Grants and Contributions

To encourage scientific research and related scientific activities (e.g. data collection, integration, monitoring, and communication, including communication via conferences and symposia) and dissemination of scientific knowledge in the areas of: (a) Fisheries and Aquaculture Science; (b) Ecosystem Science; (c) Oceanography and Modelling; and (d) Freshwater Science.

The Indigenous Perspectives Society will be contracted to develop and deliver an in-person training session for up to 10 new and 6 roster CYFN Gladue Report Writers. The sessions will include a panel discussion with Yukon judges and lawyers. The training will take place at the Yukon University.

Empower young girls and women to have a voice in the society and engage in prevention and protection from forced/child marriages and human trafficking in North Macedonia through awareness raising and capacity building workshops

Development with Identity: Creating 10 Bribri Indigenous educational videos with Bribri Indigenous leaders in Alto Talamanca, Costa Rica.

Improving the economic opportunities of 60 young women in El Progreso, Honduras though vocational technical training and the development of key capacities for employment / entrepreneurialism.

Inclusive economic empowerment of 40 exiled Nicaraguan youth and women from the small-farmer, self-sustainable camp in Upala and in San José, increasing knowledge on employability / entrepreneurial skills, and human and environmental rights, governance, the rule of law and diversity training for 40 Nicaraguan youth and women.

This project will support process and assay development efforts currently ongoing at the NRC for an adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based next generation LPLD gene therapy. The goal of this project will be to accelerate the rate at which this therapy is GMP manufactured and subsequently ready to be tested in the clinic, by formally combining the efforts, experience and expertise of both the NRC and BMC-VMF to finalize process parameters and develop and qualify key GMP release tests that will be executed at the BMC.

This project will support process and assay development efforts currently ongoing at the NRC for an adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based next generation LPLD gene therapy. The goal of this project will be to accelerate the rate at which this therapy is GMP manufactured and subsequently ready to be tested in the clinic, by formally combining the efforts, experience and expertise of both the NRC and BMC-VMF to finalize process parameters and develop and qualify key GMP release tests that will be executed at the BMC.

However, some drug combination therapies can have multiple outcomes that may not be synergistic, causing side effects. In this project, the aim is to investigate the immunostimulatory properties of the drug product in cancer patient's immune cells, identify biomarkers in immune cells from cancer patients at different disease stages, and assess the anti-cancer efficacy of the product in a cancer disease model as a standalone treatment and in combination with other known therapy.

In order to take advantage of the full potential of the Flipfarm rearing system, L2-RPA Inc. has developed a buoy better adapted to our rearing conditions and which will allow the wintering of rearing structures under the ice. They have conceptualized devices for overwintering and returning the baskets to the water surface the following spring to mechanize the operation. Trials are planned for the 2022 rearing season. These developments open the way for significant development potential in terms of production capacity and access to new production sites, but raise a certain number of questions that will have to be addressed in order to take advantage of the full potential of these new developments.