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2020 research grants competition - results by peer review committee
| Applicant name | Institution | Program | Title | Term | Amount awarded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adler, Marc Department Chemistry and Biology |
Toronto Metropolitan University | RGPIN | Practical and Powerful Synthetic Organic Methods Using Silanes | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Ariya, Parisa Department Chemistry |
McGill University | RGPIN | Advancing Atmospheric Heterogeneous (Photo)chemistry and Microphysics in the age of Emerging Nanoparticles and Climate Change | 5 | $64,000.00 |
| Aspuru-Guzik, Alán Department Chemistry (St. George Campus) |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | Compact Wave Functions for Classical and Quantum Computers | 5 | $94,000.00 |
| Barriault, Louis Department Chemistry |
University of Ottawa | RGPIN | New Directions in Photoredox Gold Catalysis and Total Synthesis | 5 | $94,000.00 |
| Berezovski, Maxim Department Chemistry |
University of Ottawa | RGPIN | Aptamers for Analysis of Extracellular Vesicles | 5 | $64,000.00 |
| Bertin, Erwan Department Chemistry |
St. Francis Xavier University | RGPIN | Exploring Pulsed Laser Ablation in Liquids as a New Synthetic Path Toward Electrocatalysts | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Bieringer, Mario Department Chemistry |
University of Manitoba | RGPIN | Understanding Inorganic Solid State Reactivity for the Design of Functional Materials | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Biron, Eric Department Pharmacie, Faculté de |
Université Laval | RGPIN | New approaches for the design and synthesis of heterocyclic and macrocyclic bioactive peptidomimetics | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Blacquiere, Johanna Department Chemistry |
The University of Western Ontario | RGPIN | Structurally- and Proton-Responsive Ligands for Sustainable Catalysis | 5 | $48,000.00 |
| Blum, Amy Department Chemistry |
McGill University | RGPIN | Self assembly of nanostructured materials | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Boeré, René Department Chemistry and Biochemistry |
University of Lethbridge | RGPIN | Molecular Electrochemistry as Enabling Technology in Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Boukouvalas, John Department Chimie |
Université Laval | RGPIN | Natural Product Synthesis and Development of Synthesis-Enabling Methodologies | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Britz-McKibbin, Philip Department Chemistry & Chemical Biology |
McMaster University | RGPIN | New Advances in Multisegment Injection-Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectrometry for Accelerating Biomarker Discovery in Metabolomics | 5 | $64,000.00 |
| Brolo, Alexandre Department Chemistry |
University of Victoria | RGPIN | Intensity Fluctuations in Single Molecule Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering | 5 | $79,000.00 |
| Brown, Alexander Department Chemistry |
University of Alberta | RGPIN | Photophysical properties of molecules: From biological imaging to new materials | 5 | $48,000.00 |
| Brumer, Paul Department Chemistry (St. George Campus) |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | Quantum Mechanics and Dynamics of Open Polyatomic Systems | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Bryce, David Department Chemistry |
University of Ottawa | RGPIN | Solid-State NMR Studies of Non-Covalent Interactions. Structure and Dynamics. | 5 | $105,000.00 |
| Cairo, Christopher Department Chemistry |
University of Alberta | RGPIN | Chemical strategies to investigate sialic acid processing enzymes | 5 | $48,000.00 |
| Capicciotti, Chantelle Department Chemistry |
Queen's University | RGPIN | Chemical Biology Tools for Probing and Discovering Glycan-Protein Interactions | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Castagner, Bastien Department Pharmacology and Therapeutics |
McGill University | RGPIN | Synthesis and chemical biology of inositol phosphate analogues with tuned physicochemical properties | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Chen, David Department Chemistry |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Enabling technologies for high performance mass spectrometry applications | 5 | $48,000.00 |
| Chen, Jennifer Department Chemistry |
York University | RGPIN | Development of closely-coupled nanostructures for advanced sensing and imaging | 5 | $48,000.00 |
| Chen, Leanne Department Chemistry |
University of Guelph | RGPIN | Developing an atomic-scale computational framework to gain insights about the electrochemical double-layer for applications to renewable energy | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Chou, Leo Department Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Inst. of (IBBME) |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | Spatial and topological control of receptor signaling using DNA nanotechnology | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Cibian, Mihaela Department Chimie, biochimie et physique |
