the first time, a high performance water-based coating can be made that may replace certain solvent-based approaches. The research and development in this coating will be critical in giving industry an alternative coating technology that is more environmentally benign and safer than current coatings.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Philip Jessop;Michael Cunningham

Student:

Jaddie Ho

Partner:

Discipline:

Chemistry

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

Research and Development of Urinary Metabolome-based Personalized Health Assessment for Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Autism and Environmental Exposure – Year One

Despite the growing interests and publications in metabolomics, there is a significant gap between what have been found through scientific studies and what have actually been applied in clinical practice and preventative healthcare. This proposed project aims to fill this gap by addressing two major causes; 1) lack of utilization in existing metabolomics data and published findings, and 2) lack of an accessible tool to collect samples for metabolomics data at home. The first issue is addressed by text mining of published studies and online databases using machine learning techniques. This is followed by a development of multivariate statistical models based on the extracted data. To address the second issue, this project also focuses on a development of a collection kit and suitable analytical methods for metabolites found in urine, a biological specimen that can be collected non-invasively in large volume at home. This will expand current capability of Molecular You Corporation to acquire new information of human health and perform early diagnosis of various conditions of interest, such as autism and inflammatory bowel disease. This collaboration between the personalized digital health company and the major metabolomics research group is expected to bring impacts of metabolomics research efforts into society.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David S Wishart

Student:

Mai Yamamoto

Partner:

Molecular You Corporation

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Health care and social assistance

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Elevate

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