Funding decision
| Year | Province | Institution | Evaluation group | Grant holder | Program | Title | Co-applicant(s) | Department | Term | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | British Columbia | The University of British Columbia | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Rahmim, Arman | DH | Towards Physician-in-the-Loop Artificial Intelligence in Oncologic PET/CT Imaging | Alberts, Ian; Gowdy, Claire | Radiology | 5 | 100,000 | |
| 2025 | British Columbia | The University of British Columbia | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Pratap Singh, Anubhav | DH | Buccal Tablets and Nasal Sprays for non-invasive delivery of therapeutic peptides and hormones | Faculty of Land and Food Systems | 5 | 50,000 | ||
| 2025 | Ontario | Carleton University | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Willmore, William | DH | Oxygen-Dependent Structural Alterations In Extracellular Matrix Synthesized By Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts | Biochemistry | 5 | 50,000 | ||
| 2025 | Ontario | Lakehead University | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Metcalfe, Jessica | DH | Follow the Bison: Insights into Environmental and Cultural Change | Hamilton, Scott; Boyd, Matthew | Anthropology | 5 | 94,474 | |
| 2025 | Ontario | Royal Military College of Canada | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Malardier-Jugroot, Cecile | DH | Multimodal Cancer Therapy - mitigating drug resistance and side effects | Chemistry and Chemical Engineering - Royal Military College of Canada | 5 | 50,000 | ||
| 2025 | Ontario | University of Ottawa | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Seely, Andrew | DH | Redefining Health through Non-equilibrium Physics | Ramsay, Timothy | Medicine, Divisions of Thoracic Surgery and Critical Care Medicine | 3 | 73,709 | |
| 2025 | Ontario | University of Toronto | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Biddiss, Elaine | DH | Multidomain dynamic difficulty adjustment and performance assessment in serious games | Scratch, Shannon; Fehlings, Darcy | Institute of Biomedical Engineering | 5 | 100,000 | |
| 2025 | Ontario | University of Toronto | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Seto, Emily | DH | Reimagining Health App Interfaces for Inclusive and Equitable Access through Artificial Intelligence and Novel Design | Pham, Quynh; Smylie, Janet; Shahil-Feroz, Anam; Cafazzo, Joseph | Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation | 5 | 100,000 | |
| 2025 | Ontario | University of Toronto | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Lovblom, Leif Erik | DH | Deriving and evaluating realistic statistical models for real-time clinical prediction of diabetes complications | Perkins, Bruce | Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation | 5 | 75,000 | |
| 2025 | Ontario | University of Toronto | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Moore, Emily | DH | Integrating Sustainability Factors into Self-Driving Laboratory Materials Development Processes | Hsiao, Amy; Domike, Reuben | Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering | 5 | 99,150 | |
| 2025 | Quebec | Université Laval | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Turgeon, Christine | DH | Développement d’outils automatisés pour la détection précoce des troubles d’apprentissage de la lecture et du langage. | Rezgui, Jihene | École des Sciences de la Réadaptation | 5 | 75,000 | |
| 2024 | Alberta | Concordia University of Edmonton | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Churchward, Matthew | DH | Mechanisms of cell stress and damage from functional electrical stimulation | Mushahwar, Vivian | Biology and Environmental Sciences | 5 | 69,225 | |
| 2024 | British Columbia | British Columbia Institute of Technology | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Noureddin, Borna | DH | Digital innovation for social transformation: internalizing agency, health, digital literacy, values and worldviews in software design and development processes, frameworks and methodologies | Cameron, Geoffrey; Azar, Pouya | Computing Systems Technology | 5 | 75,000 | |
| 2024 | British Columbia | Simon Fraser University | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Young, Robert | DH | Selective tissue-targeting controlled release prodrug technologies | Sin, Don; Jacobson, Kevan | Chemistry | 5 | 75,000 | |
| 2024 | British Columbia | The University of British Columbia | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Velenosi, Thomas | DH | Developing tools for stable-isotope tracing lipidomics that will investigate cardiac lipid metabolism | Rodrigues, Brian | Pharmaceutical Sciences | 5 | 75,000 | |
| 2024 | British Columbia | The University of British Columbia | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | MacAulay, Calum | DH | Angular contrast multimodal optical imaging for lung cancer assessment | Myers, Renelle | Pathology and Laboratory Medicine | 5 | 100,000 | |
| 2024 | Manitoba | University of Manitoba | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Suh, Miyoung | DH | Production of functional vegetables for northern communities by harnessing smart vertical farm technology | Suh, Miyoung; Zhang, Qiang | Food and Human Nutritional Sciences | 5 | 19,500 | |
| 2024 | Ontario | Carleton University | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Hakami, Amir | DH | Development of tools for incorporation of population health and environmental justice endpoints in decarbonization policies | Civil and Environmental Engineering | 5 | 86,000 | ||