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières | RGPIN | Smart Compounds, Systems and Research Methods in Artificial Photosynthesis | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Collins, Shawn Department Chimie |
Université de Montréal | RGPIN | Novel Catalysis for Macrocyclization Processes | 5 | $79,000.00 |
| Dawe, Louise Department Chemistry |
Wilfrid Laurier University | RGPIN | Coordination Chemistry Using Strategic Design of Ligands: Fundamental Explorations and Applications | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| De Baerdemacker, Stijn Department Chemistry |
New Brunswick | RGPIN | Strong electron correlations in quantum chemistry: new approaches from machine learning, quantum computing and time-dependent quantum control | 5 | $34,000.00 |
| Dhirani, Al-Amin Department Chemistry (St. George Campus) |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | Opto/electronic studies and applications of nano-engineered 2-dimensional materials | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Dollé, Mickael Department Chimie |
Université de Montréal | RGPIN | Sustainable aqueous Sodium-ion batteries | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Drover, Marcus Department Chemistry and Biochemistry |
University of Windsor | RGPIN | New Technologies for Sustainable Chemistry: An Organometallic Future in Clean Energy | 5 | $34,000.00 |
| Easton, E. Bradley Department Science, Faculty of |
University of Ontario Institute of Technology | RGPIN | Doped metal oxide electrocatalyst supports with enhanced conductivity | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| El-Aneed, Anas Department Pharmacy and Nutrition, College of |
University of Saskatchewan | RGPIN | New surface-modified nanoparticles as matrices to enhance mass spectrometric analysis of substance of abuse by matrix assisted laser desorption ionization | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Emslie, David Department Chemistry & Chemical Biology |
McMaster University | RGPIN | Reactive Organometallic Complexes and Ligand Design for Catalysis, Actinide Complexation, and Thin Film Deposition | 5 | $64,000.00 |
| Forgione, Pat Department Chemistry and Biochemistry |
Concordia | RGPIN | Development of Decarboxylative and Desulfinative Cross-Coupling Strategies Towards Drug-Discovery, Materials and Biomass-Derived Platform Chemicals | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Fryzuk, Michael Department Chemistry |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Discovery of New Catalysts for Functionalization of Molecular Nitrogen | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Gates, Byron Department Chemistry |
Simon Fraser University | RGPIN | Tuning the Surface Chemistry of Structured Materials for Enhanced Performance | 5 | $48,000.00 |
| Gates, Derek Department Chemistry |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Synthetic Phosphorus Chemistry: The Systematic Development of Phosphorus-Containing Molecules and Polymers | 5 | $79,000.00 |
| Gauthier, Mario Department Chemistry |
University of Waterloo | RGPIN | Synthesis and characterization of arborescent (dendrigraft) polymers | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Geyer, Clarence Department Pathology and Lab Medicine |
University of Saskatchewan | RGPIN | Design of synthetic recombinant antibody devices for applications in molecular targeted imaging | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Gibbs, Julianne Department Chemistry |
University of Alberta | RGPIN | DNA Amplification Beyond Biology: Achieving Self-Replication in Nano-Assemblies and Prebiotic Model Systems | 5 | $48,000.00 |
| Giorgi, Javier Department Chemistry |
University of Ottawa | RGPIN | Sulfide catalysts for biomass valorization and environmental remediation: Interactions of complex organic molecules on well-defined sulfide surfaces | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Greener, Jesse Department Chimie |
Université Laval | RGPIN | Bacterial biofilms as sustainable catalytic materials studied in customized microfluidic bioanalytical flow-cells | 5 | $79,000.00 |
| Grosvenor, Andrew Department Chemistry |
University of Saskatchewan | RGPIN | The development of solid-state materials for the sequestration of nuclear waste | 5 | $48,000.00 |
| Gsponer, Joerg Department Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Designing interactions mediated by disordered protein regions | 5 | $48,000.00 |
| Guindon, Yvan Department Chimie |
Université de Montréal | RGPIN | Reaction Mechanisms and Methodology for the Design and Synthesis of Bioactive Agents. | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Hanna, Gabriel Department Chemistry |
University of Alberta | RGPIN | Mixed Quantum-Classical Dynamics of Quantum Energy Transfer Processes | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Hayes, Patrick Department Chimie |
