Grants and Contributions

This project will test hypotheses and experiment with new mechanisms to optimize a repeatable and scalable business process, which may result in new business methods for self-cleaning cameras.

The "Customized EDI Assessments for SMEs" project aims to provide in-depth, one-on-one Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion consultations and assessments to 30 small and medium-sized enterprises, leveraging the Diversity Assessment Tool to deliver customized EDI strategy reports for improved organizational performance, while also offering follow-up consultations to monitor and enhance EDI initiatives.

This Project seeks to revolutionize mRNA therapy delivery by creating a platform that precisely targets specific immune cell types, enabling more effective, safer treatments. Unlike conventional lipid nanoparticle (LNP) formulations, which often depend on passive targeting or liver-specific delivery (e.g., via GalNAc), this innovative approach employs glycan-based targeting ligands to specifically bind glycan-binding proteins (GBPs) uniquely expressed on diverse immune cells. Central to this work is a cell-based assay that evaluates glycan-targeted LNPs for their ability to selectively bind to model cell lines expressing specific GBPs and efficiently deliver their mRNA cargo. This assay is critical for assessing ligand selectivity, ensuring precise targeting among diverse immune cells. The technology’s potential impact is vast, offering new therapeutic avenues for autoimmune disorders, cancer, and infectious diseases by enabling safer, more accurate delivery of mRNA therapies (e.g., in situ CAR-NK therapies to enhance immune cells against tumours).

Development of integrated grain handling equipment and digital infrastructure to improve crop logistics, traceability, and operational efficiency in agriculture.

This project aims to improve test coverage for hardware/software co-designs by integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) with advanced analysis techniques. It introduces a new system for both hardware and software testing, increases the efficiency over existing approaches, and adds new algorithms considering context and use-specific scenarios.

The BIOlab (ex TAC-B) will provide technical expertise, access to equipment and lab facilities to Canadian SMEs to support applied research projects in the field of Cellular Agriculture for both animal cell culture and precision fermentation applications.

Large animal veterinary practices lack tools improve efficiency in creating/maintaining inventories. This project will utilize predictive analytic models to identify inventory needs at veterinary practices by predicting high demand periods, natural language processing to identify key information for case records from video calls that VETSon has been gathering for the past 2.5 years, as well as creating prescriptions from video calls, as well as based on the animal types and numbers for the farm being prescribed for.

Develop a scalable, composable, and intelligent software platform to manage, optimize, and aggregate distributed energy resources (DERs) within a portfolio allowing customers to self-manage, orchestrate and direct DERMs in unison as a Virtual Power Plant (VPP).

To provide Advanced Technology and Innovation advisory, support, R&D and commercialization services for SMEs

The proposed project will advance TransEON’s GaN MOSFET foundry platform to full commercialization by continuing intensive electrothermal characterization of devices for high-power RF operation, with the ultimate goal of achieving critical reliability metrics required for field-ready integrated circuits.