IBME / en 12 łÔąĎ±¬ÁĎ researchers recognized with Connaught Innovation Awards /celebrates/12-u-t-researchers-recognized-connaught-innovation-awards <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">12 łÔąĎ±¬ÁĎ researchers recognized with Connaught Innovation Awards</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2023-06-01T14:09:19-04:00" title="Thursday, June 1, 2023 - 14:09" class="datetime">Thu, 06/01/2023 - 14:09</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/mississauga" hreflang="en">Mississauga</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/connaught-innovation-award" hreflang="en">Connaught Innovation Award</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-chemical-physical-sciences" hreflang="en">Department of Chemical &amp; Physical Sciences</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-chemistry" hreflang="en">Department of Chemistry</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-electrical-computer-engineering" hreflang="en">Department of Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-materials-science-engineering" hreflang="en">Department of Materials Science &amp; Engineering</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-molecular-genetics" hreflang="en">Department of Molecular Genetics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-applied-science-engineering" hreflang="en">Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/ibme" hreflang="en">IBME</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/temerty-faculty-medicine" hreflang="en">Temerty Faculty of Medicine</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/university-toronto-mississauga" hreflang="en">University of Toronto Mississauga</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p class="MsoNoSpacing">Twelve researchers at the University of Toronto are receiving Connaught Innovation Awards to help accelerate the development and commercialization of promising technologies with strong socio-economic potential that will have a positive impact on society.</p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing">“The University of Toronto congratulates this year’s recipients, whose work is addressing some of society’s most important challenges,” said <b>Leah Cowen</b>, łÔąĎ±¬ÁĎ’s vice-president, research and innovation, and strategic initiatives. “From energy-saving windows to the use of plant hormones as appetite suppressants or the development of therapeutic targets that hold promise for a broad range of neurodegenerative diseases, these researchers’ inventions have the potential to make life-changing impacts here in Canada and around the world.”</p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing">This year's recipients are:</p> <ul> <li class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://bme.utoronto.ca/faculty-research/core-faculty/julie-audet/"><strong>Julie Audet</strong>, Institute of&nbsp;Biomedical Engineering</a>: &nbsp;A tool to optimize complex formulations based on evolutionary computation accelerated by artificial neural networks</li> <li class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://physiology.utoronto.ca/faculty/denise-belsham"><strong>Denise Belsham</strong>, department of physiology</a>: The use of a plant hormone CX as an appetite suppressant</li> <li class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://moleculargenetics.utoronto.ca/faculty/alan-cochrane"><strong>Alan Cochrane</strong>, department of molecular genetics</a>: Development of broad-spectrum, host-directed antivirals</li> <li class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://golovin.mie.utoronto.ca/"><strong>Kevin Golovin</strong>, department of mechanical and industrial engineering</a>: Reducing microplastic fibre pollution using low friction polymer brush as textile coatings</li> <li class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~gulak/home.php"><strong>Glenn Gulak</strong>, department of electrical and computer engineering</a>: A hardware accelerator for fully homomorphic encryption-based machine learning applications</li> <li class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/cps/people/patrick-gunning"><strong>Patrick Gunning</strong>, department of chemical and physical sciences</a>, University of Toronto Mississauga: Development of an artificial intelligence-driven platform to explore the undruggable genome</li> <li class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://mse.utoronto.ca/faculty-staff/professors/hatton/"><strong>Benjamin Hatton</strong>, department of materials science and engineering</a>: Smart building facades for scalable operational energy management</li> <li class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://www.chemistry.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/ronald-kluger"><strong>Ronald Kluger</strong>, department of chemistry</a>: Production and evaluation of hemoglobin-bis-tetramers for oxygen transport to increase supply of lungs for transplant by enhancing ex vivo perfusion of donor lungs</li> <li class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://www.chemistry.