Université de Montréal | RGPIN | Atmospheric measurements and modeling studies to improve understanding of organic and mineral dust aerosols in northern Canada | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Hayes, Paul Department Chemistry and Biochemistry |
University of Lethbridge | RGPIN | Developing New Reactions and Catalysis via Designer Ligands for Organometallic Chemistry | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Heidar Zadeh, Farnaz Department Chemistry |
Queen's University | RGPIN | Theoretical Chemical Design with Machine Learning: Model Development and Applications | 5 | $34,000.00 |
| Hitchcock, Adam Department Chemistry & Chemical Biology |
McMaster University | RGPIN | Advancing Soft X-ray Spectromicroscopy | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Hore, Dennis Department Chemistry |
University of Victoria | RGPIN | Nonlinear Vibrational Probes of Structure at Charged Polymer-Aqueous Interfaces | 5 | $79,000.00 |
| Howe, Graeme Department Chemistry |
Queen's University | RGPIN | Tracing enzyme mechanisms across evolution to elucidate the origins of enzymatic catalysis | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Huan, Tao Department Chemistry |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Development of analytical and bioinformatic tools for mass spectrometry-based untargeted metabolomics | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Jakeman, David Department Pharmacy, College of |
Dalhousie | RGPIN | Carbohydrates, enzymes and natural products | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Jobst, Karl Department Chemistry |
Memorial University of Newfoundland | RGPIN | Sequencing the exposome: developing an integrated approach using nontargeted mass spectrometry and computational chemistry | 5 | $41,000.00 |
| Jockusch, Rebecca Department Chemistry (St. George Campus) |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | Enabling Technologies to Characterize Biomolecules and Fluorophores in Controlled Micro-environments using Mass Spectrometry | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Kerman, Kagan Department Physical & Environmental Sciences (Scarborough) |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | Bioelectrochemistry at nanocomposite-modified interfaces and surfaces | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Kinrade, Stephen Department Chemistry |
Lakehead University | RGPIN | Aqueous chemistry and biochemistry of silicon | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Kleinke, Holger Department Chemistry |
University of Waterloo | RGPIN | Solid State Chemistry: from Thermoelectric to Nonlinear Optical Materials | 5 | $64,000.00 |
| Kluger, Ronald Department Chemistry (St. George Campus) |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | Bioorganic Reactivity: Patterns, Principles and Applications | 5 | $48,000.00 |
| Krems, Roman Department Chemistry |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | A hybrid approach to quantum dynamics based on the integration of quantum calculations and machine learning | 5 | $64,000.00 |
| Krol, Edward Department Pharmacy and Nutrition, College of |
University of Saskatchewan | RGPIN | Toxicity and biological activity of natural products | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Lagugné-Labarthet, François Department Chemistry |
The University of Western Ontario | RGPIN | Plasmonic metamaterials: enabling new routes for localized surface chemistry. | 5 | $64,000.00 |
| Lautens, Mark Department Chemistry (St. George Campus) |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | Improving Efficiency in Organic Synthesis via Metal and Multimetal Catalysis | 5 | $121,000.00 |
| Li, Chao-Jun Department Chemistry |
McGill University | RGPIN | Exploration of New Reactivities for Sustainable Chemical Syntheses | 5 | $79,000.00 |
| Li, Hongbin Department Chemistry |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Protein Mechanics and Engineering at the Single Molecule Level | 5 | $79,000.00 |
| Li, Yingfu Department Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences |
McMaster University | RGPIN | Expanding biosensing systems through synthetic functional deoxyribonucleic acids | 5 | $105,000.00 |
| Liu, Juewen Department Chemistry |
University of Waterloo | RGPIN | Competing ligand assisted aptamers and DNAzymes for nanomaterials | 5 | $64,000.00 |
| Liu, Lijia Department Chemistry |
The University of Western Ontario | RGPIN | Characterization of Light-Emitting Inorganic Nanomaterials using Synchrotron Radiation Spectroscopy | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Luedtke, Nathan Department Chemistry |
McGill University | RGPIN | Chemical Methods for Illuminating Cellular DNA | 5 | $79,000.00 |
| Ma, Dongling Department Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, Centre |
Institut national de la recherche scientifique | RGPIN | Advanced functional nanomaterials for photocatalysis | 5 | $79,000.00 |
| Maly, Kenneth Department Chemistry |
Wilfrid Laurier University | RGPIN | Synthesis and Self-Assembly of New Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Mansy, Sheref Department Chemistry |
