McMaster awarded more than $11.6M in research grants
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McMaster has been awarded more than $11.6 million in research grants.
The new funds come from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and will support the work of 64 investigators over five years. Projects range from molecular and developmental genetics, evolution and ecology, plant biology and food science, industrial engineering and inorganic and organic chemistry.
Mo Elbestawi, vice-president of research and international affairs, says McMaster's success in this year's Discovery Grants competition is a reminder of the talented individuals who conduct their work at McMaster.
“The results speak volumes of our researchers' excellence and their collective ability to attract the grants that are, for all intents and purposes, the foundation of our research enterprise,” he said, noting the national average of success was 58 per cent, while McMaster researchers had a 70 per cent success rate.
Nationally, the average annual grant totaled slightly more than $33,000, while McMaster's average annual award topped $37,000.
The funding will go toward researchers such as Cecile Fradin, associate professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy and Canada Research Chair in Molecular Biophysics, who studies mutant fruit flies. By adding a fluorescent tag to a protein involved in embryonic development, Fradin is able to better understand how cells differentiate in the flies, which are genetically similar to humans.
Funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council will be announced next month.
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