Grants and Contributions

This project provides an opportunity for young, talented Canadians to engage in research by using previously collected information. The research team will answer new questions investigating the link between blood vessel function and brain health. The project is designed to determine how well brain blood vessels soften the pulses coming from the heart.

Astronauts lose bone mass rapidly while in space. Some bone may recover after returning to Earth, but bone structure may be permanently changed. The ends of long bones are made of porous bone connected by thin rods and plates called trabeculae. When bone is lost, trabeculae thin and separate from one another, reducing the strength of the bone. With advances in high-resolution bone imaging, we can now measure bone on a scale finer than a human hair and assess changes in individual trabeculae. This study will discover how individual trabeculae change in response to microgravity and whether these structures recover after returning to Earth.

Galaxy Surveys are a key resource for observational cosmology, with the potential to provide the answers to many fundamental questions in modern physics. The ESA-led Euclid mission, scheduled for launch early in 2023, will provide a survey an order of magnitude larger than current galaxy surveys and with far lower levels of systematic problems thanks to its space-based observations. This grant is designed to exploit key leadership positions held by the PI within Euclid, to help to measure the cosmological expansion rate between redshifts 0.9 and 1.9, testing Dark Energy. Complementary structure growth measurements will test Einstein’s theory of Gravity on the largest scales possible. The scale-dependence of the clustering signal will be used to measure the masses of neutrinos through their early Universe effects, and to set constraints on the evolution of galaxies and structure over cosmological time-scales. This grant will enable a group of early-career researchers to work at the heart of the Euclid Consortium. Furthermore, it will train these scientists with the key skills required for a number of future career directions.

The NASA New Horizons (NH) Kuiper Extended Mission (KEM) is an extension of the New Horizons Pluto mission. In addition to the recent flyby of the object 2014 MU69, during the KEM phase, New Horizons is taking advantage of its location directly within the Kuiper Belt to gather observations of distant Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) over a large range of phase angles. This task is impossible from any Earth localized observatory. The KEM directly addresses the PGGP-01 priority of the Canadian Space Exploration Plan.

Adeno-associated virus (AAV) is currently the most commonly used virus for the delivery of these components. However, delivery by AAVs is not sufficiently effective and specific for effective treatment of many hereditary diseases. Thus, the objective of this project is to modify the AAVs to produce some variants, which are more specific and more effective. The team’s approach is to modify the proteins, which are at the surface of the AAVs to change their binding to the proteins, sugar and lipids at the surface of target cells. This project will generate new AAV variants able to infect more effectively various types of cells to improve the efficacy of gene therapy

The Project will develop quantum sensors based on nanophotonic devices integrated with diamond nanomechanical resonators.

Support the Canadian Culinary Federation national conference in Saskatoon - Budget 2021

Improve the Ukrainian Museum of Canada roof and washrooms, Saskatoon, SK - Budget 2021

Support public health enhancements for Banff and Jasper train platforms - Budget 2021

Replace hockey rink boards at River Heights Arena in Winnipeg, MB - Budget 2021