University of Alberta | RGPIN | Cell-free synthesis of iron-sulfur clusters for artificial cells | 5 | $94,000.00 |
| Manzhos, Sergei Department Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, Centre |
Institut national de la recherche scientifique | RGPIN | COMPUTATIONAL MODELING AND DESIGN OF MATERIALS FOR ENERGY CONVERSION AND STORAGE & NEXT GENERATION METHODS | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Martic, Sanela Department Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Program |
Trent University | RGPIN | Exploring the solution and surface chemistry of peptides and proteins | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Masuda, Jason Department Chemistry |
Saint Mary's | RGPIN | Stabilization of Unique Chemical Bonding Environments and Exploration of Small Molecule Reactivity | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Mauzeroll, Janine Department Chemistry |
McGill University | RGPIN | Investigating Electrochemistry in Confined Volumes | 5 | $64,000.00 |
| Menard, Frederic Department Okanagan |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Design of molecular tools to study protein dynamics in living cells | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Momose, Takamasa Department Chemistry |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Spectroscopy and dynamics of cold and ultracold molecules | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Narain, Ravin Department Chemical and Materials Engineering |
University of Alberta | RGPIN | Molecular Engineering of Polymers and Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Nazar, Linda Department Chemistry |
University of Waterloo | RGPIN | Solid State Electrochemical Energy Storage Materials | 5 | $105,000.00 |
| Newman, Stephen Department Chemistry |
University of Ottawa | RGPIN | Catalytic activation of oxygen-containing functional groups | 5 | $48,000.00 |
| O'Flaherty, Derek Department Chemistry |
University of Guelph | RGPIN | Development of functional and responsive nucleic acid systems for applications in biotechnology | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Pai, Emil Department Biochemistry (St. George Campus) |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | Time-resolved crystallography of enzyme-catalyzed reactions | 5 | $48,000.00 |
| Paquin, Jean-François Department Chimie |
Université Laval | RGPIN | Organofluorine Chemistry: From New Synthetic Methods to New Reactivity | 5 | $94,000.00 |
| Pellerin, Christian Department Chimie |
Université de Montréal | RGPIN | Finding Order in Chaos: Vibrational Spectroscopy Study of Oriented Soft Materials | 5 | $48,000.00 |
| Perrin, David Department Chemistry |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | New Molecules, Methods, and Platforms at the Interface of Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology | 5 | $94,000.00 |
| Plettner, Erika Department Chemistry |
Simon Fraser University | RGPIN | Structure-Function of Insect Odorant-Binding Proteins and a Bacterial Cytochrome P450: Discovery of Mechanisms and Applications | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Preuss, Kathryn Department Chemistry |
University of Guelph | RGPIN | Molecule-based Materials with Technologically Relevant Properties | 5 | $64,000.00 |
| Radovanovic, Pavle Department Chemistry |
University of Waterloo | RGPIN | Functional Property Correlations in Reduced Dimensions | 5 | $79,000.00 |
| Rawson, Jeremy Department Chemistry and Biochemistry |
University of Windsor | RGPIN | Magnetic, electronic and optical properties of multifunctional main group radicals | 5 | $64,000.00 |
| Saidaminov, Makhsud Department Chemistry |
University of Victoria | RGPIN | Novel organic-inorganic perovskites for durable solar cells, sensitive X-ray sensors, and color e-ink displays | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Sammis, Glenn Department Chemistry |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | New Radical and Fluorination Methods for the Syntheses of Pharmaceuticals | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Saravanamuttu, Kalaichelvi Department Chemistry & Chemical Biology |
McMaster University | RGPIN | Photochemically-driven stimuli-responsive systems: from materials that compute with light to bio-inspired waveguide lattices | 5 | $48,000.00 |
| Schuurman, Michael Department Chemistry |
University of Ottawa | RGPIN | Computational Ultrafast X-ray Science | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Schwan, Adrian Department Chemistry |
University of Guelph | RGPIN | Explorations in Organosulfur Chemistry | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Sciaini, Germán Department Chemistry |
University of Waterloo | RGPIN | The Ultrafast electron Imaging Lab of Waterloo | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Scott, Robert Department Chemistry |
University of Saskatchewan | RGPIN | Design and in situ Characterization of High-Surface Area Metallic and Bimetallic Nanoscale Catalysts | 5 | $48,000.00 |
| Serpe, Michael Department Chemistry |
