New Opportunities Fund / Fonds de relève
Backgrounder / Fiche d’information
Ontario
The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) Board of Directors approved a contribution of
$4,440,754 to support 26 infrastructure projects. / Le conseil d’administration de la Fondation
canadienne pour l’innovation (FCI) a approuvé des contributions totalisant 4 440 754 $ en vue
d’appuyer 26 projets d’infrastructure.
Project Title / Titre du projet
Maximum CFI
Contribution /
Contribution
maximale
de la FCI
Carleton University
Advanced Concepts Operating Room Research Simulator
$80,490
1 project / projet
$80,490
Laurentian University / Université Laurentienne
Stopped-flow UV-VIS Spectrophotometer/Spectrofluorometer System for
Investigations on the Mechanism of Anthrax Lethal Factor and Other ZincDependent Metalloproteins
$65,601
1 project / projet
$65,601
Queen's University
Biochemical and Molecular Mechanisms of Peroxisome ProliferatorActivated Receptors (PPARs)-Mediated Influence on Carcinogenesis
Integrative Facility for the Development of Novel Animal Models of
Atherothrombotic Disease
2 projects / projets
$340,000
$60,000
$400,000
University of Guelph
Development of Farm Animal Models for Testing and Amelioration of
Hormonal Treatments in Women: Influences on Ovarian Function and
Consequences for Fertility
$117,693
1 project / projet
$117,693
University of Ottawa / Université d’Ottawa
Collaborative Virtual Presense Modeling, Communications, and Applications
$60,832
Laboratoire des médias audiovisuels pour les cultures et sociétés
(LAMAC&S)
$72,086
2 projects / projets
$132,918
University of Toronto
Autobiographical Memory Laboratory (AML)
$20,906
Cross-Disciplinary Protein Engineering Laboratory
$150,000
Establishment of a Molecular Biology Lab for Research into Tissue
Organization and Growth Control Using Drosophila Melanogaster as a
Model Organism
$357,314
Establishment of a Zebra Fish Aquaculture Facility to Be Used for Molecular
and Genetic Studies of Vertebrate Embryonic Development and
Cardiovascular Biology
$843,449
High Performance Computing Infrastructure for Hybrid and Distributed
Heuristic Search
$75,735
Household-Level Urban Socio-Ecology (HOUSE) Laboratory
$67,619
Infrastructure for Manipulation on the Micro and Nano Scales
$121,782
7 projects / projets
$1,636,805
University of Waterloo
A Portable Laboratory for Studying Human Attention in the Real World
$78,927
High Throughput Research Facility for the Study of Fatty Acids and
Lipidomics on Chronic Disease
$180,000
2 projects / projets
$258,927
University of Western Ontario (The)
Carbon Nano-Structured Material Fabrication Laboratory (CNSMFL)
$190,506
Creating Complex Soil Loading States to Simulate Realistic Geotechnical
Processes
$203,112
Infrastructure for the Study of Naturally Disordered Proteins and Diseases
$182,245
Laboratory for Asymmetric Catalysis Research
$163,375
Meteoroid Environment Optical Research Observing Stations
$223,136
…/ University of Western Ontario (The)
Novel Transplantation Models to Study the Mechanisms of Graft Protection
$61,955
Simulation/Modeling Laboratory for High-Speed Electronic Circuits and
MEMS
$131,133
Systematic Evaluation of Assisted Reproduction
$200,000
8 projects / projets
$1,355,462
York University
A Facility for Long-Term Limnological and Paleoecological Research
$179,302
Analysis of the AGC Kinase Family in Human Disease
$213,556
2 projects / projets
$392,858