Location

Institution

Lead Researcher

Project

Provincial Funding

Greater Toronto Area

University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Dr. Shari Forbes

Helping law enforcement solve murder cases and food safety authorities develop better standards based on decomposition rates

$125,000

Greater Toronto Area

Ryerson University

Dr. Sridhar Krishnan

Developing non-invasive diagnostic tools

$100,654

Greater Toronto Area

Ryerson University

Dr. Victor Yang

Developing an exciting emerging medical imaging technology

$125,000

Greater Toronto Area

York University

Dr. Kari Hoffman

Determining the connection between perception and memory formation

$197,526

Greater Toronto Area

York University

Dr. Dorota Crawford

Discovering what causes autism

$203,494

Greater Toronto Area

York University

Dr. Gerald Audette and Dr. Vivan Saridakis

Determining the biological function of proteins

$641,992

Greater Toronto Area

York University

Dr. Derek Wilson

Uncovering how proteins function

$201,412

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Dana Philpott

Developing new therapies for serious inflammatory diseases

$124,754

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Jennifer Gommerman and Dr. Cindi Morshead

Developing regenerative medicine therapies for neurodegenerative diseases

$210,438

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Claudiu Gradinaru

An innovative microscope for dynamics studying of biological molecules

$232,000

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Axel Guenther

Revolutionizing drug discovery

$100,000

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Jason Moffat

Identifying genes that promote adaptive evolution

$391,086

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Gary Bader

Developing a public library of all known biological processes

$142,517

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Hiroshi Suzuki

Developing better diagnostics and treatments for neurodegenerative diseases

$163,998

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Lidan You

Developing a way to regenerate bone

$100,000

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Jason Plaks

Learning more about how human personality works

$71,165

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Agnes Wong, Dr. Doug Cheyne, Dr. Margot Taylor

Developing treatments for lazy eye, the number one cause of monocular blindness

$399,988

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Yana Yunusova

Advancing early detection of ALS

$63,901

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Bernard Le Foll

Creating new medications to treat tobacco addiction

$200,000

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Rüdiger von Harsdorf

Developing a non-invasive treatment for heart failure

$258,163

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Lakshmi Kotra

Designing new drugs for infectious diseases

$396,580

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Subodh Verma

Bringing new treatments for cardiovascular disease to clinical trial faster

$129,455

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. David Haley

Exploring the link between stress and early brain development

$40,000

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Eli Sone

Developing treatments for periodontal disease

$180,000

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Marc Mengehini

Exploring how cells function

$179,999

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Frank Sicheri, Dr. Helen McNeill, Dr. Jim Woodgett

Exploring a new growth and tissue organization pathway to develop better treatments for cancer

$396,840

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Laura-Ann Petitto

Devising ways for educators to better teach immigrant children

$141,781

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Jennifer Tackett

Preventing and treating antisocial behaviour in children

$75,263

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Ofer Levi

Designing miniaturized sensors to Improve diagnosis of serious illnesses

$150,000

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Art Petronis

Developing ways to reverse disease

$217,373

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Lee Adamson, Dr. Isabella Caniggia, Dr. Robert Casper

Developing interventions to improve fertility rates and mother and neonatal survival

$390,545

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Patrick Gunning

Beating cancer with a cutting-edge treatment

$131,890

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Elizabeth Johnson

Discovering how language develops in infants

$78,145

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Voula Kanelis

Uncovering the molecular basis of diseases

$80,000

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Kenneth Croitoru

Getting to the bottom of what causes inflammatory bowel diseases

$43,815

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Andrew Emili

Accelerating biomarker discovery to improve diagnosis and treatment for diseases

$135,268

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Alan Moses

Understanding the systems that regulate gene activity

$88,000

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Carolyn Cummins

Identifying new drug targets for diabetes

$176,169

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Phillip Sherman

Developing an effective treatment for inflammatory bowel disease

$170,939

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. William Stanford

Advancing regenerative medicine to repair diseased or injured tissues

$100,000

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Belinda Chang

Discovering more about the molecular mechanisms underlying vision and visual disease

$20,000

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Dina Brooks

Devising better rehabilitation therapies for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

