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2020 Research Grants Competition - Results by Institution

The University of Western Ontario
Applicant name Program Title EG Term Amount awarded
Bai, Donglin
Department
Physiology and Pharmacology
RGPIN Molecular domains determining gap junction channel properties 1501 5 $36,000.00
Banerjee, Neil
Department
Earth Sciences
RTI Critical Replacement of Departmental X-ray Diffractometer Instrumentation 1606 1 $144,774.00
Bartha, Robert
Department
Robarts Research Institute
RGPIN Magnetic Resonance Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer Imaging of Intracellular pH 1505 5 $50,000.00
Batterink, Laura
Department
Psychology
RTI EEG equipment for studies of sleep and cognition 1602 1 $149,920.00
Bernards, Mark
Department
Biology
RTI Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer for GC-based analysis of small molecules 1602 1 $150,000.00
Blacquiere, Johanna
Department
Chemistry
RGPIN Structurally- and Proton-Responsive Ligands for Sustainable Catalysis 1504 5 $48,000.00
Bodell, Lindsay
Department
Psychology
RGPIN Biobehavioral Mechanisms Underlying Non-homeostatic Eating 1502 5 $28,000.00
Brandl, Christopher
Department
Biochemistry
RGPIN Mistranslation and Synthetic Biology 1501 5 $32,000.00
Bravo Roman, Cristian
Department
Statistical and Actuarial Sciences
RGPIN Artificial Intelligence Methods for Fair and Transparent Credit Risk Rating Systems 1509 5 $36,000.00
Capretz, Luiz
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
RGPIN Software Testing is Serious Business: A Holistic Approach 1507 5 $24,000.00
Chortos, Alex
Department
Chemistry
RGPIN Elastomer Development and Processing for 3D Electrostatic Actuators 1511 5 $33,000.00
Cipriano, Lauren
Department
Richard Ivey School of Business
RGPIN Optimal resource allocation and technology adoption in dynamic systems 1509 5 $31,000.00
Corless, Robert
Department
Applied Mathematics
RGPIN Hybrid Symbolic-Numeric Algorithms for Complex Nonlinear Systems 1507 5 $29,000.00
Daley, Mark
Department
Computer Science
RGPIN Natural computing in the brain: geometry, criticality, and fusion. 1507 5 $38,748.00
Davison, Matthew
Department
Statistical and Actuarial Sciences
RGPIN Real Options for Planning, Operating, and Analyzing Energy Systems 1509 5 $36,000.00
de Ribaupierre, Sandrine
Department
Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
RGPIN Imaging the development of the auditory network - from fetus to toddler 1502 5 $47,000.00
Di Guglielmo, Gianni
Department
Physiology and Pharmacology
RGPIN Molecular mechanisms regulating lung development 1501 5 $32,000.00
El Naggar, Hesham
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering
RGPIN Design of sustainable and resilient geotechnical infrastructure for transportation systems 1509 5 $88,000.00
Escobar Anel, Marcos
Department
Statistical and Actuarial Sciences
RGPIN Dynamic Portfolio Optimization Problems in Finance and Insurance. 1508 5 $31,000.00
Essex, Aleksander
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
RGPIN Privacy, Identity and Trust in Electronic Voting Technologies 1507 5 $41,000.00
Fanchini, Giovanni
Department
Physics and Astronomy
RTI Urgent repair and upgrade of high-vacuum variable-temperature scanning probe microscope 1605 1 $138,624.00
Fanchini, Giovanni
Department
Physics and Astronomy
RGPIN Laboratory of semiconducting and photoactive post-graphene 2D materials, nanomaterials and nanocomposites 1505 5 $41,000.00
Foster, Paula
Department
Robarts Research Institute
RGPIN Development of Magnetic Particle Imaging 1505 5 $75,000.00
Franz, Matthias
Department
Mathematics
RGPIN Higher homotopy algebras in transformation groups 1508 5 $18,000.00
Friesen, Deanna
Department
Education, Faculty of
RGPIN Individual Differences in Comprehension Monitoring During Text Processing 1502 5 $24,000.00
Gaede, Stewart
Department
Medical Biophysics
RGPIN Development of a non-invasive real-time tumour motion tracking method using surface-guided radiation therapy 1505 5 $24,000.00
Goncharova, Lyudmila
Department
Physics and Astronomy
RGPIN Ion beams: creating functionalities and probing interfaces in materials 1505 5 $28,000.00
Guglielmo, Christopher
Department
Biology
RGPIN Migration physiology and energetics of birds and bats 1502 5 $78,000.00
Hamilton, Douglas
Department
Anatomy and Cell Biology