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/eugenia-kumacheva"><strong>Eugenia Kumacheva</strong>, department of chemistry</a>: A platform for safety evaluation of chemical agents</li> <li class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://lmp.utoronto.ca/faculty/janice-robertson"><strong>Janice Robertson</strong>, department of laboratory medicine and pathobiology</a>: Targeting TDP-43 aggregation as therapeutics for TDP-43 proteinopathies</li> <li class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://news.engineering.utoronto.ca/non-invasive-approach-for-electrical-nerve-stimulation-among-five-projects-supported-by-2023-connaught-innovation-awards/"><strong>Paul Yoo</strong>, Institute of Biomedical Engineering</a>: Novel electrodes for non-invasive electrical nerve stimulation</li> <li class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://mse.utoronto.ca/faculty-staff/professors/zou-yu/"><strong>Yu Zou</strong>, department of materials science and engineering</a>: Autonomous additive manufacturing system&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p class="MsoNoSpacing">The Connaught Innovation Award, which provides one-time seed funding to support the development and commercialization of the researchers’ innovative technologies, is backed by <a href="https://connaught.research.utoronto.ca/">the Connaught Fund</a> – the <a href="https://connaught.research.utoronto.ca/opportunities">largest internal university research funding program in Canada</a>. Established 50 years ago through the sale of Connaught Medical Research Laboratories, which is known for the discovery and production of insulin, the fund supports łÔąĎ±¬ÁĎ scholars through programs such as&nbsp;the <a href="https://research.utoronto.ca/funding-opportunities/db/connaught-new-researcher-award">Connaught New Researcher Award</a>, the <a href="https://research.utoronto.ca/funding-opportunities/community-partnership-research-program-0">Connaught Community Partnership Research Program</a>,&nbsp;the <a href="https://brn.utoronto.ca/opportunity/connaught-challenge/">Connaught Major Research Challenge for Black Researchers</a><b>,</b>&nbsp;<a href="https://research.utoronto.ca/funding-opportunities/db/mclean-award">the McLean Award</a>&nbsp;and international doctoral scholarships.</p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing">&nbsp;</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Thu, 01 Jun 2023 18:09:19 +0000 lanthierj 301839 at Connaught New Researcher Awards recognize 53 faculty members across University of Toronto /celebrates/connaught-new-researcher-awards-recognize-53-faculty-members-across-university-toronto <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Connaught New Researcher Awards recognize 53 faculty members across University of Toronto</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-08-27T10:53:15-04:00" title="Friday, August 27, 2021 - 10:53" class="datetime">Fri, 08/27/2021 - 10:53</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/mississauga" hreflang="en">Mississauga</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/scarborough" hreflang="en">Scarborough</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/connaught-new-researcher-awards" hreflang="en">Connaught New Researcher Awards</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/factor-inwentash-faculty-social-work" hreflang="en">Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-applied-science-engineering" hreflang="en">Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-music" hreflang="en">Faculty of Music</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/ibme" hreflang="en">IBME</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/oise" hreflang="en">OISE</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/rotman-school-management" hreflang="en">Rotman School of Management</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/temerty-faculty-medicine" hreflang="en">Temerty Faculty of Medicine</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/u-t-mississauga" hreflang="en">łÔąĎ±¬ÁĎ Mississauga</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/u-t-scarborough" hreflang="en">łÔąĎ±¬ÁĎ Scarborough</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The University of Toronto has recognized 53 faculty members across the three campuses with the Connaught New Researcher Award.</p> <p>“I am elated to receive this award and recognition for my work,” said <strong>Kyle Ganson</strong> of the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, <a href="https://socialwork.utoronto.ca/news/33824/">who is investigating the phenomenon known as bio-hacking</a>. “My hope is that these findings will help promote the health and well-being of young people by ensuring that assessment and treatment protocols are informed and resources are allocated appropriately.”</p> <p>Designed to help winners establish a strong research program and increase their competitiveness for external funding, the award is <a href="https://connaught.research.utoronto.ca/">supported by the Connaught Fund </a>and is part of łÔąĎ±¬ÁĎ’s commitment to fostering excellence in research and innovation by supporting faculty members who are in the early stages of their academic careers.