The CFI supports Canada Research Chairs with more than $8 million in infrastructure funding
OTTAWA, ONTARIO — The Government of Canada announced new funding today for the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) Program, including money for state-of-the-art research equipment and facilities.
This new funding will support the research of 203 new and current Chairholders. The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) contributed more than $8 million in research infrastructure funding for 49 Chairholders at 26 universities across the country. This contribution is part of a total investment from the Government of Canada of more than $164 million, announced today by Minister of Science, Kirsty Duncan at the University of Toronto.
Read: Press release from the Canada Research Chairs Program
Each year, the CRC Program invests approximately $265 million in research to attract some of the world’s most accomplished and promising minds to Canada, and to keep them here. Chairholders are recognized for their research excellence in engineering and the natural sciences, health sciences, humanities and social sciences.
John R. Evans Leaders Fund
Funding for infrastructure associated with a Canada Research Chair
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Projects approved |
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Total 26 institutions |
49 |
List of approved projects by institution
Chairholder |
Project title |
Maximum CFI contribution |
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Borisoff, Jaimie |
Rehabilitation Engineering Design Laboratory Equipment |
$200,000 |
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Total |
1 |
$200,000 |
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Buchwald, Carolyn |
Building Experimental Systems to Determine Stable Isotope Systematics within the Nitrogen Cycle |
$125,000 |
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Langille, Morgan |
Integrating, Classifying, and Inferring the Human Microbiome |
$124,938 |
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Total |
2 |
$249,938 |
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Kéna-Cohen, Stéphane |
Fabrication and Spectroscopic Tools for Molecular Photonics |
$98,500 |
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Total |
1 |
$98,500 |
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Coviello, Decio |
Public Goods Lab |
$132,900 |
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Total |
1 |
$132,900 |
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Lakehead University |
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Levkoe, Charles |
Centre for Food Systems Studies |
$49,337 |
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Total |
1 |
$49,337 |
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McGill University |
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Amabili, Marco |
Vibrations and Fluid-Structure Interaction |
$200,000 |
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Geitmann, Anja |
Platform for High Resolution and Live Cell Imaging in Plant Development |
$200,000 |
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Weinberg, Anna |
Neural Markers of Risk for Anxiety and Depression |
$60,000 |
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Total |
3 |
$460,000 |
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McMaster University |
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Valliant, John |
Molecular Imaging Probe Discovery Laboratory |
$400,000 |
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Verdu, Elena |
Role of Intestinal Microbiota in Food Sensitivity |
$176,145 |
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Total |
2 |
$576,145 |
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Finkel, Zoe |
Mount Allison University Phytoplankton Culture Facility |
$115,580 |
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Total |
1 |
$115,580 |
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Brosseau, Christa |
Sustainable Nanomaterials for Advanced Sensing and Energy Applications |
$121,970 |
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Ventura, Gregory |
Multi-Molecular Characterization of Complex Organic Matrices for the Detection of Geological Processes |
$184,380 |
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Total |
2 |
$306,350 |
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Thompson Rivers University |
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Johnson, Shelly |
Centre for Indigenizing Higher Education |
$28,934 |
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Nec, Yana |
CRC Tier II in Applied Mathematics and Optimisation |
$75,000 |
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Price, Heather |
Children and the Law Laboratory |
$72,692 |
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Total |
3 |
$176,626 |
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Lacaille, Jean-Claude |
Facility for Integrated Electrophysiological, Imaging, Optogenetic and Behavioral Studies |
$123,432 |
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Pechmann, Sebastian |
Understanding Protein Homeostasis at the Systems Level |
$96,921 |
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Total |
2 |
$220,353 |
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Claverie, Jerome |
Infrastructure pour le développement de matériaux organiques innovants |
$300,000 |
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Total |
1 |
$300,000 |
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Rautio, Milla |
