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All Funded Projects 2023-2024

Sector Project Title Organization(s) Leader(s) Total Funding
BioCreate: Cohort 2
Health SERSBioScan: Portable Spectral Fingerprinting Solution for Micro-organisms Spectra Plasmonics Inc. Malcolm Eade, Tyler Whitney, Maarij Baig $373,142
Health Innovative In-vivo CART Approach with Spleen-Specific Nanoparticles QurCan Therapeutics Mohammad Ali Amini, John Reid $362,000
Health Improving Cell Therapy Production with Small Molecules Virica Biotech Ella Korets-Smith, JonDavid de Jong $250,000
Agriculture & Food Engineering Flavour Enhanced Yeast Strains for Brewing Escarpment Yeast Laboratories Richard Preiss $274,200
BioCreate: Cohort 3
Agriculture & Food Lowering the Costs of Recombinant Protein Production Aux Labs Ted Jin $1,300,000
Health Consolidated Ampliseq Methylation Panels (CAMP) Using mDETECT Cancer Assays for Monitoring Tumour Burden mDETECT Inc. Irsa Wiginton, Christopher Mueller $250,000
Agriculture & Food Scaling Cultivated Fat Production for Pilot Demonstration of Hybrid Alternative Meat Genuine Taste Emily Farrar, Pooya Mamaghani $303,300
Health Genomics GLUE - Building Generative AI Ontologies Scispot.io Inc Satya Singh, Guru Singh Algh $413,800
Challenge 2022 - DDC
Health Interoperable and Distributed Data Ecosystem for Climate-smart Agricultural and Food Systems (IDDEAS-CSAFS) Simon Fraser University, University of Guelph, Université Laval William Hsiao, Michelle Edwards, Claude Robert $3,265,353
Agriculture Agricultural Genomics in Action Centre: Innovation, Implementation and Impact for Climate Smart Agriculture University of Guelph, The Global Institute for Food Security, Simon Fraser University Elizabeth Shantz, Nancy Tout, Lupin Battersby $4,249,580
GENOMICS APPLICATIONS PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM (GAPP)
Bioproducts; Health EpiSign International: Health System Impact Assessment and Expanding Clinical Utilization of Epi/Genomic Testing in Rare Diseases and Beyond London Health Sciences Centre, Illumina, Inc. Bekim Sadikovic, Rishi Porecha $7,449,843
Health A Synthetic Biology Platform to Support Fungal Drug Discovery McMaster University, Kapoose Creek Wellness Gerard Wright, Eric Brown $2,220,667
Health Advancing Patient Care in Oncology: Integratin Multiscale Transcriptomics for Sarcoma Classification, and Beyond The Hospital for Sick Children, Mount Sinai Hospital Adam Shlien, Brendan Dickson $6,000,001
Health Streamlined Care for Canadians with Mismatch Repair Deficient Cancers Through Full-service Genetic and Epigenetic DNA Sequencing Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Dynacare Trevor Pugh, Hilary Racher $747,643
Total Funding for 2023-2024 $27,459,529

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