$96,718

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Stuart Foster

Developing systems to see painlessly inside the body

$268,577

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. M. B. Sokolowski

Developing better treatments for people suffering from food disorders

$261,609

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. David Barner

Exploring how language develops

$100,000

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Anthony Gramolini

Understanding heart failure

$200,000

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Maydianne Andrade

Studying how the environment impacts on mating

$230,000

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Andrea Jurisicova

Improving fertility rates

$344,432

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Martin Post

Developing ways for immature lungs to cope

$93,103

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Elise Stanley

Laying the groundwork for more effective psychiatric treatments

$393,311

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Tak Mak

Developing targeted therapies for breast cancer

$379,702

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Barry Sessle

Understanding how people experience pain

$121,662

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Peter Newman

Developing successful ways to promote sustained community engagement in HIV vaccine development

$126,912

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Laurence Pelletier

Using living cells to identify the proteins that regulate centrosome function

$325,178

Greater Toronto Area

University of Toronto

Dr. Bryan Stewart

Unlocking the mysteries of the brain to better treat neurological diseases

$43,428

Guelph

University of Guelph

Dr. Emma Allen-Vercoe

Uncovering the mysteries about bacteria in our digestive system

$148,149

Guelph

University of Guelph

Dr. David Pearl

Preventing animal transmitted diseases

$75,963

Hamilton

McMaster University

Dr. Eleana Verdu

Identifying novel therapies for Irritable Bowel Syndrome

$134,461

Hamilton

McMaster University

Dr. Peter Keir,

Dr. Jim Potvin

Preventing workplace injury by assessing injury risk when designing work methods

$225,000

Hamilton

McMaster University

Dr. Alexandru Patricui

Developing “smart” robots for difficult surgical procedures

$69,317

Hamilton

McMaster University

Dr. David Feinberg

How perceptions of voices and faces help explain how we form relationships

$56,932

Hamilton

McMaster University

Dr. Sheila Singh

Determining what causes brain tumours in children

$290,365

Hamilton

McMaster University

Dr. Christopher Wynder

Getting a better understanding of human disease as it relates to changes in the way genes express themselves

$167,407

Hamilton

McMaster University

Dr. David Andrews

Studying the proteins critical to development of acquired and genetic diseases

$90,676

Hamilton

McMaster University

Dr. Jonathan Dushoff

Understanding how infectious diseases spread in our global world

$67,284

Hamilton

McMaster University

Dr. Natalia Nikolova

Advancing microwave imaging for non-invasive detection of problems

$111,391

Hamilton

McMaster University

Dr. Ramesh Balasubramaniam

Discovering more about the functioning of the nervous system

$284,596

Kingston

Queen’s University

Dr. Michael Adams, Dr. Anne Croy

Developing new strategies to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease

$161,021

Kingston

Queen’s University

Dr. Craig Hawryshyn, Dr. Ian Chin-Sang, Dr. Paul Young

Improving treatments for eye diseases, cancer and HIV

$302,250

Kingston

Queen’s University

Dr. Colin Funk, Dr. Peter Greer

Making cardiovascular and cancer disease prevention and treatment more effective

$238,731

Kingston

Queen’s University

Dr. Victor Tron

Developing new treatments for skin cancer

$96,339

Kingston

Queen’s University

Dr. Katrina Gee

Improving our understanding of immune damage from HIV

$176,000

Kingston

Queen’s University

Dr. Linda Levesque, Dr. Sudeep Gill, Dr. Ana Johnson

Improving the safety and effectiveness of medications

$438,556

Kingston

Queen’s University

Dr. Monica Castelhano

Uncovering how we sort out relevant from irrelevant information

$98,040

Kingston

Queen’s University

Dr. Kevin Deluzio

Developing better treatments for musculoskeletal disease

$350,000

Kingston

Queen’s University

Dr. Brian Amsden, Dr. Stephen Waldman, Dr. Stephen Pang

Using regenerative medicine to treat degenerative cardiovascular and orthopaedic disorders

$383,849

Kingston

Queen’s University

Dr. Bruce Banfield

Developing new treatments for herpes-related diseases

$160,000

Kingston

Queen’s University

Dr. Robert Lemieux, Dr. Cathleen Crudden, Dr. Hans-Peter Loock

Developing medical drugs faster and at less cost

$294,493

Kingston

Queen’s University

Dr. Catherine M. Cahill

Determining what causes chronic nerve pain to develop better treatments

$24,707

Waterloo

University of Waterloo

Dr. Jamie Joseph

Developing new approaches for diabetes treatment by studying insulin secreting beta cells

$251,487

Waterloo

University of Waterloo

Dr.  Kam Chiu Tam

Laboratory for Physical and Thermodynamic Characterization of Novel Nanostructures for Applications in Chemical and Biological Systems