University of Alberta | RGPIN | Chemically Diverse Stimuli-Responsive Polymers for Myriad Applications | 5 | $79,000.00 |
| Shankar, Karthik Department Electrical and Computer Engineering |
University of Alberta | RGPIN | Exploiting Plasmonic and Plexcitonic Nanomaterials in Industrial Catalysis | 5 | $48,000.00 |
| She, Zhe Department Chemistry |
Queen's University | RGPIN | Probing molecular interactions on soft surfaces by scanning probe microscopy | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Siu, K.W. Michael Department Chemistry and Biochemistry |
University of Windsor | RGPIN | Analytical Chemistry of Proteins and Peptides | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Skene, William Department Chimie |
Université de Montréal | RGPIN | Reversible covalent chemistry for property modification of conjugated materials | 5 | $64,000.00 |
| Smith, Jeffrey Department Chemistry |
Carleton University | RGPIN | Novel methods and applications in quantitative mass spectrometry-based biomolecule analysis | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Snieckus, Victor Department Chemistry |
Queen's University | RGPIN | Strategies and Methods for the Synthesis of Aromatic Molecules | 5 | $64,000.00 |
| Song, Yang Department Chemistry |
The University of Western Ontario | RGPIN | Enabling and advancing novel functional materials under extreme conditions for energy applications | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Staroverov, Viktor Department Chemistry |
The University of Western Ontario | RGPIN | Development and Application of Nonempirical Density-Functional Methods | 5 | $64,000.00 |
| Stephan, Douglas Department Chemistry (St. George Campus) |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | FLPs and Main Group Catalysis | 5 | $105,000.00 |
| Stillman, Martin Department Chemistry |
The University of Western Ontario | RGPIN | Bioinorganic chemistry of metalloproteins and tetrapyrroles | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Svishchev, Igor Department Chemistry |
Trent University | RGPIN | Physics, Chemistry and Technology of Supercritical Water | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Tam, William Department Chemistry |
University of Guelph | RGPIN | Acid- and Metal-Catalyzed Organic Reactions | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Tieleman, Peter Department Biological Sciences |
University of Calgary | RGPIN | Computer simulations of lipids | 5 | $105,000.00 |
| Tsantrizos, Youla Department Chemistry |
McGill University | RGPIN | Engineering Phosphorus-Containing Molecules as Leads for Medicinal Chemistry and as Tools for Asymmetric Synthesis | 5 | $64,000.00 |
| Urquhart, Stephen Department Chemistry |
University of Saskatchewan | RGPIN | Spectroscopy and Spectro-ptychography of Ordered and Disordered Materials | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Vallée-Bélisle, Alexis Department Chimie |
Université de Montréal | RGPIN | Programmable DNA-based switches and nanomachines for sensing and drug delivery applications | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| VandenBoer, Trevor Department Chemistry |
York University | RGPIN | Formation and exchange of nitrous acid at atmospheric interfaces: Understanding a critical reactive air quality intermediate | 5 | $29,000.00 |
| Vederas, John Department Chemistry |
University of Alberta | RGPIN | Mechanisms of Polyketide, Amino Acid and Polypeptide Biosynthesis | 5 | $105,000.00 |
| Veinot, Jonathan Department Chemistry |
University of Alberta | RGPIN | Group 14 nanomaterials in all dimensions: Synthesis, Fundamental Understanding and Practical Application. | 5 | $64,000.00 |
| Vocadlo, David Department Chemistry |
Simon Fraser University | RGPIN | Chemical tools for studying carbohydrates and carbohydrate processing enzymes | 5 | $105,000.00 |
| Vukotic, Vedran Department Chemistry and Biochemistry |
University of Windsor | RGPIN | Metal-organic Frameworks as Controlled Release Materials | 5 | $34,000.00 |
| Wania, Frank Department Physical & Environmental Sciences (Scarborough) |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | A chemical thermodynamics-based approach to quantifying contaminant exposure | 5 | $79,000.00 |
| Warren, Jeffrey Department Chemistry |
Simon Fraser University | RGPIN | Moving electrons in electrocatalysts and through metalloproteins | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Wong, Jenny Department Chemistry & Biochemistry |
Mount Allison University | RGPIN | Sources and Impacts of Water-Soluble Iron in Atmospheric Aerosol | 5 | $24,000.00 |
| Wuest, James Department Chimie |
Université de Montréal | RGPIN | Controlling Molecular Organization in Materials | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Yan, Hongbin Department Chemistry |
Brock University | RGPIN | Chemical modification, structural and functional study of nucleic acids | 5 | $48,000.00 |
| Zamble, Deborah Department Chemistry (St. George Campus) |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | Mechanisms of Nickel-Responsive Proteins | 5 | $64,000.00 |