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All Funded Projects 2022-2023

Sector Project Title Organization(s) Leader(s) Total Funding
BioCreate: Cohort 1
Bioproducts & Environment Biodegradable Plastic Production from Fermented Food Waste in Engineered Escherichia coli Genecis Bioindustries Inc. Adam Westbrook, Andrew Chiappetta $394,187
Human Health Taking EndomiR to a New Market AIMA Laboratories Lauren Foster, Jocelyn Wessels $384,900
Agriculture & Food Pilot-scale production and customer validation of animal-free collagen for functional beverages Liven Proteins Fei Luo $332,500
Agriculture & Food Development and Regulatory approval of high yielding soybean with enhanced water use efficiency by gene editing Performance Plants Inc Yafan Huang, Jiangxin Wan $467,000
Human Health Development of a cost-effective and automated genome sequencing biosensor Ecoli Sense operating as Kraken Sense Sarah Mishriki, Nisha Sarveswaran, Julia Wakulewicz $251,419
Agriculture & Food Quantitative Detection of BioTag Sets Using a Hybrid Amplification and Sequencing Approach Index Biosystems Mike Borg $360,794
Agriculture & Food The Development of Plant Growth Promoting Bacterial Inoculants for Hydroponically Grown Basil, Cucumber, Lettuce, and Kale Ceragen Danielle Rose $308,340
Bioproducts & Environment Development of a Novel Fermentation-Derived Protein Sweetener for the Food and Beverage Industry Biofect Innovations Ralph Christian Delos Santos, Louis Lo $320,000
Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops
Human Health Expanding the Bioinformatics.ca Brand Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), McGill University, Simon Fraser University Michelle Brazas, Guillaume Bourque, Lincoln Stein, William Hsiao $539,011
Challenge 2022 - Interdisciplinary Challenge Teams [ICT]
Agriculture & Food The Social Implications of Agri-Genomics: Ensuring a Just Transition to Climate-Resilient Agricultural and Food Systems in Canada University of the Fraser Valley and Trent University Evan Bowness, Lenore Newman, Stefania Pizzirani $1,051,627
Agriculture & Food Bio-inoculants for the promotion of nutrient use efficiency and crop resiliency in Canadian agriculture University of Manitoba, Queen’s University Ivan Oresnik, George diCenzo $3,614,565
Agriculture & Food Omics guided technologies for scalable production of cell-cultivated meat McMaster University, University of Toronto, University of Guelph, College La Cite Ravi Selvaganapathy, Julie Audet, Michael von Massow, Michelle Bamji-Mirza $10,105,201
Agriculture & Food Leveraging Genomics to Achieve Dairy Net Zero University of Guelph, Lactanet and University of Guelph, Universite Laval, University of Alberta Christine Baes, Filippo Miglior, Rachel Gervais, Paul Stothard $16,196,780
Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH)
Human Health Supporting Canadian Leadership in International Genomic Data Sharing Through the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), McGill University Peter Goodhand, Yann Joly $3,631,000
GENOMICS APPLICATIONS PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM (GAPP)
Agriculture & Food Biopesticide with New Modes of Action for Control of Highly Polyphagous Mite Agricultural Pests Western University, Greenlight Biosciences, Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Growers Vojislava Grbic, Ken Narva, Niki Bennett $4,109,815
Human Health Enabling personalized genomics in health with the CanPath Data Safe Haven Ontario Institute of Cancer Research, Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health (CanPath), Adela Philip Awadalla, Trevor Dummer, John McLaughlin, Anne-Renee Hartman $6,000,000
Bioproducts & Environment Developing Novel Bioleaching Process for Ni Recovery from Pyrrhotite Streams University of Toronto, Metso Outotec Krishnan Mahadevan, Waldemar Olivier $5,992,824
Human Health Improving Patient Matching to Therapy (PMATCH): streamlining clinical trial criteria to guide precision oncology University Health Network, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Canadian Clinical Trials Coordinating Centre Benjamin Haibe-Kains, Trevor Pugh, Janet Dancey $1,800,000
SSHRC - Knowledge Synthesis Grants
Addressing Racisms and Anti-Racism in Science and Teacher Education Research University of Ottawa Nicholas Ng-A-Fook $29,857
SSHRC - Societal Implications of Genomics
Human Health Personalized Genetic Drug Technologies and Medical Economies in Canada: Moral Experiment or Curative Renaissance? University Health Network Jennifer Bell $199,462
Human Health In Crypts and Cabinets: uniting ancient DNA and the history of medicine to re-examine the emergence of smallpox and the advent of vaccination McMaster University Ana Duggan $170,378
Technology Development 2022
Bioproducts & Environment Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (CBG) University of Guelph Paul Hebert $1,000,000
Bioproducts & Environment CGEn The Hospital for Sick Children, BC Cancer Research Centre, McGill University Stephen Scherer, Lisa Strug, Steven Jones, Ioannis Ragoussis $3,000,000
Total Funding for 2022-2023 $60,259,660

