An overview of research funding received by the Faculty of Science
Research statistics
Competitive research funding, research chairs, technology transfer and more – learn about the Faculty of Science’s successes last year.
Funding
Research funding received by the Faculty of Science in 2019-2020
| Source | Amount | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) | $1,480,542 | 4% |
| Tri-council grants | $13,043,527 | 35% |
| Other external operating | $15,665,095 | 42% |
| Internal funding | $2,546,006 | 7% |
| Contracts - Government | $3,376,956 | 9% |
| Contrats - Industry | $1,562,743 | 4% |
Major funding success stories
Earth and Environment Sciences
Earth and Environment Sciences
New Geology program prepares next generation of international marine geologists
Successful partnership rewarded with a highly prestigious NSERC Collaborative Research and Training Experience Program (CREATE) grant.
Chemistry and Biomolecular Sc.
Chemistry and Biomolecular Sc.
CIHR funding to develop effective and low-cost COVID-19 diagnostic test
Professor Berezovski and his team are designing a diagnostic tool that would provide a fast test result with an accuracy rate of 90 percent.
Mathematics and Statistics
Mathematics and Statistics
Using AI to understand how the brain interacts with the external environment
Professor Maia Fraser is part of a multidisciplinary research team that uses Artificial Intelligence to study the brain and its interactions.
Multidisciplinary
Multidisciplinary
Unconventional combinations of disciplines to tackle research
Four professors from the Faculty of Science are part of successful teams who received NFRF-Exploration funding in 2019/20.
Success in numbers
17
awards to our researchers
83
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) scholarship recipients
66
Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) scholarship recipients
Chairs
31 research chair holders
1 new chair
- Nicolas Corradi – URC in Microbial Genomics
Active chairs in 2019/20
- University Research Chair (URC): 13
- Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC): 9
- Tier 2 Canada Research Chair: 8
- Endowed Research Chair: 1
4 chairs renewed:
- Stephen Newman – Tier 2 CRC in Sustainable Catalysis
- Adam Shuhendler – Tier 2 in Chemical Biology
- Anne Broadbent – URC in Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Pawel Hawrylak – URC in Quantum Theory of Materials, Nanostructures and Devices
Grants
- $37M in grants
- 95% success rate in the 2019/20 NSERC Discovery Grant competition
- 1 new NSERC CREATE grant
- 4 NFRF – Exploration grants (2 as PI and 2 as co-PI)
23
Emeritus professors
308
PhD students
273
MSc students
Researchers
- 156 APUO researchers
- 128 Postdoctoral researchers
- 2 new researchers:
- Simon Henry, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
- Jérémie Lefebvre, Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Research
- 10 invention disclosures
- 13 patents issued
- 36 patent applications filed
- 115 contracts signed
