John R. Evans Leaders Fund recipients (clockwise): Dr. Alexis Black, Dr. Ryan Flannigan, Dr. Kathryn Isaac, Dr. Raymond Ng, Dr. Ramon Klein Geltink, and Dr. Seth Parker
Five researchers from the faculty of medicine have been awarded funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF).
They are among a number of UBC researchers who collectively received more than $2 million in funding for 16 projects.
The JELF awards were announced by Parliamentary Secretary Andy Filmore on behalf of the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, as part of a larger announcement of close to $45 million to support 150 research infrastructure projects at 43 institutions across the country. This funding ensure researchers have the labs and equipment they need to carry out world-class research and technology development.
Faculty of medicine recipients and their projects:
- Alexis Black, School of Audiology & Speech Sciences
Language and Development Lab - Ryan Flannigan, department of urologic sciences
Infrastructure to Establish a Combined Regenerative and Precision Medicine Reproductive Research Program - Kathryn Isaac, department of surgery, and Raymond Ng, Centre for Heart Lung Innovation
Development of Natural Language Processing & Machine Leaning to accelerate breast cancer outcomes research - Ramon Klein Geltink, department of pathology and laboratory medicine
Metabolic monitoring of immune cell function - Seth Parker, department of biochemistry and molecular biology
Functional metabolism and transport using mass spectrometry (MeTSpec)