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sector_ico_Agrifood_trans Agrifood
Identification of the target sites of a new acaricide against the hone...

Honey bees play a key role in agriculture by pollinating crops and producing honey. However, honey bee colonies are struggling to survive the winter due to parasitic mites called V...

May 03, 2022
Data and Technology sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
Tope-seq: A high-throughput platform to discover and characterize T-ce...

By harnessing our immune system’s T-cells, immunotherapies have revolutionized how we battle cancer and treat disease. The next-generation of immunotherapies are using our im...

April 06, 2022
Data and Technology sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
A DNA-based global positioning system...

There are many factors that influence gene expression in cells, and neighboring cells impact one another. Several technologies have been piloted in the last several years to map ge...

April 06, 2022
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
Isolatrix: An Innovative Method for Single Cell Isolation Using Inkjet...

The cell is the basic unit of life and new methods for profiling the genetic characteristics of individual cells are transforming our understanding of disease. Cancer arises when...

April 06, 2022
sector_ico_Environment_trans Environment
iTrackDNA: Non-Destructive Precision Genomics for Environmental Impact...

Canada is a natural resource exporting nation that values its biodiversity, clean water and distinctive ecosystems. This vast nation is at a critical juncture with competing intere...

April 01, 2022
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
The Advancing Cardiac Care Unit-based Rapid Assessment and Treatment o...

Familial Hypercholesterolemia, or ‘FH’, is one of the most common genetic diseases, affecting 1 in 250 people. FH leads to increased cholesterol, which results in incre...

March 01, 2022
sector_ico_Environment_trans Environment
The Canadian BioGenome Project...

A genome contains the genetic blueprint of life. Each species possesses a characteristic genome, shaped by millions of years of evolution, that makes it specifically adapted to its...

January 29, 2022
sector_ico_Fisheries_trans Fisheries and Aquaculture
Complex Gill Disease Initiative (CGDI)...

Salmon production in Canada is under increasing threat from infectious and non-infectious diseases. Over the last decade, gill health and associated diseases ha...

January 12, 2022
sector_ico_Agrifood_trans Agrifood
CLEan plAnt extractioN SEquencing Diagnostics (CLEANSED) for Clean Gra...

Grapevine virus disease management has been identified by the grape grower and wine industries as a top priority for long‐term sector sustainability.  Losses of over $23 mil...

October 07, 2021
sector_ico_Environment_trans Environment
Adaptive molecular evolution in a unique British Columbia community- P...

This project used genomic approaches to understand the impacts of climate change and to help species at risk. Haida Gwaii has many unique animal and plant populations that differ f...

August 16, 2021
sector_ico_Environment_trans Environment
Microbial Envirogenomics...

Bacteria are an important source of biocatalysts for industrial processes, bioremediation agents, and bioactive compounds for pharmaceutical and other applications. This project es...

August 16, 2021
sector_ico_Agrifood_trans Agrifood
Evaluation of Genomic Testing of Dairy Heifers...

The local dairy industry provides British Columbians with fluid milk, domestic cheese, yogurt and milk products. In 2009 BC’s 545 dairy producers produced over 650 million li...

August 16, 2021
sector_ico_Agrifood_trans Agrifood
Pest Resistant Bee Selection and Breeding with Biomarkers (Apiculture ...

Honey bees contribute nearly $500M in value to fruit crops in BC through their pollination activities. For the past several years, beekeepers in BC are losing an average of one thi...

August 16, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
Integrating Quantitative Imaging Methods and Genomics Biomarkers to As...

Molecular imaging techniques provide valuable information about the presence of specific drug targets on cancer cells and are useful in cancer clinical trials and clinical practice...

August 16, 2021
sector_ico_Fisheries_trans Fisheries and Aquaculture
Inventory and Assessment of Health Risk of Microbes in BC (Phase 1)...

Over 90% of juvenile salmon migrating from freshwater into the ocean will die before returning to freshwater to spawn, and disease may be a significant factor contributing to this ...

