Federal fund will support transformative high risk, high reward research across engineering, science, and medicine at McGill.

 
McGill recipients:  

Improved Peripheral Nerve Regeneration with Bioresorbable Wireless Electrical Stimulator  
Sharmistha Bhadra, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Principal Investigator) 
Ji  Zhang, Professor, Faculty of Dental and Oral Health (co-Principal Investigator) 
Total: $250,000 
 
Wired for repair: building synthetic axons to unlock myelin regeneration  
Marta Cerruti, Professor, Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, Co-director of the McGill Institute for Advanced Materials (Principal Investigator) 
Timothy Kennedy, Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery (co-Principal Investigator) 
Thomas Szkopek, Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (Collaborator) 
Total: $250,000 
 
A novel approach for safe and efficient pesticide application for pathogen control in crop plants  
Subhasis Ghoshal, Professor, Civil Engineering, Director of the Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design (Principal Investigator) 
Martin Filion, Associate Professor, Department of Plant Science (co-Principal Investigator) 
Carolyn Baglole, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine (co-Applicant) 
Aurélie Harou, Associate Professor, Department of Natural Resource Sciences (Collaborator) 
Codruta Ignea, Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering (Collaborator) 
Total: $250,000 
 
From elite labs to every desk: democratizing lab-on-a-chip through knowledge dissemination and community building 
David Juncker, Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering (Principal Investigator) 
Ma'n Zawati, Associate Professor, Department of Human Genetics (co-Applicant) 
Total: $250,000 
 
A Circular Energy System Based on the Combustion of Metals through their Recycling using Carbenes  
Marc-André Légaré, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry (Principal Investigator) 
Janine Mauzeroll, Professor, Department of Chemistry (co-Principal Investigator) 
Jeffrey Bergthorson, William Dawson Scholar and Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering (co-Applicant) 
Total: $250,000