Previously completed projects
Identification of Genetic Pathways that Regulate the Survival and Development of Cancer and Cancer Stem Cells
→ Cynthia Guidos
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
January 2006 – March 2011
$18.7 million
Genome-Environment Interactions in Type I Diabetes
→ Jayne Danska
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
→ Andrew Macpherson
McMaster University, Hamilton
January 2006 – March 2011
$15.1 million
Autism Genome Project
→ Stephen Scherer
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
January 2006 – March 2011
$15.6 million
Strengthening the Role of Genomics and Global Health
→ Peter Singer, Abdallah Daar
University of Toronto
April 2006 – December 2010
$10.4 million
Quantum Dot Diagnostics: Simultaneous Genomic and Proteomic Profiling of Multiple Pathogens at Point-of-Care
→ Kevin Kain
University Health Network, Toronto
→ Michael Greenberg
Fio Corporation, Toronto
January 2006 – September 2010
$9.9 million
Automated Three-dimensional Phenotyping of Mouse Embryos
→ Mark Henkelman
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
April 2008 – September 2010
$1.4 million
The Dynactome: Mapping Spatio-Temporal Dynamic Systems in Humans
→ Anthony Pawson, Jeff Wrana
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
→ Shawn Li
University of Western Ontario, London
January 2006 – June 2010
$27.6 million
Software Tools to Simplify Gene Function Prediction
→ Gary Bader, Quaid Morris
University of Toronto
April 2008 – June 2010
$1.9 million
Environmental Barcoding through Massively Parallelized Sequencing
→ Paul Hebert
University of Guelph
April 2008 – June 2010
$1.8 million
Multiplexed MicroRNA Detection on an Electronic Chip
→ Shana Kelley, Ted Sargent
University of Toronto
April 2008 – June 2010
$0.9 million
The Contribution of Genetic Modulators of Disease Severity in Cystic Fibrosis to Other Diseases with Similarities of Clinical Phenotype
→ Peter Durie, Julian Zielenski
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
April 2006 – June 2010
$7.6 million
Technologies for Methylome Studies
→ Arturas Petronis
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto
April 2008 – March 2010
$0.8 million
Proteomic Technologies for the Study of Rare Cells
→ Daniel Figeys
University of Ottawa
April 2008 – March 2010
$1.5 million
Massively Multiparametric Flow Cytometer Analyzer
→ Scott Tanner
University of Toronto
April 2008 – March 2010
$2.8 million
Integrative Biology
→ Brenda Andrews
University of Toronto
January 2006 – December 2009
$26.8 million
International Regulome Consortium (IRC)
→ Michael Rudnicki
Ottawa Health Research Institute
January 2008 – June 2009
$23.0 million
Canadian Barcode of Life Network
→ Paul Hebert
University of Guelph
April 2005 – June 2009
$11.0 million
Mass Spectrometer-based Flow Cytometer, Methods and Applications
→ John Dick
University Health Network, Toronto
January 2005 – March 2008
$7.8 million
Protein Expression Profiling Platform for Heart Disease Biomarker Discovery
→ Peter Liu, Andrew Emili, David MacLennan
University of Toronto
April 2004 – December 2007
$6.0 million
Assessing Risk for Colorectal Tumours in Canada (ARCTIC)
→ Brent Zanke
Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto
→ Tom Hudson
McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre, Montreal
October 2004 – December 2007
$9.6 million
Segmental Duplications in Neurodevelopmental, Neurological and Behavioural Disorders
→ Stephen Scherer
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
→ Xavier Estivill
Centro de Regulació Genòmica, Barcelona
April 2004 – September 2007
$5.2 million
Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) – Phase I
→ Aled Edwards
University of Toronto
University of Oxford (UK)
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm (Sweden)
July 2003 – June 2007
$105.0 million
Genetic Determinants of Human Health and Disease
→ Katherine Siminovitch
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
January 2003 – June 2006
$11.0 million
Genomic Analysis of Soil Microorganisms
→ Turlough Finan, Brian Golding
McMaster University, Hamilton
January 2003 – March 2006
$5.9 million
Genomics of the Spruce Budworm and its Viral Pathogens
→ Arthur Retnakaran, Basil Arif
Great Lakes Forestry Centre – NRC, Sault Ste. Marie
January 2003 – March 2006
$4.6 million
Bridging the Emerging Genomics Divide
→ Peter Singer, Abdallah Daar
University of Toronto
January 2003 – March 2006
$2.8 million
Mapping and Isolation of Genes Influencing Severity of Disease in Cystic Fibrosis
→ Peter Durie, Lap-Chee Tsui
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
October 2002 – March 2006
$6.4 million
Functional Genomics of Type 1 Diabetes
→ Jayne Danska
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
January 2003 – March 2006
$8.5 million
The Stem Cell Genomics Project
→ Michael Rudnicki
Ottawa Health Research Institute
July 2002 – March 2006
$11.1 million
Proteomics and Functional Genomics – An Integrated Approach
→ Brenda Andrews, Cheryl Arrowsmith
University of Toronto
July 2002 – March 2006
$15.0 million
Functional Genomics and Proteomics of Model Organisms
→ Jack Greenblatt, Andrew Spence, Brenda Andrews
University of Toronto
October 2001 – March 2006
$26.5 million
Development and Applications of Functional Genomics Technologies
→ James Woodgett
University Health Network, Toronto
October 2002 – December 2005
$8.8 million
The Biomolecular Interaction Network Database (BIND)
→ Christopher Hogue
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
April 2002 – December 2005
$23.1 million
Genomic Resource Core Facility
→ Stephen Scherer, Lap-Chee Tsui
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
October 2001 – December 2005
$18.0 million
Proteomics Technology Core Facility (PTCF)
→ Jack Greenblatt
University of Toronto
→ Gilles Lajoie
University of Western Ontario, London
October 2001 – December 2005
$8.6 million
Genetic Determinants of Human Health and Disease – Annotation of Chromosome 7
→ Stephen Scherer
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
October 2001 – September 2005
$1.8 million
Canadian Program on Genomics and Global Health
→ Peter Singer, Abdallah Daar
University of Toronto
October 2001 – September 2005
$6.2 million
Functional Genomics and Proteomics of Model Organisms
→ Janet Rossant, Anthony Pawson
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
October 2001 – September 2005
Functional Genomics of Arabidopsis
→ John Coleman
University of Toronto
July 2002 – September 2005
$1.8 million
Fiber Optic Nucleic Acid (FONA) Biosensor-based Gene Profiling: Proof of Principle by Screening for Drug Leads for Orphan Neurodegenerative Disorders and SNP Analysis
→ Alex MacKenzie
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa
→ Paul Piunno, Ulrich Krull
University of Toronto at Mississauga
July 2002 – June 2005
$2.8 million
Viral Proteomics
→ Lori Frappier, Christian Burks
Affinium Pharmaceuticals, Toronto
July 2002 – December 2004
$6.3 million
Dollar amounts are total approved project costs as of March 31, 2012