August 16, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
Blood single-cell RNA sequencing of fibrotic interstitial lung disease...

Interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) are debilitating disorders that cause patients to slowly lose their lung function, resulting in shortness of breath, limited capacity for movement...

May 29, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
From multi-omics integration to computational modelling for high resol...

T-cells are an important cell type involved in our body’s immune responses, with roles ranging from killing cancer to eliminating infection agents such as viruses. If we can ...

May 29, 2021
sector_ico_Agrifood_trans Agrifood
Application of single-cell genomics to unravel origin and evolution of...

Stripe rust fungus, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp tritici, is one of the top five threats from disease and pests to wheat and barley production in Canada. Fungi have the pot...

May 29, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
Endo-phenotyping of Human Alveolar Macrophages from Bronchoalveolar La...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a progressive disease of the lung characterized by irreversible airflow limitation, persistent airway inflammation, and recurrent sy...

May 29, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
Single Erythrocyte HbA1c Distribution Assay...

Type 2 diabetes is a disorder of blood sugar regulation and caused by several different risk factors.  Approximately 90% of the diabetes cases in Canada are type 2. H...

May 29, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
One Health Genomics: COVID-19 Adaptation investigation in mink (and sp...

There is a critical need to monitor for the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern. The SARS-CoV-2 virus replicates with the potential for mutation within the human population...

May 29, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
Genetic determinants of COVID-19: Integration of host and viral genomi...

COVID-19 is a complex interaction between the pathogen (SARS-CoV-2), the host (human) and the environment (lifestyle and built environment). The ability to link viral and host geno...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
BC COVID Biobank...

Research using human tissue (blood, lung, heart, etc.) from patients with COVID-19 is essential for understanding the disease and finding new therapies and treatments. Numerous COV...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Forestry_trans Forestry
Generation of phenotype and genomic resources needed for drought toler...

Ponderosa pine is an important source of lumber in British Columbia and currently occupies the hottest and driest forested habitat in the province. The species’ niche is expe...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Environment_trans Environment
Developing an effective, accessible, and affordable SNP genotyping set...

Grizzly bears are an ecologically, culturally and economically valuable species for British Columbia and Canada. Owing to this importance, many populations are intensively monitore...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Fisheries_trans Fisheries and Aquaculture
Sockeye Salmon Genetic Tools to Inform Sustainable Fisheries and Rebui...

Pacific salmon play a crucial role in our culture, economy and environment. However, managing them sustainably is difficult because fisheries can catch fish from multiple locally a...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
Enabling FINDER for SARS-CoV-2...

FINDER (Facility for Infectious Disease and Epidemic Research) is a state-of-the-art Containment Level 3 (CL3) facility at UBC, used by researchers aiming to understand the biology...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
SARS–CoV–2 Study for Eased Restrictions in British Columbi...

The scale of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic required limiting individual contact through physical distancing that helped curbed transmission, but also led to significant economic disrupti...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Agrifood_trans Agrifood
Fast-Track Breeding of Powdery-Mildew Resistant Cannabis...

Following the legalization of cannabis in Canada in 2018, the industry quickly grew into a billion-dollar sector. However, decades of prohibition left cannabis behind other major c...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
COVID-19 Aerosol and Droplet Suppression Cabinets to Protect Health Ca...

When patients experience difficulty breathing independently, health care workers may intubate in order to maintain air flow. Intubating a COVID-19 patient suffering respiratory dis...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
Real-time effectiveness of COVID19 control strategies...

Estimating how well current control measures like social distancing are working is crucial to answering questions about how we should relax them: when is it safe to re-open schools...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
Development of sensitive and quantitative molecular technologies for S...

There is an urgent need to quickly and accurately identify cases of COVID-19, as this information can be used to help stop the spread of the virus, both in the community and in the...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
Structural preparedness during the COVID-19 pandemic and the provision...

It is known that the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 can be dispersed through droplets of saliva. The global COVID-19 pandemic has impacted oral and dental care since aerosol...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
Robust Man power planning models for critically ill admitted patients ...

