Research funder · Canada

Canada Foundation for Innovation

Foundation

innovation.ca

Grants since 2016: 4 593
Awarded, last 5 years (where amounts are published): CAD 1.9B
Funded works, last 5 years: 599
Funded works, all time: 1 365

Grants

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Intelligent Navigation And Mapping System For Autonomous Driving

Hongzhou Yang · University of Calgary

CAD 150k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Spinning disc microscopy infrastructure for advanced imaging and structural biology applications

Christine Roden · Université de Montréal

CAD 171.6k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Laboratory for marine blue carbon analysis

Heather Reader · Memorial University of Newfoundland

CAD 75k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Mechanisms of Beta Cell Dysfunction in Diabetes

Kacey Prentice · University of Toronto

CAD 260k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Research hub for allogeneic cell therapy

Jongbok Lee · University of Calgary

CAD 300k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Comparative analysis of chemosensing mechanisms by vertebrate neuroepithelial cells

Erin Leonard · Wilfrid Laurier University

CAD 77.2k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Structure-guided Development of Oligonucleotides for Biosensing and Therapeutic Applications

Rui Huang · University of Guelph

CAD 79.7k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Tackling Antibiotic Resistance Generation and Establishing Test Surveillance for TB (TARGETS for TB)

Jim Jian Sun · University of British Columbia

CAD 320k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Advancing Innovations in Social Communication in Aging and Dementia Through Technology-Based Outcomes and Interventions

Angela Roberts · Western University

CAD 176.4k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Exploring bacterial electron transport chains towards novel treatment of infection

Justin Di Trani · University of Alberta

CAD 212.7k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Advancing DNA-based Nanoswitches Using Single Molecule Fluorescence Methods: Towards Precision Detection and Delivery

Amani Hariri · University of British Columbia

CAD 150k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

BMO Soil Analytical Laboratory

Colin Laroque · University of Saskatchewan

CAD 761.7k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Polymers for a Hydrogen Economy: Designing Electrolytes and Ionomers for the Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell

Kelly Meek · Concordia University

CAD 130k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Integrated microbial culture facility for near-realtime evolutionary analysis

Rees Kassen · McGill University

CAD 435.4k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Infrastructure for Advanced Cell Mechanics and Mechanobiology Study

Lidan You · Queen's University

CAD 150k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Center for Research in Interdisciplinary Sciences (CRIS)

Jean-Pierre Desforges · The University of Winnipeg

CAD 160k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Stable Isotopes to Study Changing Northern Environments

Kyra St. Pierre · University of Ottawa

CAD 601.8k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Innovations in Photostable Fluorophores and Novel Super-Resolution Techniques

Terri Lovell · University of Ottawa

CAD 320.8k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Vulnerability Hunting in Internet of Things through Binary Code Analysis

Paria Shirani · University of Ottawa

CAD 300k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Superconducting Millimeter-Wave Circuits for Quantum Applications

Bradley Hauer · University of Waterloo

CAD 80k

2024 · infrastructure · Biosciences Research Infrastructure Fund

Viral vector vaccine platforms for rapid response to future pandemics

Peter Pelka, Maya Shmulevitz · University of Manitoba

CAD 38.1M

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Engineering Solar-Driven Industrial Chemical Processes for the Net Zero Economy

Alexandra Tavasoli · University of British Columbia

CAD 147.2k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Impact of Interventions Targeting Cardiometabolic Health on the Brain

Andréanne Michaud · Université Laval

CAD 80.1k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Prenatal and Postnatal Exposures on Adiposity Development in infantS (PEADS) Laboratory

Maryam Kebbe · University of New Brunswick

CAD 150k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Imaginative Methods Lab: new methods and tools for participatory futures literacy and practices

Gillian Russell · Simon Fraser University

CAD 124.9k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

A robotic neurophysiology platform for the study of sensorimotor control in ethologically-relevant behaviors

Matthew Perich · Université de Montréal

CAD 120k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Triple Quadrupole Liquid Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry for Micropollutant Control Investigation

Chengjin Wang · University of Manitoba

CAD 159.8k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Canadian Research Chair in Indigenous Resiliency

Tiffany Prete · University of Lethbridge

CAD 69.3k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

The effects of temperature on ecological and evolutionary dynamics

Tess Grainger · University of Guelph

CAD 84k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Highly sensitive high-throughput biosensors for early cancer diagnostics and food safety applications

Huiyan Li · University of Guelph

CAD 102k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Scalable Discrete Integration Engines

Kuldeep S. Meel · University of Toronto

CAD 110k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Portable photosynthesis and gas analysis system for innovative plant-soil-microbial research

Malinda Thilakarathna · University of Alberta

CAD 116.5k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Nanospetroscopie Raman in situ pour les matériaux avancés appliqués en énergie et en santé

Guillaume Goubert · Université du Québec à Montréal

CAD 473k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Unraveling myeloid cell diversity in difficult-to-treat cancers for rational therapeutic targeting

Maya Saleh · Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique

CAD 299.7k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Temperature-control Structure-Property Characterization (TSPC) System for Future Energy System and Material Science

Bo Zhang · University of Alberta

CAD 236.4k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Metabolic regulation of KNDy neuron development.

Alejandro Lomniczi · Dalhousie University

CAD 124.4k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

CPU-GPU Accelerated Optimal Process Design and Control to Rigorously Model Space-Time

Joshua Pulsipher · University of Waterloo

CAD 80k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Discovery of patient-specific therapies for brain cancers

Jerome Fortin · McGill University

CAD 167k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Understanding Reaction Mechanism and Properties of Low-carbon Cements/Concretes

Adeyemi Adesina · University of Windsor

CAD 75k

2024 · infrastructure · John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Interrogating plasticity of electro-chemical synapses using multiphoton imaging microscopy

Georg Zoidl · York University

CAD 200k