All Funded Projects 2021-2022

Sector Project Title Organization(s) Leader(s) Total Funding
AcCELLerate-ON
Agriculture & Food Creating Cultivated Pork Belly that is Structurally and Biochemically Identical to Conventional Pork Belly Caro Meats Alireza Shahin,
John Cappuccitti
$200,000
Agriculture & Food Fermentation-based production of heme as a natural flavour ingredient Ardra Bio Inc Pratish Gawand $199,925
Agriculture & Food Project to Scale-Up the Manufacturing of Fish Muscle Stem Cells from a 2D to 3D Culture System with Proteomic Assessment CELL AG TECH Valentin Fulga,
Joshua Hart Pollack
$333,502
Agriculture & Food Establishing the foundational tools for synthetic biology directed pork production University of Toronto Michael Garton $200,000
All for One Health Data Ecosystem
Health Defining a Canadian data solution that will deliver precision health for rare genetic disease Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Kym Boycott $950,000
CanCOGeN Capacity Building
Health CanCOGeN Capacity Building - PHO Public Health Ontario Samir Patel $88,250
Health CanCOGeN Capacity Building - Hamilton Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program Marek Smieja, David Bulir $528,000
Health CanCOGeN Capacity Building - Kingston Kingston Health Sciences Centre Prameet Sheth $236,000
Health CanCOGeN Capacity Building - UHN Mount Sinai Hospital Allison McGeer, Tony Mazzulli $243,000
Health CanCOGeN Capacity Building - SickKids The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Aaron Campigotto $88,250
COVID-19 Regional Genomics Initiative (CORGI)
Health Ontario SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern Surveillance in Wastewater Pilot Program University of Guelph Lawrence Goodridge,
Robert Delatolla
$338,446
GENOMICS APPLICATIONS PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM (GAPP)
Environment & Bioproducts Fast track diagnosis of stress, disease, phenology and growth (FastPheno) University of Toronto,
Natural Resources Canada,
Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs du Québec
Ingo Ensminger,
Nathalie Isabel,
Julie Godbout
$4,744,502
Health YCharOS – Antibody Characterization Through Open Science – From Viruses to Human Proteins McGill University,
YCharOS Inc.
Peter McPherson,
Chetan Raina
$3,979,175
Environment & Bioproducts Production of medium-chain length polyhydroxyalkanoate from food waste University of Waterloo,
EcoPoly Solutions
Hyung-Sool Lee,
Bryon Wolff
$3,377,731
Health Lowpass Genomic Instability Characterization as a Comprehensive Cancer and Germline Diagnostic Assay The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids),
Mount Sinai Hospital
Cynthia Hawkins,
Uri Tabori,
Aaron Pollett,
Gino Somers
$2,774,310
Landing Pad Investment Program (LPIP)
Agriculture & Food Animal-free gelatin from pulse starch Liven Proteins Fei Luo $100,000
Agriculture & Food Probiotics for plants to increase crop yields Ceragen Danielle Rose $100,000
Ontario Genomics Initiatives
Environment & Bioproducts AAFC Upcycling Consortium (ACT Program) Ontario Genomics,
University of Waterloo,
University of Toronto, + More
Trevor Charles,
Hyung-Sool Lee,
Krishna Mahadevan,
Emma Master,
+ More
$2,368,994
Total Funding for 2021-2022 $20,850,085

AcCELLerate-ON

Sector: Agriculture & Food
Creating Cultivated Pork Belly that is Structurally and Biochemically Identical to Conventional Pork Belly

Caro Meats

Alireza Shahin, John Cappuccitti

Total Funding: $200,000

Sector: Agriculture & Food
Fermentation-based production of heme as a natural flavour ingredient

Ardra Bio Inc

Pratish Gawand

Total Funding: $199,925

Sector: Agriculture & Food
Project to Scale-Up the Manufacturing of Fish Muscle Stem Cells from a 2D to 3D Culture System with Proteomic Assessment

CELL AG TECH

Valentin Fulga, Joshua Hart Pollack

Total Funding: $333,502

Sector: Agriculture & Food
Establishing the foundational tools for synthetic biology directed pork production

University of Toronto

Michael Garton

Total Funding: $200,000

All for One Health Data Ecosystem

Sector: Health
Defining a Canadian data solution that will deliver precision health for rare genetic disease

Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO)

Kym Boycott

Total Funding: $950,000

CanCOGeN Capacity Building

Sector: Health
CanCOGeN Capacity Building - PHO

Public Health Ontario

Samir Patel

Total Funding: $88,250

Sector: Health
CanCOGeN Capacity Building - Hamilton

Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program

Marek Smieja, David Bulir

Total Funding: $528,000

Sector: Health
CanCOGeN Capacity Building - Kingston

Kingston Health Sciences Centre

Prameet Sheth

Total Funding: $236,000

Sector: Health
CanCOGeN Capacity Building - UHN

Mount Sinai Hospital

Allison McGeer, Tony Mazzulli

Total Funding: $243,000

Sector: Health
CanCOGeN Capacity Building - SickKids

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)

Aaron Campigotto

Total Funding: $88,250

COVID-19 Regional Genomics Initiative (CORGI)

Sector: Health
Ontario SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern Surveillance in Wastewater Pilot Program

University of Guelph

Lawrence Goodridge, Robert Delatolla

Total Funding: $338,446

GENOMICS APPLICATIONS PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM (GAPP)

Sector: Environment & Bioproducts
Fast track diagnosis of stress, disease, phenology and growth (FastPheno)

University of Toronto, Natural Resources Canada, Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs du Québec

Ingo Ensminger, Nathalie Isabel, Julie Godbout

Total Funding: $4,744,502

Sector: Health
YCharOS – Antibody Characterization Through Open Science – From Viruses to Human Proteins

McGill University, YCharOS Inc.

Peter McPherson, Chetan Raina

Total Funding: $3,979,175

Sector: Environment & Bioproducts
Production of medium-chain length polyhydroxyalkanoate from food waste

University of Waterloo, EcoPoly Solutions

Hyung-Sool Lee, Bryon Wolff

Total Funding: $3,377,731

Sector: Health
Lowpass Genomic Instability Characterization as a Comprehensive Cancer and Germline Diagnostic Assay

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Mount Sinai Hospital

Cynthia Hawkins, Uri Tabori, Aaron Pollett, Gino Somers

Total Funding: $2,774,310

Landing Pad Investment Program (LPIP)

Sector: Agriculture & Food
Animal-free gelatin from pulse starch

Liven Proteins

Fei Luo

Total Funding: $100,000

Sector: Agriculture & Food
Probiotics for plants to increase crop yields

Ceragen

Danielle Rose

Total Funding: $100,000

Ontario Genomics initiatives

Sector: Environment & Bioproducts
Environment & Bioproducts

Ontario Genomics, University of Waterloo, University of Toronto, + More

Trevor Charles, Hyung-Sool Lee, Krishna Mahadevan, Emma Master, + More

Total Funding: $2,368,994

Total Funding for 2021-2022: $20,850,085