$1.25 million for McGill research from the New Frontiers in Research Fund
Federal fund will support transformative high risk, high reward research across engineering, science, and medicine at McGill.
Five McGill research teams are recipients of $1.25 million in total funding from the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF), part of a nearly $23‑million federal investment announced today supporting 92 research projects across Canada.
The NFRF funds interdisciplinary, high-risk, high-reward, transformative research led by Canadian researchers working with Canadian and international partners. The program is administered by the Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat, which is housed within the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), on behalf of Canada’s three federal research funding agencies: SSHRC, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC).
McGill recipients:
Improved Peripheral Nerve Regeneration with Bioresorbable Wireless Electrical Stimulator
Sharmistha Bhadra, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Principal Investigator)
Ji Zhang, Professor, Faculty of Dental and Oral Health (co-Principal Investigator)
Total: $250,000
Wired for repair: building synthetic axons to unlock myelin regeneration
Marta Cerruti, Professor, Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, Co-director of the McGill Institute for Advanced Materials (Principal Investigator)
Timothy Kennedy, Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery (co-Principal Investigator)
Thomas Szkopek, Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (Collaborator)
Total: $250,000
A novel approach for safe and efficient pesticide application for pathogen control in crop plants
Subhasis Ghoshal, Professor, Civil Engineering, Director of the Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design (Principal Investigator)
Martin Filion, Associate Professor, Department of Plant Science (co-Principal Investigator)
Carolyn Baglole, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine (co-Applicant)
Aurélie Harou, Associate Professor, Department of Natural Resource Sciences (Collaborator)
Codruta Ignea, Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering (Collaborator)
Total: $250,000
From elite labs to every desk: democratizing lab-on-a-chip through knowledge dissemination and community building
David Juncker, Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering (Principal Investigator)
Ma'n Zawati, Associate Professor, Department of Human Genetics (co-Applicant)
Total: $250,000
A Circular Energy System Based on the Combustion of Metals through their Recycling using Carbenes
Marc-André Légaré, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry (Principal Investigator)
Janine Mauzeroll, Professor, Department of Chemistry (co-Principal Investigator)
Jeffrey Bergthorson, William Dawson Scholar and Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering (co-Applicant)
Total: $250,000