$146,000

Waterloo

University of Waterloo

Dr. Aimee Nelson

Uncovering the cause of focal hand dystonia

$40,000

Waterloo

University of Waterloo

Dr. James Danckert

Furthering our understanding of how the brain directs behaviour

$361,323

Waterloo

University of Waterloo

Dr. Zoya Leonenko

Advancing our knowledge of amyloid-related diseases like Alzheimer’s

$180,000

London

The University of Western Ontario

Dr. Kevin Shoemaker

Developing strategies to prevent and repair damage to the cardio-vascular system

$337,200

London

The University of Western Ontario

Dr. Stephen Lomber

Testing cochlear ear implants

$179,997

London

The University of Western Ontario

Dr. Eugene Wong

Advancing radiation treatment for cancers

$235,181

London

The University of Western Ontario

Dr. Alison Allan

Discovering how tumour cells spread to other organs

$159,823

London

The University of Western Ontario

Dr. Richard Kim

Developing individualized drug therapy

$222,258

London

The University of Western Ontario

Dr. John Lewis

Using nanotechnology to detect early-stage cancer

$205,418

London

The University of Western Ontario

Dr. Lynne-Marie Postovit

Identifying new pathways for cancer treatment

$173,586

London

The University of Western Ontario

Dr. Mansour Haeryfar

Developing more effective therapies for viral infections

$199,036

London

The University of Western Ontario

Dr. Jim Karagiannis

Studying cells to gain insight into how diseases develop

$153,259

London

The University of Western Ontario

Dr. Cynthia Dunning

Developing treatments for orthopaedic disorders by learning more about the skeletal system

$172,380

Ottawa

Carleton University

Dr. Matthew Holahan, Dr. Alfonso Abizaid

Uncovering how childhood obesity affects brain function later in life

$250,000

Ottawa

Carleton University

Dr. Michel Dumontier

Positioning Ontario as a leader in proteomics

$114,627

Ottawa

Carleton University

Dr. Hymie Anisman

Stress and well-being

$81,634

Ottawa

University of Ottawa

Dr. Leanne Ward

Developing therapies to ensure good bone health in children and adolescents

$100,000

Ottawa

University of Ottawa

Dr. Michael Jonz

Advancing our knowledge of how animals survive environmental change

$99,885

Ottawa

University of Ottawa

Dr. Duncan Stewart

Developing new therapies to treat cardiopulmonary disease

$294,000

Ottawa

University of Ottawa

Dr. Norbert Hübner

Advancing treatment for coronary artery disease

$345,000

Ottawa

University of Ottawa

Dr. Isabelle Catelas

Devising new approaches to increase the life of hip and knee replacements

$129,384

Ottawa

University of Ottawa

Dr. Tracy Vaillancourt

Investigating the cause(s) of bullying

$99,720

Ottawa

University of Ottawa

Dr. Jean-Francois Couture

Identifying the molecular determinants that trigger disease

$390,807

Ottawa

University of Ottawa

Dr. Alexandre Blais

Treating muscle diseases at the cellular level.

$105,178

Ottawa

University of Ottawa

Dr. Kumanan Wilson

Promoting public health policy

$40,477

Ottawa

University of Ottawa

Dr. Anthony Bella

Understanding peripheral nerve damage to develop drugs to promote nerve regeneration

$66,666

Ottawa

University of Ottawa

Dr. Daniel Benoit

Developing better detection and rehabilitation strategies for balance and mobility problems

$297,871

Ottawa

University of Ottawa

Dr. Jeffrey Mielke, Dr. Marc Brunelle

Discovering how language develops

$107,933

Ottawa

University of Ottawa

Dr. Mary Cheng

Exploring the basis of dysfunctional biological “clocks”

$310,000

St. Catharines

Brock University

Dr. Veena Dwivedi

Determining how the brain processes language

$83,875

St. Catharines

Brock University

Dr. Stephen Cheung

Exploring how heat and cold affect people’s performance

$82,540

Sudbury

Laurentian University

Dr. Diana Coholic, Dr. Mark Eys, Dr. Robert Schinke

Developing strategies to increase physical activity

$63,943

Sudbury

Laurentian University

Dr. Thomas Merrit, Dr. Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde, Dr. David Lesbarrères

Conducting advanced genetics research

$131,178

Windsor

University of Windsor

Dr. Huiming Zhang

Discovering how the brain processes what we hear

$50,000

Windsor

University of Windsor

Dr. Andrew Swan

Determining how cells work

$50,000