Grants and Contributions

Membership to CIE allows Canada to participate in international endeavours and promotes the exchange and dissemination of knowledge in the most advanced areas of scientific and industrial research.

Membership to IMU allows Canada to participate in international endeavours and promotes the exchange and dissemination of knowledge in the most advanced areas of scientific and industrial research.

Membership to EUREKA SECRETARIAT allows Canada to participate in international endeavours and promotes the exchange and dissemination of knowledge in the most advanced areas of scientific and industrial research.

In collaboration with National Metrology Institutes (NMIs) worldwide, including NRC, the BIPM fulfills its mandate of providing the basis for a single, coherent system of measurements throughout the world, traceable to the International System of Units (SI). This mandate is carried out through a series of consultative committees whose members are the national metrology laboratories of the Member States, and through the BIPM’s own laboratory work, which includes carrying out measurement-related research and calibrations in selected areas for some Member States, depending on the technical sophistication of their NMIs. National Metrology Institutes then disseminate measurement standards through calibration services to national scientific, industrial, commercial, and public sector users.

The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) is a 3.6 meter optical/infrared telescope, located atop the summit of Mauna kea, a 4200 meter, dormant volcano on the island of Hawaii. The CFHT is designed to collect optical and infrared electromagnetic radiation. The CFHT Observatory, consisting of the telescope and its facilities, is jointly funded and operated by Canada, France and the State of Hawaii.

In keeping elders at home for longer, there is a need to remotely and frequently monitor their health condition and to provide the data to the care givers. This project aims at developing sensors for noninvasive and continuous sampling of biomarkers relevant to assess a senior's health condition. A sensor array, akin to an electronic nose, will be designed and built to detect and identify biomarkers such as acetone (diabetes, lung cancer), ammonia (liver diseases), nitric oxide (asthma, COPD), hydrogen disulfide (asthma, airways inflammation) and isoprene (lung cancer) in the breath of individuals. Carbon nanotube field-effect transistor sensing elements will be fabricated as to yield different signals to biomarkers, and assembled in a single sensing system. The array of sensing elements will provide a unique signature for each biomarker to identify the biomarker
marker presence and to quantify its concentration in order to issue an early warning of a change in the health condition. Moreover, an electronic skin will be developed where an electrochemical device based on carbon nanotubes will be used to detect specifically glucose and/or cortisol in eccrine sweat. The electrochemical sensor will be coupled to a microfluidic component to sample, concentrate, guide and evacuate the sweat as worn as a patch directly on the skin. The sensors will serve as functional wearables to be integrated in IoT. Better data on the elders' health status will enable a faster and more targeted response to health concerns, and will promote informed decision-making by the individual, the care givers and the health practitioners.

Dementia is a great public health problem, but treatments for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have failed so far, partly because the disease is diagnosed too late for the damage to the brain to reverse. This project aims to validate a new brain health assessment that will identify individuals at risk of developing AD at very early stages using a simple, low-cost method. The assessment will measure the brain's response after eye blinks using a user-friendly electroencephalography (EEG) headset. The project will examine whether the blink-related responses measured with this portable system correlates with an individual's cognitive status, and by re-testing participants after 6, 12, and 24 months, we will determine whether blink-related responses can predict future cognitive decline. This project may result in a new assessment for brain health that may be deployed in primary care settings to help predict cognitive decline and dementia, ensuring more adults age well in place.

Dementia is a great public health problem, but treatments for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have failed so far, partly because the disease is diagnosed too late for the damage to the brain to reverse. This project aims to validate a new brain health assessment that will identify individuals at risk of developing AD at very early stages using a simple, low-cost method. The assessment will measure the brain's response after eye blinks using a user-friendly electroencephalography (EEG) headset. The project will examine whether the blink-related responses measured with this portable system correlates with an individual's cognitive status, and by re-testing participants after 6, 12, and 24 months, we will determine whether blink-related responses can predict future cognitive decline. This project may result in a new assessment for brain health that may be deployed in primary care settings to help predict cognitive decline and dementia, ensuring more adults age well in place.

Business innovation to re-engineer marketing and sales activities to optimize the firm’s customer acquisition, conversion to premium plans and expansion to new markets.

Development of advanced superplastic forming technology which uses Gas Oscillation to drastically (up to 20x) increase the speed of forming, moving SPF technology from a niche to forming technology to the mainstream.