Congratulations to our funding recipients. The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) is a non-profit corporation that invests in research infrastructure at Canadian universities, colleges, research hospitals and non-profit research institutions.
Acadia University
Dr. Anne Sophie Champod and Dr. Daniel Lametti
Associate Professors, Psychology
Project: Acadia Centre for Neuroscience and Cognitive Health
Funding Contribution: $371,012.00
CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)
Cape Breton University
Dr. Lachlan MacKinnon
Associate Professor, Humanities
Project: Expanding Capacity: Digital Humanities Approaches to Understanding Post-Industrial Communities
Funding Contribution: $89,895.00
CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)
Dr. Vielka Salazar
Associate Professor, Biology
Project: Research infrastructure to support molecular and imaging applications
Funding Contribution: $74,997.00
CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)
Dalhousie University
Dr. Brandon Heung
Assistant Professor, Agriculture
Project: Infrastructure for a Soil-Landscape Analysis & Modelling Lab
Funding Contribution: $75,001.00
CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)
Dr. Noreen Kamal
Assistant Professor, Engineering
Project: Health Care System Optimization and Analytics
Funding Contribution: $75,001.00
CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)
Dr. Sherry Stewart
Professor, Medicine
Project: Univenture: A substance use prevention intervention for university students
Funding Contribution: $147,997.00
CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)
Dr. Shashi Gujar
Assistant Professor, Pathology
Project: Immuno-Metabolomics for the Next Generation of Cancer Immunotherapies
Funding Contribution: $503,394.00
CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)
Dr. Fraser Clark
Agriculture
Project: Assessing Future Disease Risks for Commercial Crustacean Fisheries in Canada
Funding Contribution: $75,001.00
CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)
Dr. Debbie Martin
Professor, Health Promotion, Tier II Canada Research Chair, Indigenous Peoples Health and Well-Being
Project: Transforming Community-Led Indigenous Health Research in Atlantic Canada
Funding Contribution: $115,000.00
CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)
Dr. Ruth Musgrave
Assistant Professor, Science
Project: Observing oceanic turbulence using an autonomous glider
Funding Contribution: $85,001.00
CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)
Dr. Ghada Koleilat
Assistant Professor, Engineering
Project: Advanced Materials for Energy Applications
Funding Contribution: $100,000.00
CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)
Dr. Ali Nasiri
Assistant Professor & Canada Research Chair in Ocean Engineering
Project: Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing of Large-Scale Parts from Stainless Steels and Corrosion Resistant Alloys
Funding Contribution: $100,000.00
CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)
Dr. Fadi Oudah
Assistant Professor, Engineering
Project: Hybrid Simulation of Self-Repairing Concrete Structures
Funding Contribution: $100,000.00
CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)
Dr. Matthew Numer
Professor and Division Head, Health Promotion
Project: Sexual Health And Gender (SHAG) Research Program
Funding Contribution: $113,251.00
CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)
Mount Saint Vincent University
Dr. Christine Lackner
Associate Professor, Psychology
Project: EEG System and Recording Chambers
Funding Contribution: $129,324.00
CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)
Dr. Chérif Matta
Professor, Chemistry & Physics
Project: Computational Investigations of Molecular Evolutionary Quantum Biochemistry and Mitochondrial Biophysics
Funding Contribution: $30,638.00
CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)
Dr. Jennifer Khoury
Assistant Professor, Psychology, Tier II Canada Research Chair in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience
Project: An Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Approach to Reducing the Burden of Early Life Stress
Funding Contribution: $87,611.00
CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)
St. Francis Xavier University
Dr. Tamara Rodela
Assistant Professor, Biology
Project: Comparative and Environmental Physiology Facility (CEPF)
Funding Contribution: $74,065.00
CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)
Dr. Erwan Bertin
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Project: Pulsed Laser Ablation in Liquids – A new green technique to prepare electrocatalysts
Funding Contribution: $74,985.00
CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)
Dr. Russell Wyeth, Dr. Cory Bishop, and Dr. Jantina Toxopeus
Biology
Project: Laser scanning confocal microscope for cellular studies of biofouling, neuroanatomy, symbiosis and freeze tolerance
Funding Contribution: $200,000.00
CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)
Dr. Britney Benoit
Assistant Professor, Nursing
Project: Optimizing the Measurement and Management of Infant Pain: A Translational Clinical Program of Research
Funding Contribution: $62,566.00
CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)
Saint Mary’s University
Dr. Erin Adlakha
Associate Professor, Geology
Project: Characterizing Alteration Footprints of Hydrothermal Ore Deposits Using SuperLight Element Micro-X-Ray Fluorescence
Funding Contribution: $228,745.00
CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)
Dr. Erin Cameron
Associate Professor, Environmental Science
Project: Global change impacts on soil invertebrates
Funding Contribution: $168,633.00
CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)