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.

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A total of 31 projects at UBC were awarded combined funding of $6.0m

UBC Projects

1. Memory Deconstruction Facility $125,000
2. Harnessing High Value Chemicals from Plants in Plant Bioactive Compounds Research (BioCoRe) Laboratory $159,999
3. Infrastructure for Advanced Transient Optical Spectroscopy and Microscopy of Photocatalysts $160,000
4. Global Metabolomics Laboratory at UBC $215,000
5. The CLean Energy hArvesting using Nanotechnology (CLEAN) Laboratory $125,000
6. The Genomic Basis of Sex Differences $471,228
7. Invertebrate Cryobiology and Ecophysiology Laboratory $125,000
8. Laboratory for MacroSystems Biology $200,000
9. Synapses, Circuits and Behaviour Phenotyping Platform: Targeting Pathogenic Mechanisms in Neurodegenerative Disease $75,001
10. Fibrosis as a Progenitor Disease: Novel Therapeutic Opportunities $343,424
11. Prevention of Severe Bacterial Infections in Children by Optimizing Protection Through Vaccination $125,000
12. PRISM: Programmable Interface for Simulation/Statistical Models $93,232
13. Ultra-low Temperature Facility for Quantum Simulators and Quantum Computers in Silicon $125,000
14. Comparative and Functional Cardiac Imaging Laboratory $125,000
15. Profiling, Imaging, and Mechanistic (PRIME) Characterizations of Transcription Factors to Improve Seed Traits $220,000
16. Multicellular Cell Division Imaging and Manipulation Laboratory $175,000
17. Characterizing the Structure and Mechanism of Microbial Systems $124,410
18. Integrated Microbiota Analyses Platform (iMAP) $240,000
19. Extension of the Translational Integrative Physiology Labortaory $225,000
20. Microwave Circuits and Systems for Sensing and Characterization $122,730
21. Next Generation Biodiversity Monitoring $84,000
22. Laboratory Infrastructure: the Anxiety Stress and Autism Program (ASAP) $124,582
23. The Collaborative and Experimental Ethnography Lab (CE2 Lab) $124,072
24. High-throughput System for Single Neuron Mesoscale Functional Connectivity in Mouse Models of Human Disease in Vivo $384,800
25. The Molecular Path: Connecting Biologic Insights to Improve Cancer Outcomes $800,000
26. The Biomedical Microbiome Research Laboratory: Investigating the Interrelations of Gut Microbiome with Dyslipidemia $125,000
27. Emotional Autobiographical Memory in PTSD $95,076
28. Advanced Organic Characterization for Optimization of Drinking Water Treatment $124,504
29. Transcriptional Memory and Plasticity in Embryonic Stem Cells $259,570
30. Cardiac Arrhythmias: From Mechanism to Structure-based Diagnosis $288,306
31. SSHRC Partnership Grant Scaling up Interventions with Women Affected by Violence $40,000 (funding for research infrastructure associated with SSHRC research support)