| 2024 | Ontario | University of Toronto | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | McCahan, Susan | DH | Engineering Workforce Transformation Requirements in Response to Artificial Intelligence | Mechanical & Industrial Engineering | 5 | 99,830 | ||
| 2024 | Ontario | University of Toronto | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Gabison, Sharon | DH | eTextiles and Automation Technology in Physical Therapy Practice in Critical Care: An Interdisciplinary Research Approach to Medical Device Development | Davoudpour, Maryam; Mathur, Sunita; Batt, Jane; Sadeghian, Alireza | KITE - University Health Network | 5 | 98,000 | |
| 2024 | Ontario | University of Toronto | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Anderson, Geoffrey | DH | Pioneering Mathematics to Precision Medicine: Interdisciplinary Research on the Development and Application of Tools to Support Biomedical Discovery using Biobank Data | Liu, Kuan; Haskell, Deirdre | Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, at Dalla Lana School of Public | 3 | 99,636 | |
| 2024 | Ontario | University of Waterloo | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Harris, Randy | DH | Rhetorical figures for human-like inductive biased language models | English Language and Literature | 5 | 73,820 | ||
| 2024 | Ontario | University of Waterloo | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Murphy, Paul | DH | Innovative biotechnology systems to investigate tear film/eye surface somatosensory homeostasis | Optometry and Vision Sciences | 5 | 50,000 | ||
| 2024 | Quebec | Concordia University | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Benali, Habib | DH | Cracking the tau pathology progression in the mouse brain: Computational approaches and directed anatomical brain networks modeling for neurodegenerative disease | Soucy, Jean-Paul; Brouillette, Jonathan; Girouard, Hélène | ECE | 5 | 50,000 | |
| 2024 | Quebec | Université de Montréal | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Moreno, Jhon | DH | Utilisation de la robotique sociale et de la réalité virtuelle au soutien des personnes âgées | Hôpital Notre-Dame - Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux du Centre-Sud-de-l'Ile-de-Montréal | 5 | 50,000 | ||
| 2024 | Quebec | Université de Sherbrooke | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Laurent, Benoit | DH | Boosting stem cell engraftment and differentiation with engineered biomaterials bearing cell adhesion peptides | NAWABI, Homaira; Lauzon, Marc-Antoine; Faucheux, Nathalie; Jacques, Pierre-Étienne | Biochimie et Génomique fonctionnelle | 5 | 75,000 | |
| 2023 | Alberta | University of Calgary | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Wan, Richard | DH | A mechanistic computational framework for modelling a pandemic and socio-economic response against new virus variants | Black, Kerry; Jenne, Craig; Williamson, Tyler; | Civil Engineering - University of Calgary | 5 | 100,000 | |
| 2023 | British Columbia | The University of British Columbia | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Shave, Rob | DH | The impact of social adversity on cardiovascular aging | Health and Exercise Sciences - The University of British Columbia | 5 | 50,000 | ||
| 2023 | Manitoba | University of Manitoba | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | McLachlan, Stephane | DH | “Looking outside the cup”: Community-led monitoring of hydro-related impacts on northern environments, cultural keystone indicators, and human wellbeing using both Indigenous and western science. | Bharadwaj, Lalita; Farenhorst, Annemieke; Neckoway, Ramona; Paterson, Michael; Pearson, David; Rennie, Michael; Seniuk Cicek, Jillian; Stedronsky, Katrin; | Environment and Geography - University of Manitoba | 5 | 101,100 | |
| 2023 | Ontario | Concordia University | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Xie, Wen-Fang | DH | An Autonomous Robot for Quantitative UltraSound (ARQUS) Measurements | Bentahar, Jamal; Kadem, Lyes; | Mechanical, Industrial & Aerospace Engineering - Concordia University | 5 | 96,110 | |
| 2023 | Ontario | McMaster University | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Hoare, Todd | DH | Reprogramming lung macrophages using inhalable immunomodulatory microparticles for the treatment of lung fibrosis | Bowdish, Dawn; Kolb, Martin; Wylie, Ryan; | Chemical Engineering - McMaster University | 5 | 100,000 | |
| 2023 | Ontario | University of Guelph | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Popp, Jesse | DH | Weaving Indigenous and Western Knowledge Systems for Wildlife Ecology | School of Environmental Sciences - University of Guelph | 5 | 50,000 | ||
| 2023 | Ontario | University of Toronto | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Bozec, Laurent | DH | Archival Parchments Rejuvenation: Re-engineering native collagen crosslinks for the test of time | Dempster, Laura; Gillespie, Alexandra; Gough, Kathleen; | Faculty of Dentistry - University of Toronto | 5 | 102,212 | |
| 2023 | Ontario | University of Toronto | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Drake, James | DH | Application of robotic tools and virtual fixtures for minimally invasive craniosynostosis | Podolsky, Dale; | Surgery - University of Toronto | 5 | 75,000 | |
| 2023 | Ontario | University of Waterloo | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Haji Reza, Parsin | DH | Next Generation of Surgical Microscopes for Real-time Virtual Histopathology | Fieguth, Paul; Layton, Anita; | Systems Design Engineering/Biomedical Engineering - University of Waterloo | 5 | 100,000 | |
