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Home / 2020 / June / 17 / UBCO researchers awarded $4.3M in NSERC Discovery grants

UBCO researchers awarded $4.3M in NSERC Discovery grants

By Jenny Matechuk on June 17, 2020

The Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced more than $492 million in funding by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), through its Discovery research program.

This funding will support researchers across the country as they pursue research in a wide variety of natural sciences and engineering disciplines, including biology, mathematics and statistics, computer science and artificial intelligence, chemistry, and chemical engineering. It also includes support for early-career researchers who will bring new perspectives and insights to their fields, enabling them to become the research leaders of tomorrow.

UBC researchers were awarded a total of $37.1m for 183 projects through the Discovery Grants, Research Tools and Instruments Grants and Subatomic Particle Physics Grants programs. A supplementary $3m was awarded through Discovery Accelerator and Discovery Launch grants and the Northern Research and Ship Time supplementary programs. The awards are as follows:

  • 156 Discovery Grants with a combined investment of $33.4m over five years,
    • 16 Discovery Accelerator Supplements worth $1.9m over three years
    • 37 Discovery Launch Supplements for early career researchers worth $0.5m for one year
    • 3 Northern Research Supplements worth $0.2m over five years
  • Ship Time Supplements worth $0.4m
  • 26 Research Tools and Instruments grants worth $3.2m for one year
  • 1 Subatomic Particle Physics Project grant of $0.5m over three years

NSERC ANNOUNCEMENT


22 UBCO researchers received $4,380,900 in Discovery grants and 3 received an additional $327,785 in research tools and equipment grants.


UBCO RECIPIENTS: DISCOVERY GRANTS

 

Shahria Alam (Engineering)
Novel and Emerging Technologies for Sustainable and Seismically Resilient Infrastructure
$215,000

Jeffrey Andrews (Data Science, Statistics)
Topics in unsupervised statistical learning
$90,000

Mohammad Arjmand (Engineering)
Advanced 3D Printed Conductive Polymer Nanocomposites toward Electromagnetic Interference Shielding
$140,000
$12,500 Discovery Launch Supplement

Kirk Bergstrom (Biology)
The Role of Mucin-type O-glycosylation in Fitness and Transmission of Intestinal Symbiotic Bacteria In Vivo
$185,000
$12,500 Discovery Launch Supplement

Michael Deyholos (Biology)
Pectin-modifying enzymes in plant development and interactions with fungi
$220,900

Wilson Eberle (Engineering)
Next Generation Smart-Grid Enabled Electric Vehicle Chargers
$165,000

Rebecca Feldman (Medical Physics, Mathematics Physics, Statistics)
Image acquisition and analysis tools for magnetic resonance imaging near brain injury
$140,000
$12,500 Discovery Launch Supplement

Glen Foster (Health and Exercise Sciences)
Human respiratory and neurocirculatory plasticity induced by intermittent hypoxia
$200,000

Ian Foulds (Engineering)
Microfluidic Sample Handling for the Spectroscopic Integration (SPIN) Program
$195,000

Kasun Hewage (Engineering)
Life cycle thinking based low-impact construction strategies for Canadian micro-communities
$365,000
$120,000 Discovery Accelerator Supplement

Alex Hill (Astrophysics)
The Dynamic Interstellar Medium
$120,000
$12,500 Discovery Launch Supplement

Andrew Jirasek (Medical Physics)
Development of optical spectroscopic and 3D dosimetric systems in radiation therapy
$305,000

Andis Klegeris (Biology)
Regulation of astrocyte phagocytosis and other physiological functions by molecules endogenous to the central nervous system
$235,000

Loïc Markley (Engineering)
Electromagnetic periodic structures and metamaterials for imaging and wireless technology
$140,000

Alison McManus (Health and Exercise Sciences)
Vascular responsiveness and oxygen transport during exercise in children and adolescents
$165,000

Christopher McNeil (Health and Exercise Sciences)
Neural and muscular aspects of fatigue and long-term acclimatization to high altitude.
$200,000
$120,000 Discovery Accelerator Supplement

Frederic Menard (Chemistry)
Design of molecular tools to study protein dynamics in living cells
$145,000

Sepideh Pakpour (Engineering)
Sustainable, resilient and healthy built environments: An integrated approach
$130,000
$12,500 Discovery Launch Supplement

Jason Pither (Biology)
Imprints and implications of historical contingencies in biodiversity patterns
$140,000

Rob Shave (Health and Exercise Sciences)
Mammalian cardiac structure and function: The influence of evolutionary selection and prevailing hemodynamics
$200,000

Dwayne Tannant (Engineering)
Identifying geohazards in glaciated valleys and building rural community resilience via bare-earth point cloud analysis and eco-sensitive mitigation
$180,000

Christopher West (Cellular and Physiological Sciences)
The cardiac-sympathetic contribution to blood pressure regulation
$190,000
$12,500 Discovery Launch Supplement


UBCO RECIPIENTS: RESEARCH TOOLS AND INSTRUMENTS GRANTS

 

Sharia Alam (Engineering)
Uni-Directional Shaking Table (UDST) system controller for the Applied Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Structures (ALAMS)
$143,982

Mohammad Arjmand (Engineering)
Advanced Polymer Melt Mixer for Development of Multifunctional Polymer Composites
$90,876

Mina Hoorfar (Engineering)
Environmental Test Chamber Urgently Required to Develop and Calibrate Microfluidic and Thin-film Sensing and Energy Conversion and Storage Technologies
$92,927

 

Full list of UBC recipients

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