Past Seed Funding and Interdisciplinary Research Funding Program Winners

1. John Honek (Chem) and Ken Stark (Kin), “Hydrophobic Engineering of Nanodimensional Protein Capsules for Therapeutics” for $99,031
2. Karim Karim (ECE) with Peter Levine (ECE) and Robin Duncan (Kin), “An Innovative New Micro-CT System For Cardiovascular Imaging Research” for $100,000
3. Germán Sciaini (Chem) and Michaela Devries-Aboud (Kin), “Mapping Lipid and Mitochondria Depots in Fully Hydrated Tissue with Nanometer Resolution” for $50,000
4. Luis Ricardez Sandoval (ChE) and Ricardo Fukasawa (Appl Math), “A Novel Theoretical Framework for the Prediction of Non-equilibrium Systems: a combinatorial approach” for $50,000

1. Hamed Majedi (ECE) with Bo Cui (ECE) and Klaus Boller (MESA⁺): “On-Chip Platform for Tunable Nonlinear Optics and Reconfigurable Quantum Photonics”
2. Anna Klinkova  (Chem) and Jeff Wood (MESA⁺): “Integrated Solution to Ammonia and Carbon Dioxide Recycling to Fertilizers and Fuels”
3. Kevin Musselman (MME) and Gertjan Koster (MESA⁺): “Laser-Synthesized 2D Nanosheets for Epitaxial Growth of Functional Oxides on any Substrate”

Full details can be found here.

1. Zhongwei Chen (ChE): “Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Electricity and Transportation Sectors by Smart Electrochemical Energy Materials and Systems” for $150,000
2. Anna Klinkova (Chem) with Goretty Dias (SEED): “Overcoming the Inertia of Petroculture by Transforming the Biomass Conversion Technology” for $25,000
3. Ting Tsui (ChE) with Yuning Li (ChE) and Steven Young (SEED): “Developing a Multibillion Dollar Solar Panel Recycling Industry in Canada” for $50,000.

Full details can be found here.

1. Pu Chen (ChE) and Yimei Jia (NRC) with Marianna Kulka (NRC) for $30,000 cash (WIN) and $78,500 in-kind (NRC) for the project, "Theranostic Nanomedicine: Dendrite Cell Leveraged Nanotechnology for Immunosensing and in-situ Immune Modulation"
2. Emmanuel Ho (Pharmacy) and Nikola Pekas (NRC) for $30,000 cash (WIN) and $50,000 in-kind (NRC) for the project, "Rapid and Portable Multiplex Device for the Diagnosis of Flu-like Symptoms Caused by SARS-CoV-2, Human Rhinovirus and Influenza Virus"
3. Juewen Liu (Chemistry) and Marianna Kulka (NRC) for $47,225 cash (WIN) and $55,000 in-kind (NRC) for the project, "Magnetic Nanoparticle Coupled Aptamers for Biosensing and Enrichment of Exosomes"
4. Kevin Musselman (MME) with Eihab Abdel-Rahman (SDE) and Mustafa Yavuz (MME), and Kenneth Bosnick (NRC) for $50,000 cash (WIN) and $37,000 in-kind (NRC) for the project, "Nano-cantilever biogenic-amine sensors for food safety and waste"
5. Michael Pope (ChE) and Neil Graddage (NRC) for $30,000 cash (WIN) and $50,000 in-kind (NRC) for the project, "Printed 2D Nanomaterials for Flexible, Near-Infrared Sensors"
6. German Sciaini (Chemistry) and Mark Salamons (NRC) with Michael Fleischauer (NRC) for $30,000 in cash (WIN) and $50,125 in-kind (NRC) for the project, "Development and implementation of cathodoluminescence system for the characterization of light emitting nanomaterials and nanostructures with atomic spatial resolution"
7. Shirley Tang (Chemistry) and Abebaw Jemere (NRC) for $30,000 cash (WIN) and $43,324 in-kind (NRC) for the project, "Towards multiplexed point-of-care testing of disease biomarkers using molecularly imprinted polymer-based nanosensors"
8. Yimin Wu (MME) and Adam Bergren (NRC) for $30,000 cash (WIN) and $50,000 in-kind (NRC) for the project, "Internet of things of low power field effect transistor based sensor for CO₂ detection"
9. Boxin Zhao (ChE) with Qinqin Zhu (ChE) and Misa Hayashida (NRC) for $30,000 cash (WIN) and $50,000 in-kind (NRC) for the project, "3D imaging & machine learning for nanoplastic identification and classification"

The NRC announcement of the program can be found on these links:

Enlgish: https://nrc.canada.ca/en/research-development/research-collaboration/programs/nrc-waterloo-institute-nanotechnology-collaboration 

French: https://nrc.canada.ca/fr/recherche-developpement/recherche-collaboration/programmes/collaboration-entre-cnrc-linstitut-nanotechnologie-waterloo 

See full details here.