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals were hit hard with COVID-19 patients. One limitation on patients receiving quick and effective care after admission to hospital is the n...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
Securing Reagent Supplies and Scaling COVID-19 testing in BC...

As the COVID-19 pandemic expands around the world, the BC Centre for Disease Control and other testing sites are facing two dire problems: a shortage in reagents and the personnel ...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
Filtering Facepiece Respirator Mask Sterilization Oven...

As the number of COVID-19 cases increases, the number of patients requiring aerosol generating medical procedures, including for breathing assistance, will also increase significan...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
Prognostication of ACE II Receptor (PACEiiR)...

A growing number of young and/or otherwise healthy COVID-19 patients are progressing to symptoms serious enough to require hospital admission and intubation for breathing assistanc...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
Structure-guided design of therapeutics and antibodies against COVID-1...

Finding an effective vaccine to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2 as well as a therapy to treat symptoms of the disease is of the highest priority and is being pursued globally. A numb...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
Drug repurposing for SARS-CoV-2 infection using human organoid culture...

In the search for effective drugs against SARS-CoV-2 infection, there are speed and safety advantages to repurposing existing drugs. This project was aiming to find drug candidates...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
Characterizing Antibody Response to Emerging COVID-19 Virus (CARE COVI...

To date, COVID-19 infection has been diagnosed solely through laboratory tests that detect viral RNA. These diagnostic tests reveal whether someone is currently infected but do not...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
Rapid release of an easily accessible SARS-CoV-2 genome analysis pipel...

This project will create a simple open-source software package that will help analyze viral genomic data from the COVID-19 pandemic. This tool will be created by adapting an existi...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
Learning in a Time of Crisis: Creating a Canadian COVID-19 Registry...

This project established the Canadian COVID-19 Emergency Department Rapid Response Network (CCEDRRN), a national registry of patients who present to Canadian Emergency Departments ...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Fisheries_trans Fisheries and Aquaculture
Use of digital PCR technology to measure abundance of aquatic microbes...

The BC salmon aquaculture sector contributes $1.5 billion to the provincial economy annually and provides 7,000 jobs to communities across the Lower Mainland and remote coastal are...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Fisheries_trans Fisheries and Aquaculture
Using eDNA for Pacific Salmon Stock Assessments...

Pacific salmon populations are declining due to a number of factors including climate change and pollution. Thus, it is crucial to monitor salmon populations in order to gain insig...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Fisheries_trans Fisheries and Aquaculture
Genomic tools for Kokanee salmon stock assessment and broodstock ident...

Kokanee are a landlocked version of the sockeye salmon species and live their entire lives in freshwater. They are an important food, social and ceremonial fish for First Nations a...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
Responding to Emerging Serious Pathogen Outbreaks using Next-gen Data:...

A new virus has been identified from Wuhan City in China from the Coronavirus family (2019-nCoV), which as of February 6th, 2020 is responsible for over 28,000 cases in over 25 cou...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Fisheries_trans Fisheries and Aquaculture
New tools to forecast and prevent norovirus contamination of farmed oy...

Gastroenteritis from contaminated oysters and other shellfish is a major public health issue in BC, leading to closures of shellfish harvesting areas, significant economic losses f...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
Canadian Network for Learning Healthcare Systems and Cost-Effective &#...

Cancer is a collection of related genetic diseases. These are caused by DNA mutations that change how cells grow and develop. Recent innovations allow us to sequence the complete s...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
Towards clinical implementation of pharmacogenomics to improve the tre...

One in 10 Canadians will experience major depression during their lives, and for people with major depressive disorder (MDD), finding a medication that both works and does not caus...

May 25, 2021
sector_ico_Health_trans Human Health
3D printed pancreatic tissue from genetically engineered stem cells fo...

Over 300,000 people in Canada and millions more worldwide are living with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D), a disease characterized by elevated blood sugar levels. T1D patients lack the pancr...

May 25, 2021
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