An investment of more than $61 million was annoucned for state-of-the-art research labs and equipment through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF). This investment will support 261 projects at 40 universities across Canada.
A total of 31 projects at UBC were awarded combined funding of $6.0m
UBC Projects
- Memory Deconstruction Facility $125,000
- Harnessing High Value Chemicals from Plants in Plant Bioactive Compounds Research (BioCoRe) Laboratory $159,999
- Infrastructure for Advanced Transient Optical Spectroscopy and Microscopy of Photocatalysts $160,000
- Global Metabolomics Laboratory at UBC $215,000
- The CLean Energy hArvesting using Nanotechnology (CLEAN) Laboratory $125,000
- The Genomic Basis of Sex Differences $471,228
- Invertebrate Cryobiology and Ecophysiology Laboratory $125,000
- Laboratory for MacroSystems Biology $200,000
- Synapses, Circuits and Behaviour Phenotyping Platform: Targeting Pathogenic Mechanisms in Neurodegenerative Disease $75,001
- Fibrosis as a Progenitor Disease: Novel Therapeutic Opportunities $343,424
- Prevention of Severe Bacterial Infections in Children by Optimizing Protection Through Vaccination $125,000
- PRISM: Programmable Interface for Simulation/Statistical Models $93,232
- Ultra-low Temperature Facility for Quantum Simulators and Quantum Computers in Silicon $125,000
- Comparative and Functional Cardiac Imaging Laboratory $125,000
- Profiling, Imaging, and Mechanistic (PRIME) Characterizations of Transcription Factors to Improve Seed Traits $220,000
- Multicellular Cell Division Imaging and Manipulation Laboratory $175,000
- Characterizing the Structure and Mechanism of Microbial Systems $124,410
- Integrated Microbiota Analyses Platform (iMAP) $240,000
- Extension of the Translational Integrative Physiology Labortaory $225,000
- Microwave Circuits and Systems for Sensing and Characterization $122,730
- Next Generation Biodiversity Monitoring $84,000
- Laboratory Infrastructure: the Anxiety Stress and Autism Program (ASAP) $124,582
- The Collaborative and Experimental Ethnography Lab (CE2 Lab) $124,072
- High-throughput System for Single Neuron Mesoscale Functional Connectivity in Mouse Models of Human Disease in Vivo $384,800
- The Molecular Path: Connecting Biologic Insights to Improve Cancer Outcomes $800,000
- The Biomedical Microbiome Research Laboratory: Investigating the Interrelations of Gut Microbiome with Dyslipidemia $125,000
- Emotional Autobiographical Memory in PTSD $95,076
- Advanced Organic Characterization for Optimization of Drinking Water Treatment $124,504
- Transcriptional Memory and Plasticity in Embryonic Stem Cells $259,570
- Cardiac Arrhythmias: From Mechanism to Structure-based Diagnosis $288,306
- SSHRC Partnership Grant Scaling up Interventions with Women Affected by Violence $40,000 (funding for research infrastructure associated with SSHRC research support)