La FCI investit 8 million $ en infrastructure pour les chaires de recherche du Canada

Université de Toronto

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OTTAWA (ONTARIO) ‒ Le Gouvernement du Canada a annoncé aujourd’hui un financement important pour les titulaires de chaires de recherche du Canada, y compris des sommes destinées à l’acquisition d’équipement de pointe.

Ces investissements soutiendront la recherche de 203 nouvelles et existantes titulaires de chaires. La Fondation canadienne pour l’innovation (FCI) octroie plus de 8 millions de dollars en financement d’infrastructure de recherche à 49 de ces titulaires de chaires de recherche du Canada dans 26 universités au pays. Ce financement fait partie d’un investissement total de 164 millions de dollars du gouvernement du Canada a annoncé aujourd’hui à The University of Toronto par l’honorable Kirsty Duncan, ministre des Sciences.

LIRE : Communiqué de presse des Chaires de recherche du Canada

Chaque année, le Programme de Chaires de recherche du Canada investit quelque 265 millions de dollars afin d’attirer et de retenir certains des chercheurs les plus accomplis et prometteurs du monde. Les titulaires de chaire sont reconnus pour leur excellence en recherche dans les domaines des sciences naturelles, du génie, des sciences de la santé et des sciences humaines.

Fonds des leaders John-R.-Evans

Financement de l’infrastructure liée à une Chaire de recherche du Canada

Établissement	Projets appuyés
British Columbia Institute of Technology	1
Dalhousie University	2
École Polytechnique de Montréal	1
HEC Montréal	1
Lakehead University	1
McGill University	3
McMaster University	2
Mount Allison University	1
Saint Mary’s University	2
Thompson Rivers University	3
Université de Montréal	2
Université de Sherbrooke	1
Université du Québec à chicoutimi	1
Université du Québec à Montréal	1
Université du Québec à Rimouski	2
Université Laval	2
University of British Columbia (The)	4
University of Guelph	2
University of Lethbridge	1
University of New Brunswick	1
University of Ottawa	1
University of Saskatchewan	1
University of the Fraser Valley	1
University of Toronto	8
University of Waterloo	3
University of Western Ontario (The)	1
Total 26 établissements	49

