Grants and Contributions

This proposal presents a modular, mobile-first platform designed to deliver personalized, bite-sized wellness and mental health content. Fully integrated with the broader platform, the initial release focuses on creating and distributing micro-interventions. The aim is to enhance user and patient well-being, improve the care experience for both patients and providers, and boost caregiver productivity—while paving the way for broader use beyond mental health and wellness.

The firm wishes to develop, implement and optimize a digital/growth marketing strategy to benefit the firm with its sales revenues, increase product awareness and reduce sales and marketing costs.

The competitiveness and innovation capabilities of Canadian SMEs will be enhanced by initiatives undertaken by the Canadian Feed Research Center.

This project focuses on developing and implementing QA/QC processes, testing methods, and performance characterization to support the scale-up and commercialization of Evercloak’s advanced graphene oxide membrane dehumidification systems.

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).

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 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.

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 specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:
• To provide recognition and funding to academic health research trainees;
• To provide a reliable supply of highly skilled and qualified researchers.