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Established in 2004, the NSERC Innovation Challenge Awards were awarded as a way to encourage students pursuing graduate studies in the natural sciences or engineering to develop their entrepreneurial spirit. The awards successfully helped student entrepreneurs on the road to achieving their goals: around twenty start-up companies were established; and more than 80% of those who received the award said it had a positive influence on their career. As there are now many award options available to budding entrepreneurs, the NSERC Innovation Challenge Awards are no longer available.
Past Winners
$10,000
David Labbe
$5,000
Jamu Alford
Device to improve MRI based molecular imaging
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, formerly of The University of Western Ontario, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Alfred Lam
Novel membraneless direct methanol fuel cell and power method
The University of British Columbia, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering$1,500
Muhammad Arsalan and Atif Shamim
Wireless dosimeter for radiotherapy applications
Carleton University, Department of Electronics
Irena Barbulovic-Nad
Digital microfluidics – New tool for drug discovery
University of Toronto, Institute for Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
Blake Erb
Run-around membrane energy exchanger performance and operational control strategies
University of Saskatchewan, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Suresh Neethirajan
Development of carbon dioxide sensor for grain quality monitoring
University of Manitoba, Department of Biosystems Engineering
Xiulei Ji
Lithium sulfur batteries
University of Waterloo, Department of Chemistry
Joel Pel
Selective DNA extraction from contaminated samples using SCODA
The University of British Columbia, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Daniel Kirouac