RGPIN Combining substratum compliance and topography to investigate cell adhesion and contraction 1501 5 $32,000.00
Hampson, Elizabeth
Department
Psychology
RGPIN Androgens and Estrogens in the Human Nervous System 1502 5 $55,000.00
Henry, Hugh
Department
Biology
RGPIN Winter as a driver of nitrogen cycle responses to environmental change: responses of leguminous plants to variability in freezing 1502 5 $47,000.00
Holdsworth, David
Department
Medical Biophysics
RGPIN Image-based 3D-printing for biomedical applications 1512 5 $32,000.00
Jardine, John
Department
Mathematics
RGPIN Applications of Homotopy Theory 1508 5 $21,000.00
Karas, Bogumil
Department
Biochemistry
RTI A fluorescent microscopy suite for visualization of synthetic organelles and cells. 1601 1 $149,800.00
Kerfoot, Steven
Department
Microbiology and Immunology
RTI Upgrades to an advanced multiphoton microscope with unique equipment to improve tissue access for intravital imaging and improved image stability 1601 1 $105,961.00
Lagugnι-Labarthet, Franηois
Department
Chemistry
RTI Urgent replacement of a power supply of an electron-beam evaporator for thin films deposition 1604 1 $57,256.00
Lagugnι-Labarthet, Franηois
Department
Chemistry
RGPIN Plasmonic metamaterials: enabling new routes for localized surface chemistry. 1504 5 $64,000.00
Lajoie, Gilles
Department
Biochemistry
RGPIN Development of new and innovative strategies in biological mass spectrometry and proteomics 1501 5 $50,000.00
Li, Shawn
Department
Biochemistry
RTI A nano-LC system to enable functional proteomics research 1602 1 $137,302.00
Litchfield, David
Department
Biochemistry
RGPIN Application of a Chemical Biology Toolkit to Decipher Kinase Activity in Time and Space. 1501 5 $49,000.00
Liu, Lijia
Department
Chemistry
RGPIN Characterization of Light-Emitting Inorganic Nanomaterials using Synchrotron Radiation Spectroscopy 1504 5 $24,000.00
Long, Jed
Department
Geography
RGPIN Data fusion methods for combining remote sensing and wildlife tracking data 1506 5 $25,000.00
Lu, Wei-Yang
Department
Robarts Research Institute
RGPIN Regulation of Esophageal Motility by NO-producing Neurons in the Brainstem 1502 5 $33,000.00
Mattonen, Sarah
Department
Medical Biophysics
RGPIN Heterogeneous data fusion and machine learning for image understanding in lung cancer 1505 5 $24,000.00
McNeil, Jeremy
Department
Biology
RGPIN Monarch fall migration, overwintering mortality and the effects of defence compounds released by decomposing butterflies on the soil ecosystem. 1503 5 $33,000.00
Melling, C.W. James
Department
Kinesiology, School of
RGPIN Sex differences in the glucoregulatory response to acute and recurrent exercise. 1502 5 $28,000.00
Mequanint, Kibret
Department
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
RTI Magnetic Tweezer Force Spectroscopy for Mechanotransduction Studies 1611 1 $150,000.00
Mercer, Robert
Department
Computer Science
RGPIN Argumentation in scholarly biomedical literature: Computational theory, implementation, and supporting deep learning software 1507 5 $41,000.00
Moehring, Amanda
Department
Biology
RGPIN The genetic and neural basis of female behaviours in Drosophila. 1501 5 $69,000.00
Morbey, Yolanda
Department
Biology
RGPIN Models of avian migration: development and empirical tests using automated radio-telemetry 1503 5 $28,000.00
Newson, Timothy
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering
RGPIN Development of foundations for renewable energy technologies 1509 5 $26,000.00
Osinski, Gordon
Department
Earth Sciences
RTI The Western Interdisciplinary Drone Laboratory 1606 1 $124,299.00
Ossenkopp, Klaus-Peter
Department
Psychology
RGPIN Immune, Hormonal and Neural Mechanisms of Ingestive Behavior 1502 5 $28,000.00
Paul, Arghya
Department
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
RGPIN Engineered Mineral Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites: A Versatile Multifunctional Platform for 3D Bioprinting and Tissue Engineering 1511 5 $38,000.00
Peeters, Els
Department
Physics and Astronomy
RGPIN Infrared studies of large carbonaceous molecules. 1505 5 $50,000.00
Peters, Terence
Department
Robarts Research Institute
RGPIN Development and Evaluation of Hybrid Virtual Reality Simulators for Clinical Training 1510 5 $55,000.00
Pickering, J. Geoffrey
Department
Robarts Research Institute
RGPIN Endothelial Cell Dynamics in Low Flow 1501 5 $42,000.00
Pinsonnault, Martin
Department
Mathematics
