BACKGROUNDER
April 24 , 2007
ONTARIO RESEARCH FUND PROJECTS
Under the Ontario Research Fund, the McGuinty government is investing $527 million to provide Ontario’s researchers with operating, overhead and capital funding to support leading-edge research and development in Ontario’s universities, institutes and hospitals. Through the Ontario Research Fund’s Research Infrastructure program, this round of funding will provide over $103 million to support 35 innovative projects in communities across the province.
Location |
Institution |
Lead Researcher |
Project |
Provincial |
Greater |
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health |
Dr. Sylvain Houle |
Enhancing the University of Toronto Imaging Research Network |
$2,200,000 |
Greater |
Ryerson University |
Dr. Michael Kolios |
Advanced Biomedical Ultrasound Imaging and Spectroscopy Laboratory |
$392,225 |
Greater |
Ryerson University |
Dr. Tony Hernandez |
Research Infrastructure for Spatial Analysis and Business Geomatics |
$424,843 |
Greater |
Ryerson University |
Dr. Ling Guan |
Centre for Interactive Multimedia Information Mining |
$650,000 |
Greater |
The Hospital for Sick Children |
Dr. Martin Post |
Centre for the Study of Complex Childhood Diseases |
$8,228,769 |
Greater |
The Hospital for Sick Children |
Dr. Carter Snead III |
Centre for the Investigation of Neuroplasticity in Developmental Disorders |
$2,960,117 |
Greater |
University Health Network |
Dr. Igor Jurisica |
Comprehensive Systems Biology Approach to Profiling and Modeling of Cancer |
$4,001,041 |
Greater |
University Health Network |
Dr. John Dick |
Cancer Stem Cell Centre |
$4,293,069 |
Greater |
University Health Network |
Dr. Richard Weisel |
The Regenerative Medicine Project |
$7,200,000 |
Greater |
University Health Network |
Dr. Pamela Catton |
The Electronic Living Laboratory for International Cancer Survivorship Research |
$1,200,000 |
Greater |
University Health Network |
Dr. Katherine Siminovitch |
Disease Genomics: Reduction to Practice |
$4,800,000 |
Greater |
University of Toronto |
Dr. Charles Mims |
An Integrated Centre for Surface and Interfacial Analysis of Advanced Materials |
$1,361,065 |
Greater |
University of Toronto |
Dr. David Guttman |
Centre for Plant Phenogenomics |
$2,002,758 |
Greater |
University of Toronto |
Dr. Lewis Kay |
800-MHz NMR Spectrometer Enhancement |
$531,179 |
Greater |
University of Toronto |
Dr. John Polanyi |
Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Molecular Wires and Corrals |
$308,147 |
Greater |
University of Toronto |
Dr. Jeffrey Packer |
Large-scale Impact and High-Velocity Loading and Sensing Facility for Critical Infrastructure |
$3,228,782 |
Greater |
University of Toronto |
Dr. Andreas Mandelis |
Facility for Advanced Bioacoustophotonics and Biomolecular Microfluidic Photoacoustics |
$661,599 |
Greater |
York University |
Dr. Laurence Packer |
Canadian University Biodiversity Consortium (Ontario component) |
$306,753 |
Guelph |
University of Guelph |
Dr. Jacek Lipkowski |
Enhancement of Infrastructure for Bio-electrochemical and Soft Materials Research |
$2,797,041 |
Guelph |
University of Guelph |
Dr. Paul Garrett |
An Innovative Neutron Detector Array for Nuclear Physics Experiments |
$665,914 |
Guelph |
University of Guelph |
Dr. Stefan Kycia |
The Brockhouse X-Ray Diffraction and Scattering Sector at the Canadian Light Source |
$5,200,046 |
Hamilton |
McMaster University |
Dr. Jamal Deen |
Micro- and Nano-systems Laboratory |
$4,256,725 |
Hamilton |
McMaster University |
Dr. Andrew MacPherson |
Systems Biology Centre of Host-intestinal Bacterial Relationships in Health and Disease |
$1,614,154 |
Hamilton |
McMaster University |
Dr. Stéphane Bouchard |
Canadian Cyberpsychology and Anxiety Virtual Lab (Ontario component) |
$67,413 |
Hamilton |
McMaster University |
Dr. Gerard Wright |
Centre for Microbial Chemical Biology |
$7,824,028 |
Kingston |
Queen's University |
Dr. Douglas Munoz |
Development of New Assessment Tools for Evaluation of Brain Function and Dysfunction |
$7,010,282 |
Kingston |
Queen's University |
Dr. William Pickett |
Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture: National Agricultural Industrial Hygiene Laboratory (Ontario component) |
$33,010 |
London |
St. Joseph's Health Care |
Dr. Frank Prato |
Biomedical Multimodality Hybrid Imaging |
$9,991,000 |
London |
The University of Western Ontario |
Dr. Scott MacDougall-Shackleton |
Advanced Facilities for Avian Research Infrastructure for Studies of Avian Physiology, Neurobiology and Behaviour |
$3,690,573 |
London |
The University of Western Ontario |
Dr. Richard Secco |
Regional Facility for Research on Materials at Extreme Pressure and Temperature Conditions |
$519,823 |
London |
The University of Western Ontario |
Dr. Prudence Allen |
National Centre for Audiology |
$667,154 |
Ottawa |
University of Ottawa |
Dr. Rob Beanlands |
Cardiovascular PET Molecular Imaging Program |
$3,265,852 |
Ottawa |
University of Ottawa |
Dr. Robert Roberts |
Development of a Canadian Cardiovascular Genetics Centre |
$4,713,346 |
Waterloo |
University of Waterloo |
Dr. Michel Fich |
Submillimeter Instruments for Astronomy |
$1,055,106 |
Waterloo |
University of Waterloo |
Dr. Safieddin Safavi-Naeini |
Centre for Intelligent Antenna and Radio Systems |
$5,016,637 |
Total |
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$103,138,451 |
For more information about the Ontario Research Fund, please visit www.ontario.ca/innovation.
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