| 2023 | Ontario | University of Windsor | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Semeniuk, Christina | DH | Co-Producing Inuit Knowledge and Scientific Understanding of Seabird-Harvester-Climate Interactions to Support Inuit Food Security | Henri, Dominique; Nguyen, Vivian; | Biological Sciences - University of Windsor | 5 | 92,800 | |
| 2023 | Ontario | Western University (The University of Western Ontario) | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Duerden, Emma | DH | Bright start, grow strong: analytic tools and resources for the study of early adversity and brain developmental trajectories | Brossard-Racine, Marie; Chakravarty, Mallar; Gallagher, Anne; Lippe, Sarah; Mantler, Tara; McKenzie, Charles; Montreuil, Tina; Mottola, Michelle; Wintermark, Pia; | Education - Western University (The University of Western Ontario) | 5 | 150,911 | |
| 2023 | Ontario | Western University (The University of Western Ontario) | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Holdsworth, David | DH | Development of low-cost digital radiography systems for low-resource settings | Cunningham, Ian; Paul, Narinder; | Surgery - Western University (The University of Western Ontario) | 5 | 99,842 | |
| 2023 | Quebec | Concordia University | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Vuckovic, Dajana | DH | Design and validation of blood sampling microdevices for oxylipins and hormone peptides | Bergdahl, Andreas; Daskalopoulou, Styliani Stella; | Chemistry and Biochemistry - Concordia University | 5 | 100,000 | |
| 2023 | Quebec | École de technologie supérieure | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Laporte, Catherine | DH | Ultrasound-based longitudinal analysis of the articulatory kinematics of the tongue in second language learning | Cardoso, Walcir; Ménard, Lucie; | Electrical engineering - École de technologie supérieure | 5 | 95,010 | |
| 2023 | Quebec | École Polytechnique de Montréal | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Jalbert, Jonathan | DH | Improving allocation and supporting clinical decision-making for deceased donor kidney offers | Cardinal, Heloise; | Département de mathématiques et génie industriel - École Polytechnique de Montréal | 5 | 75,000 | |
| 2023 | Saskatchewan | University of Regina | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Ng, Kelvin Tsun Wai | DH | Machine learning approach for sustainable clothing and textile waste management: Evidence-based policy and circular economy framework in the fashion industry | Kozlowski, Anika; McQueen, Rachel; Weber, Sabine; | Environmental Systems Engineering - University of Regina | 5 | 101,800 | |
| 2022 | British Columbia | The University of British Columbia | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Boley, Aaron | DH | Orbital and surface risks from rocket bodies: Physical challenges, interdisciplinary solutions | Byers, Michael | Physics and Astronomy - Physics and Astronomy | 5 | 100,000 | |
| 2022 | Manitoba | University of Manitoba | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Ballard, Myrle | DH | Using Anishinaabe Mowin for Aquatics Management: 3-voices and 3-eyed seeing | Docker, Margaret | Chemistry | 5 | 100,000 | |
| 2022 | Newfoundland and Labrador | Memorial University of Newfoundland | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Liboiron, Max | DH | Indigenous and decolonial quantitative methodologies | Geography | 5 | 99,847 | ||
| 2022 | Ontario | McMaster University | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Saravanamuttu, Kalaichelvi | DH | Photoresponsive, biocompatible materials for reconfigurable intraocular lenses | Sheardown, Heather; Vargas-Baca, Ignacio | Chemistry and Chemical Biology | 5 | 89,000 | |
| 2022 | Ontario | McMaster University | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Trainor, Laurel | DH | Understanding the neurocognitive mechanisms of learning culturally unfamiliar music | Freeman, Bonnie; Monture, Richard | Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour - Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour | 3 | 97,750 | |
| 2022 | Ontario | The University of Western Ontario | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Diop, Mamadou | DH | Hyperspectral Compressive Sensing Spectrometer for Adult Neuromonitoring in Cardiac Surgery | Jennewein, Thomas; Chui, Jason | Medical Biophysics | 5 | 200,937 | |
| 2022 | Quebec | McGill University | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Pack, Christopher | DH | Dynamical systems for non-invasive control of neural activity | Thivierge, Jean-Philippe | Neurology and Neurosurgery - Neurology and Neurosurgery | 5 | 100,000 | |
| 2022 | Quebec | Université de Montréal | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Bengio, Yoshua | DH | Novel generative active learning algorithms for exploring the space of antimicrobial peptides to respond to antibiotics resistance | Tyers, Michael | Informatique et recherche opérationnelle - Informatique et recherche opérationnelle | 5 | 99,880 | |
| 2022 | Quebec | Université de Sherbrooke | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Iorio-Morin, Christian | DH | Restoring the volitional control of a paralyzed limb using patient-controlled spinal cord stimulation | Michaud, François; Frigon, Alain; MARCHILDON, ALLISON; Fontaine, Réjean | Neurochirurgie | 5 | 100,000 | |
| 2022 | Quebec | Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières | Discovery Horizons/Horizons de la découverte | Forbes, Shari | DH | Discovery of biomarker signatures to accurately estimate time since death | Stotesbury, Theresa; Szpak, Paul; Shafer, Aaron | Départment de Chimie, Biochimie et Physique | 5 | 98,700 |