</p> <p>“These researchers are doing important and innovative work across the humanities, life sciences, physical sciences, engineering and social sciences,” said Professor&nbsp;<strong>Leah Cowen</strong>,&nbsp;łÔąĎ±¬ÁĎ’s associate vice-president, research. “<strong>Kaja Jasinska</strong>’s research will help us understand the impact of interrupted schooling on the development neural systems for reading of resettled refugee children. <strong>Kevin White</strong>’s work on decolonizing Haudenosaunee oral history will develop collaborative research methods with Six Nations of the Grand River – and <strong>Yun William Yu</strong> will develop new mathematical algorithms and computer software for analyzing genome sequences.&nbsp;</p> <p>“They – along with&nbsp;50 other faculty members across the university – will create knowledge that has&nbsp;a significant&nbsp;impact on people’s lives, thanks to the support of the Connaught Fund.”</p> <p><a href="https://csb.utoronto.ca/calarco-lab-receives-connaught-award-to-map-rna-binding-proteins-in-the-nervous-system/">Read about award-winner <strong>John Calarco</strong></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/rafael-montenegro-burke-wins-connaught-award-research-metabolomics">Read about award-winner <strong>Rafael Montenegro-Burke</strong></a></p> <p><a href="https://news.engineering.utoronto.ca/optimizing-patient-prioritization-for-admission-to-rehab-among-four-projects-powered-by-connaught-new-researcher-awards/">Read about award winners at <strong>łÔąĎ±¬ÁĎ Engineering</strong></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/connaught-new-researcher-awards-recognize-53-faculty-members-across-university-toronto">Read about award winners at the <strong>Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</strong></a></p> <p><a href="https://temertymedicine.utoronto.ca/news/rafael-montenegro-burke-one-seven-temerty-medicine-researchers-receive-connaught-awards">Read about award winners at<strong> Temerty Faculty of Medicine</strong></a></p> <p><a href="https://utsc.utoronto.ca/news-events/breaking-research/prof-looks-barriers-cannabis-legalization-jamaica-canada-help-research-award">Read about award winners at<strong> łÔąĎ±¬ÁĎ Scarborough</strong></a></p> <h3><a href="https://www.google.com/url?client=internal-element-cse&amp;cx=012460192848323152024:d_czk9jqduu&amp;q=https://connaught.research.utoronto.ca/media/914/download&amp;sa=U&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjs7sKm5vqBAxV6ElkFHULzAJIQFnoECAkQAQ&amp;usg=AOvVaw2Y3AQvTjyrOAbwboRDijE6">See the complete list of Connaught New Researchers</a></h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Fri, 27 Aug 2021 14:53:15 +0000 lanthierj 170116 at Eugenia Kumacheva awarded Guggenheim Fellowship /celebrates/eugenia-kumacheva-awarded-guggenheim-fellowship <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Eugenia Kumacheva awarded Guggenheim Fellowship</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-04-12T15:30:49-04:00" title="Monday, April 12, 2021 - 15:30" class="datetime">Mon, 04/12/2021 - 15:30</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/guggenheim-fellowship" hreflang="en">Guggenheim Fellowship</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-chemistry" hreflang="en">Department of Chemistry</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/ibme" hreflang="en">IBME</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/women-stem" hreflang="en">Women in STEM</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/Eugenia_Kumacheva-crop.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="Eugenia Kumacheva"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><a href="https://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards-funding/university-professors/">University Professor</a> <strong>Eugenia Kumacheva</strong>, a distinguished professor of chemistry in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science, has been recognized with&nbsp;a Guggenheim Fellowship from <a href="https://www.gf.org/">the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation</a>.</p> <p>Kumacheva’s &nbsp;research explores the field of “soft matter” or polymers, colloids, liquid crystals, hydrogels and living matter. She has designed and developed soft materials for use in an extraordinarily broad range of areas, including telecommunications, security, data storage, drug delivery and tissue engineering.</p> <p>A native of Ukraine, Kumacheva holds a Canada Research Chair in Advanced Polymer Materials. She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, an&nbsp;Officer of the Order of Canada and was the first Canadian winner of the L’Oreal-UNESCO Prize for Women in Science.</p> <p>Kumacheva, who is cross-appointed to the <a href="https://bme.utoronto.ca/">Institute of&nbsp;Biomedical Engineering </a>is now collaborating with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.matter.toronto.edu/basic-content-page/about-alan">Professor <strong>Alán Aspuru-Guzik</strong>,</a> a professor of chemistry and computer science, on the development of&nbsp;innovative anti-cancer therapies.</p> <p>“The Guggenheim Fellowship is a mark of recognition and one of the great career achievements for a scientist,” says Kumacheva. “It will support the collaborative research with Professor&nbsp;Alán Aspuru-Guzik, with an ambitious goal to&nbsp;accelerate anticancer drug discovery.”</p> <h3><a href="https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/four-faculty-awarded-prestigious-guggenheim-fellowships">Read the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:30:49 +0000 lanthierj 169033 at