AcCELLerate-ON

Sector: Agriculture & Food
Creating Cultivated Pork Belly that is Structurally and Biochemically Identical to Conventional Pork Belly

Caro Meats

Alireza Shahin, John Cappuccitti

Total Funding: $200,000

Sector: Agriculture & Food
Fermentation-based production of heme as a natural flavour ingredient

Ardra Bio Inc

Pratish Gawand

Total Funding: $199,925

Sector: Agriculture & Food
Project to Scale-Up the Manufacturing of Fish Muscle Stem Cells from a 2D to 3D Culture System with Proteomic Assessment

CELL AG TECH

Valentin Fulga, Joshua Hart Pollack

Total Funding: $333,502

Sector: Agriculture & Food
Establishing the foundational tools for synthetic biology directed pork production

University of Toronto

Michael Garton

Total Funding: $200,000

All for One Health Data Ecosystem

Sector: Health
Defining a Canadian data solution that will deliver precision health for rare genetic disease

Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO)

Kym Boycott

Total Funding: $950,000

CanCOGeN Capacity Building

Sector: Health
CanCOGeN Capacity Building - PHO

Public Health Ontario

Samir Patel

Total Funding: $88,250

Sector: Health
CanCOGeN Capacity Building - Hamilton

Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program

Marek Smieja, David Bulir

Total Funding: $528,000

Sector: Health
CanCOGeN Capacity Building - Kingston

Kingston Health Sciences Centre

Prameet Sheth

Total Funding: $236,000

Sector: Health
CanCOGeN Capacity Building - UHN

Mount Sinai Hospital

Allison McGeer, Tony Mazzulli

Total Funding: $243,000

Sector: Health
CanCOGeN Capacity Building - SickKids

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)

Aaron Campigotto

Total Funding: $88,250

COVID-19 Regional Genomics Initiative (CORGI)

Sector: Health
Ontario SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern Surveillance in Wastewater Pilot Program

University of Guelph

Lawrence Goodridge, Robert Delatolla

Total Funding: $338,446

GENOMICS APPLICATIONS PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM (GAPP)

Sector: Environment & Bioproducts
Fast track diagnosis of stress, disease, phenology and growth (FastPheno)

University of Toronto, Natural Resources Canada, Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs du Québec

Ingo Ensminger, Nathalie Isabel, Julie Godbout

Total Funding: $4,744,502

Sector: Health
YCharOS – Antibody Characterization Through Open Science – From Viruses to Human Proteins

McGill University, YCharOS Inc.

Peter McPherson, Chetan Raina

Total Funding: $3,979,175

Sector: Environment & Bioproducts
Production of medium-chain length polyhydroxyalkanoate from food waste

University of Waterloo, EcoPoly Solutions

Hyung-Sool Lee, Bryon Wolff

Total Funding: $3,377,731

Sector: Health
Lowpass Genomic Instability Characterization as a Comprehensive Cancer and Germline Diagnostic Assay

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Mount Sinai Hospital

Cynthia Hawkins, Uri Tabori, Aaron Pollett, Gino Somers

Total Funding: $2,774,310

Landing Pad Investment Program (LPIP)

Sector: Agriculture & Food
Animal-free gelatin from pulse starch

Liven Proteins

Fei Luo

Total Funding: $100,000

Sector: Agriculture & Food
Probiotics for plants to increase crop yields

Ceragen

Danielle Rose

Total Funding: $100,000

Ontario Genomics initiatives

Sector: Environment & Bioproducts
Environment & Bioproducts

Ontario Genomics, University of Waterloo, University of Toronto, + More

Trevor Charles, Hyung-Sool Lee, Krishna Mahadevan, Emma Master, + More

Total Funding: $2,368,994

Total Funding for 2021-2022: $20,850,085