Faculty of Medicine researchers Leonard Foster and Natalie Strynadka are among fifteen UBC researchers who received a combined $3.9 million in funding for their research projects this week from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund.
Dr. Leonard Foster, Interim Head and Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, received $500,000 for his research project, Breeding for Disease Resistance in Honey Bees.
Dr. Natalie Strynadka, Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, received $770,000 for her research project, Antibacterial Discovery on the Bacterial Membrane Facilitated by in vitro and in situ Cryo Electron Microscopy Methods.
The John R. Evans Leaders Fund helps universities attract and retain researchers by providing funding for tools and laboratory equipment, infrastructure and operating costs.
UBC projects that received funding:
Tool for Multimodal Measurements of Quantum Materials: Scanning Probe Microscopy and Angle Resolved Photoemission, $800,000
Sarah Burke, Faculty of Science, Quantum Matter Institute
High Performance Additive Manufacturing, $171,605
Steven Cockcroft, Faculty of Applied Science, Materials Engineering
Exercise and Depression: Moving from Efficacy to Effectiveness, $63,381
Guy Faulkner, Faculty of Education, School of Kinesiology
Building Infrastructure for Spatial Archaeometry and Visualization, $74,161
Kevin Fisher, Faculty of Arts, Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies
Methane Biogeochemistry Facility, $231,600
Edward Hornibrook, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, UBCO
Tools for Surface Analysis and Characterization, $135,000
Zachary Hudson, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry
Laboratory Infrastructure: The Depression and Stress Lab, $124,637
Joelle LeMoult, Faculty of Arts, Department of Psychology
Release Behavior of Metallic and Non-metallic Elements from Rock Piles, $125,000
Wenying Liu, Faculty of Applied Science, Materials Engineering
NSERC/Egg Farmers of Canada Industrial Research Chair in Sustainability, $125,000
Nathaniel Pelletier, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, UBCO
Atomic Layer Deposition Facility for Energy Materials and Devices, $125,000
Jian Liu, Faculty of Applied Science, UBCO
The Centre for Obesity and Well-being Research Excellence (The CORE), $123,567
Lesley Lutes, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, UBCO
A Flexible and Scalable Platform for Actionable Genomics, $400,771
Corey Nislow, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Laboratory for Experimental X-ray Imaging (LEXI), $136,352
Jesse Tanguay, Faculty of Applied Science, UBCO