BY Office of Public Relations
April 10, 2003
McMaster will submit 23 applications valued at $55 million to the 2003 Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) competition, according to a report to Senate from the University Planning Committee.
Established in 1997, CFI provides research infrastructure awards to universities, colleges, research hospitals and not-for-profit institutions. Its budget over the 10-year period is $3.65 billion. This year, CFI will invest up to $450 million for projects with total project costs of $150,000 or more.
All universities are required to submit applications to CFI by May 30, 2003. A funding decision will be made in February, 2004.
In 2002, CFI received more than 900 notices of intent requesting more than $2.5 billion. As a result, CFI implemented an allocation strategy to reduce both the number and value of applications, setting a maximum envelop for each institution.
McMaster originally submitted 37 applications valued at $91 million. Three internal review panels reviewed the submissions and recommended which ones they felt should received full institutional endorsement.
McMaster's largest funding request is for a $11.6-million Institute for Life-Related Systems, led by engineering professor Simon Haykin.
Other projects include: (one project yet to be removed for a total of 23 applications)
Business:
$600,000 million for a laboratory for financial markets research, John Siam
Engineering:
$3.5 million for the discovery and characterization of quantum materials, John Preston
$3 million for the Canadian Network Enabled Optimization System, Tamas Terlaky
$1 million for a surface engineering laboratory, Stephen Veldhuis
$492,000 for a field emission gun scanning electron microscope, David Wilkinson
$400,000 for major equipment for digital camera research, Xiaolin Wu
Health Sciences:
$5.5 million for interacting cellular systems and chemical genetics, David Andrews
$880,000 for the gut and the environment study, Stephen Collins
$4 million for a McMaster Centre of Optimal Use of Health Research Evidence, Brian Haynes
$4 million for the development of a proteomics research centre for the investigation of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity and respiratory disorders, Matthew McQueen
Science:
$1 million for magnetic resonance of modern material, Alex Bain
$469,200 for a biological microbeam for low dose radiology research, Douglas Boreham
$354,470 for infrastructure for a parallel synthesis, screening and optimization laboratory, Alfredo Capretta
$3.9 million for the Hamilton Regional Radioimaging and Radionuclide Radiotherapy Research Initiative, David Chettle
$1.3 million for a centre for genomics and environmental health, Brian Golding
$848,000 for new opportunities for x-ray analysis of hard and soft materials, John Greedan
$380,000 for polymer microscopy, Adam Hitchcock
$1.4 million for a core facility for the genetic studies of model organisms, Roger Jacobs
$640,000 for a microscope for the purpose of atomic defect engineering on compound semiconductors and the study of superconducting materials, Peter Kruse
$3.5 million for an origins institute visualization, nuclear astrophysics and evolutionary biology laboratories, Ralph Pudritz
$415,400 for a facility for the characterization of nonlinear photonic materials, Ignacio Vargas-Baca
$1.9 million for a wetland laboratory network for the study of environmental health and ecosystems interactions, Mike Waddington
Social Sciences:
$2.8 million for infrastructure for the evaluation and optimization of health and movement in special populations, Neil McCartney
National facility:
$4.8 million for a national ultrahigh-resolution electron microscopy facility for nanoscale materials research, Gianluigi Botton
Inter-institutional contributions:
$3.5 million for SharcNet, Hugh Couchman
