Posted on March 4: Three McMaster researchers awarded $434,448 in CFI funding

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BY Chantall Van Raay

March 4, 2003

Three more up-and-coming McMaster researchers are the latest recipients of the Canada Foundation for Innovation's (CFI) New Opportunities Funding program.

A total of $434,448 will provide world-class labs and facilities for the newly recruited faculty members to undertake leading-edge research in their first full-time academic appointment.

The funding is part of more than $17.7 million awarded to 97 of the nation's emerging research leaders at 26 Canadian universities.

McMaster's recipients are:

  • Paulin Coulibaly, assistant professor jointly in geography & geology and civil engineering, was awarded $207,490 to research high-resolution soil moisture, through measurement, characterization, modeling and hydrologic applications.
  • Geoff Werstuck, assistant professor of medicine in the Faculty of Health Sciences, was awarded $132,719, to study molecular mechanisms by which diabetes mellitus promotes the development and progression of atherogenesis.
  • Yiping Guo, assistant professor of civil engineering, received $94,239 for field research for the control of non-point source water pollution.

In CFI's last round of New Opportunities Funding in October 2002, five McMaster researchers received more than $2 million in research support. They are:

  • Alex Adronov, assistant professor of chemistry, awarded $179,392 to research the design, synthesis, and characterization of polymer-functionalized carbon nanotubes and supramolecular polymer assemblies.
  • Brian King, assistant professor of physics, awarded $399,851 for a research laboratory for trapped-ion quantum computation and quantum state engineering.
  • Karen Mossman, assistant professor of microbiology, awarded $205,587 to study the characterization of virus-host interactions and the antiviral state against virus particles.
  • David Shore, assistant professor of psychology, awarded $173,333 for research into multisensory integration: attention, eye movements and electrophysiology.
  • Qing-Chang Xu, associate professor of engineering physics, awarded $211,101 for research on optical waveguide devices based on lithium niobate substrates.

To date, 55 McMaster research projects have received a cumulative total of $9,975,945 in New Opportunities Funds.

A list of the projects approved by the CFI to date, and a listing of the approved funding for the latest announcement, are available here.