RGPIN Symplectic topology and equivariant geometry 1508 5 $18,000.00
Polouchine, Ilia
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
RGPIN SCATTERING-BASED CONTROL DESIGN FOR INTERCONNECTED AND NETWORKED SYSTEMS 1510 5 $46,000.00
Power, Christopher
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering
RGPIN Advancing non-invasive geoelectrical methods for imaging soil and groundwater contaminants 1509 5 $26,000.00
Prato, Frank
Department
Medical Biophysics
RGPIN Advances in Hybrid PET/MRI Cardiac Imaging 1505 5 $34,000.00
Rehmann, Lars
Department
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
RGPIN Biochemical and physiochemical processes for resource valorization 1511 5 $39,000.00
Reyhani-Masoleh, Arash
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
RGPIN Computer Arithmetic for Cryptography and Reliable Security: Algorithms and Architectures 1510 5 $33,000.00
Seguin, Cheryle
Department
Physiology and Pharmacology
RGPIN Regulation of mechanotransduction in the intervertebral disc 1501 5 $42,000.00
Sendov, Hristo
Department
Statistical and Actuarial Sciences
RGPIN Geometry of Polynomials, Operator-Valued Maps, Polar and Non-Commutative Convex Analysis 1508 5 $27,000.00
Shafikov, Rasul
Department
Mathematics
RGPIN Geometric Methods in Complex Analysis 1508 5 $21,000.00
Shcherbakov, Robert
Department
Earth Sciences
RGPIN Physics and Statistics of Earthquake Processes 1506 5 $30,000.00
Siddiqui, Kamran
Department
Mechanical and Materials Engineering
RTI Advanced Particle Image Velocimetry System 1612 1 $143,280.00
Solis-Oba, Roberto
Department
Computer Science
RGPIN Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems 1507 5 $24,000.00
Song, Yang
Department
Chemistry
RGPIN Enabling and advancing novel functional materials under extreme conditions for energy applications 1504 5 $24,000.00
Staples, James
Department
Biology
RGPIN Metabolic suppression in mammalian hibernation - Mechanisms and implications 1502 5 $55,000.00
Staroverov, Viktor
Department
Chemistry
RGPIN Development and Application of Nonempirical Density-Functional Methods 1504 5 $64,000.00
Stathopulos, Peter
Department
Physiology and Pharmacology
RGPIN Molecular mechanisms regulating the form and function of atypical calcium sensor proteins. 1501 5 $36,000.00
Stathopulos, Peter
Department
Physiology and Pharmacology
RTI Microscale thermophoresis for assessing diverse molecular interactions. 1601 1 $150,000.00
Stentoft, Lars
Department
Economics
RGPIN Option Pricing with Multivariate GARCH Models 1508 5 $27,000.00
Stillman, Martin
Department
Chemistry
RGPIN Bioinorganic chemistry of metalloproteins and tetrapyrroles 1504 5 $36,000.00
Stojanoski, Bobby
Department
Psychology
RGPIN Investigating the development of higher-level cognition from childhood to adolescence 1502 5 $24,000.00
Thompson, Graham
Department
Biology
RGPIN Genetic basis of social behavior in honey bee and other insect models 1501 5 $50,000.00
Tornabene, Livio
Department
Earth Sciences
RGPIN An intensive study of impact craters to probe and gauge the complex geologic history of Mars and to further understand cratering as a formative process on terrestrial bodies 1506 5 $30,000.00
Trejos, Ana Luisa
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
RGPIN Wearable Mechatronic Garments for Motion Assistance 1510 5 $39,000.00
Trichtchenko, Olga
Department
Physics and Astronomy
RGPIN Methods for Solving Nonlinear Differential Equations Describing Water Waves 1508 5 $18,000.00
Vidotto, Francesca
Department
Applied Mathematics
RGPIN Loop Quantum Gravity: from Computation to Phenomenology 1505 5 $24,000.00
Wang, Aiming
Department
Biology
RGPIN Molecular Plant-Virus Interactions: Defense and Counter-defense 1501 5 $58,000.00
Wang, Boyu
Department
Computer Science
RGPIN Knowledge Transfer in Artificial Intelligence Systems 1507 5 $29,000.00
Youssef, Maged
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering
RGPIN Structural Assessment and Repair of Superelastic-Shape-Memory-Alloy Reinforced-Concrete Framed Structures Following Exposure to Seismic and/or Fire Events 1509 5 $31,000.00
Yu, Pei
Department
Applied Mathematics
RGPIN Complex Dynamics in Biological Systems: A Bifurcation Theory Approach 1508 5 $27,000.00
Zhu, Yayuan
Department
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
RGPIN Advanced Regression and Prediction Methods in Event History Data Analysis 1508 5 $18,000.00