Infrastructure for Boreal and Polar Aquatic Research |
$104,200 |
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Total |
1 |
$104,200 |
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Jenabian, Mohammad-Ali |
The Role of Regulatory T Cells in HIV Infection and Mucosal Immunity |
$92,000 |
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Total |
1 |
$92,000 |
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La Charité, Claude |
Bibliothèques, ateliers d'écriture et géopoétique de l'estuaire et du golfe Saint-Laurent |
$82,129 |
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Robert, Dominique |
Infrastructure pour la Chaire de recherche du Canada en écologie halieutique |
$126,165 |
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Total |
2 |
$208,294 |
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Creech, Andrea |
Mobile Laboratory for Research in Music in Community |
$107,012 |
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Fradet-Turcotte, Amélie |
Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Genomic Instability |
$119,972 |
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Total |
2 |
$226,984 |
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Ainslie, Philip |
Integrative Cerebrovascular Physiology Laboratory |
$110,000 |
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Hamlin, Kiley |
Attention and Psychophysiology Measurement Equipment |
$51,600 |
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Haney, Cara |
Identification of Host and Bacterial Genes Required for Plant-Microbiome Interactions |
$144,000 |
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Johnson, Mark |
Advancing Research in Ecohydrology Through Analysis of Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes of CO2 |
$30,000 |
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Total |
4 |
$335,600 |
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Rice, Carla |
Project Re•Vision: Mobilizing New Meanings of Difference |
$31,788 |
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Rogers , Michael |
Simulating Digestion for Food Nanotechnology Assessment |
$198,000 |
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Total |
2 |
$229,788 |
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Wiseman, Steven |
Establishment of a Mechanistic Toxicology Facility |
$121,557 |
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Total |
1 |
$121,557 |
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Ghorbani, Ali-Akbar |
Intelligence-driven Cybersecurity Tools and Techniques |
$125,000 |
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Total |
1 |
$125,000 |
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Chen, Simon |
Fast Two-Photon Resonance Microscope System for Advanced In Vivo Imaging of Brain Plasticity in Awake and Behaving Mice |
$372,011 |
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Total |
1 |
$372,011 |
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Price, Eric |
Radiopharmaceuticals for Imaging and Treating Cancer and Bacterial Infections |
$125,000 |
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Total |
1 |
$125,000 |
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Newman, Lenore |
Agricultural Applications of Remote Aerial Sensing |
$35,400 |
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Total |
1 |
$35,400 |
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Andreazza, Ana |
Creation of a Laboratory to Study Redox Modulations in Mood Disorders |
$124,995 |
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Bonin, Robert |
Establishment of a Sensory Neuroplasticity Platform at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Toronto |
$159,348 |
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Gingras, Anne-Claude |
Functional Proteomics |
$399,980 |
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Goldstein, Abby |
Preventing Risk and Promoting Well-Being in Emerging Adulthood |
$207,626 |
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Kerman, Kagan |
Tissue Culture Facility for Bioanalytical Sensors |
$48,078 |
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Pardee, Keith |
Synthetic Biology in Human Health |
$160,000 |
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Treanor, Bebhinn |
Spatially-Resolved Biochemistry |
$50,000 |
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Vutha, Amar |
Precision Physics with Atoms and Molecules |
$280,000 |
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Total |
8 |
$1,430,027 |
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Craig, James |
Computing Infrastructure to Support the Canada Research Chair in Environmental Modelling and Analysis |
$50,000 |
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Li, Ming |
Deep Learning Facilities |
$120,000 |
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Roy, Pierre-Nicholas |
Quantum Dynamics of Confined Molecules |
$25,000 |
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Total |
3 |
$195,000 |
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Kramer, Jamie |
Epigenetic Regulation of Learning and Memory |
$193,280 |
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Total |
1 |
$193,280 |
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TOTAL |
49 projects |
$6,679,870 |
NOTE: As part of this announcement, an additional $2,003,961 was awarded under the Infrastructure Operating Fund, a mechanism that assists institutions with the incremental operating and maintenance costs associated with the new infrastructure.