Liste des projets appuyés par établissement

Chaire de recherche	Titre du projet	Contribution maximale de la FCI
British Columbia Institute of Technology
Borisoff, Jaimie	Rehabilitation Engineering Design Laboratory Equipment	$200,000
Total	1	$200,000
Dalhousie University
Buchwald, Carolyn	Building Experimental Systems to Determine Stable Isotope Systematics within the Nitrogen Cycle	$125,000
Langille, Morgan	Integrating, Classifying, and Inferring the Human Microbiome	$124,938
Total	2	$249,938
École Polytechnique de Montréal
Kéna-Cohen, Stéphane	Fabrication and Spectroscopic Tools for Molecular Photonics	$98,500
Total	1	$98,500
HEC Montréal
Coviello, Decio	Public Goods Lab	$132,900
Total	1	$132,900
Lakehead University
Levkoe, Charles	Centre for Food Systems Studies	$49,337
Total	1	$49,337
McGill University
Amabili, Marco	Vibrations and Fluid-Structure Interaction	$200,000
Geitmann, Anja	Platform for High Resolution and Live Cell Imaging in Plant Development	$200,000
Weinberg, Anna	Neural Markers of Risk for Anxiety and Depression	$60,000
Total	3	$460,000
McMaster University
Valliant, John	Molecular Imaging Probe Discovery Laboratory	$400,000
Verdu, Elena	Role of Intestinal Microbiota in Food Sensitivity	$176,145
Total	2	$576,145
Mount Allison University
Finkel, Zoe	Mount Allison University Phytoplankton Culture Facility	$115,580
Total	1	$115,580
Saint Mary’s University
Brosseau, Christa	Sustainable Nanomaterials for Advanced Sensing and Energy Applications	$121,970
Ventura, Gregory	Multi-Molecular Characterization of Complex Organic Matrices for the Detection of Geological Processes	$184,380
Total	2	$306,350
Thompson Rivers University
Johnson, Shelly	Centre for Indigenizing Higher Education	$28,934
Nec, Yana	CRC Tier II in Applied Mathematics and Optimisation	$75,000
Price, Heather	Children and the Law Laboratory	$72,692
Total	3	$176,626
Université de Montréal
Lacaille, Jean-Claude	Facility for Integrated Electrophysiological, Imaging, Optogenetic and Behavioral Studies	$123,432
Pechmann, Sebastian	Understanding Protein Homeostasis at the Systems Level	$96,921
Total	2	$220,353
Université de Sherbrooke
Claverie, Jerome	Infrastructure pour le développement de matériaux organiques innovants	$300,000
Total	1	$300,000
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Rautio, Milla	Infrastructure for Boreal and Polar Aquatic Research	$104,200
Total	1	$104,200
Université du Québec à Montréal
Jenabian, Mohammad-Ali	The Role of Regulatory T Cells in HIV Infection and Mucosal Immunity	$92,000
Total	1	$92,000
Université du Québec à Rimouski
La Charité, Claude	Bibliothèques, ateliers d'écriture et géopoétique de l'estuaire et du golfe Saint-Laurent	$82,129
Robert, Dominique	Infrastructure pour la Chaire de recherche du Canada en écologie halieutique	$126,165
Total	2	$208,294
Université Laval
Creech, Andrea	Mobile Laboratory for Research in Music in Community	$107,012
Fradet-Turcotte, Amélie	Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Genomic Instability	$119,972
Total	2	$226,984
University of British Columbia (The)
Ainslie, Philip	Integrative Cerebrovascular Physiology Laboratory	$110,000
Hamlin, Kiley	Attention and Psychophysiology Measurement Equipment	$51,600
Haney, Cara	Identification of Host and Bacterial Genes Required for Plant-Microbiome Interactions	$144,000
Johnson, Mark	Advancing Research in Ecohydrology Through Analysis of Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes of CO2	$30,000
Total	4	$335,600
University of Guelph
Rice, Carla	Project Re•Vision: Mobilizing New Meanings of Difference	$31,788
Rogers , Michael	Simulating Digestion for Food Nanotechnology Assessment	$198,000
Total	2	$229,788
University of Lethbridge
Wiseman, Steven	Establishment of a Mechanistic Toxicology Facility	$121,557
Total	1	$121,557
University of New Brunswick
Ghorbani, Ali-Akbar	Intelligence-driven Cybersecurity Tools and Techniques	$125,000
Total	1	$125,000
University of Ottawa / Université d’Ottawa
Chen, Simon	Fast Two-Photon Resonance Microscope System for Advanced In Vivo Imaging of Brain Plasticity in Awake and Behaving Mice	$372,011
Total	1	$372,011
University of Saskatchewan
Price, Eric	Radiopharmaceuticals for Imaging and Treating Cancer and Bacterial Infections	$125,000
Total	1	$125,000
University of the Fraser Valley
Newman, Lenore	Agricultural Applications of Remote Aerial Sensing	$35,400
Total	1	$35,400
University of Toronto
Andreazza, Ana	Creation of a Laboratory to Study Redox Modulations in Mood Disorders	$124,995
Bonin, Robert	Establishment of a Sensory Neuroplasticity Platform at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Toronto	$159,348
Gingras, Anne-Claude	Functional Proteomics	$399,980
Goldstein, Abby	Preventing Risk and Promoting Well-Being in Emerging Adulthood	$207,626
Kerman, Kagan	Tissue Culture Facility for Bioanalytical Sensors	$48,078
Pardee, Keith	Synthetic Biology in Human Health	$160,000
Treanor, Bebhinn	Spatially-Resolved Biochemistry	$50,000
Vutha, Amar	Precision Physics with Atoms and Molecules	$280,000
Total	8	$1,430,027
University of Waterloo
Craig, James	Computing Infrastructure to Support the Canada Research Chair in Environmental Modelling and Analysis	$50,000
Li, Ming	Deep Learning Facilities	$120,000
Roy, Pierre-Nicholas	Quantum Dynamics of Confined Molecules	$25,000
Total	3	$195,000
University of Western Ontario (The)
Kramer, Jamie	Epigenetic Regulation of Learning and Memory	$193,280
Total	1	$193,280
TOTAL	49 projets	6 679 870 $

Â NOTER : Dans le cadre de cette annonce, la FCI a attribué 2 003 961 $ additionnels à même le Fonds d’exploitation des infrastructures, un programme qui aide les établissements bénéficiaires à faire face aux coûts d’exploitation et de maintenance découlant de leurs nouvelles infrastructures.