۲ݮƵ

News

۲ݮƵ researchers awarded $1M to conduct high impact research

Published: 31 May 2021

Four exploratory ۲ݮƵ-led projects funded by the New Frontiers in Research Fund 2020 Exploration Grants.

The (NFRF) 2020 awarded $14.5 millionin funding support to 117research projects across Canada. The fund supports research that merges disciplines in non-traditional ways, “to explore something new that might fail, but has the potential for significant impact.” ۲ݮƵ recipients will receive $1 million shared among four projects, with each receiving up to $250,000 over the next two years.

The NFRF’s Exploration stream was created to address gaps in the federal funding system, specifically to to promote innovation and research that defies current paradigms, bridges disciplines, or tackles fundamental problems from new perspectives.

۲ݮƵ’s funded Exploration research projects aim to create significant advances in our world—from creating new sustainable energy technologies that can help combat global climate change, to improving drug delivery using a new generation of DNA-based nanomaterials. Projects will also aim to discover new and easier ways of detecting anomalies in our Galaxy and to study the laws of developmental timing in embryonic cells in order to better understand fetal malformation.

NFRF is an initiative of the and is managed as a tri-agency program on behalf of the , the and the .

List of ۲ݮƵ projects awarded in the 2020 NFRF Exploration competition:

Quantum Imaging of Enzymatic Electron Transfer Dynamics at the Single-Molecule Level

Principal Investigator: Kirk Bevan, Department of Mining & Materials Engineering.

Co-Principal Investigator: , Department of Physics.

Collaborators: Hanadi Sleiman, Department of Chemistry.

Toward automated synthesis of DNA nanomaterials

Principal Investigator: Gonzalo Cosa, Department of Chemistry

Co-Principal Investigator: Hanadi Sleiman, Department of Chemistry

Collaborator: David Juncker, Department of Biomedical Engineering

The geometry of developmental timing

Principal Investigator: Paul François, Department of Physics

Co-Principal Investigator: , Developmental Biology, EMBL Heidelberg

Learning to Find Galactic Anomalies Application

Principal Investigator: , School of Computer Science

Co-Principal Investigator: , Department of Physics, Université de Montréal.

Collaborators: (Université de Montréal), (۲ݮƵ University), (University of Toronto), (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), (Université de Montréal).


Back to top