2024/2025 Research Accelerator Award Projects

• A quantitative understanding of the experience of people who use opioids in British Columbia – Karan Bains, University of British Columbia

• Unraveling Dolly Varden Survival Patterns: A Bayesian Multi-state Approach with Covariate Considerations – Arjun Banik, University of Victoria

• Using machine learning to analyze R-loop imaging data -Berkant Cünnük, University of Manitoba

• Penalized Models for Cancer Prognosis and Treatment Response – Mojtaba Kanani Sarcheshmeh, University of Calgary

• Integrating Control Theory and EEG Data Analysis for Advancing Parkinson’s Disease Research – Maryam Kiakojouri, University of Lethbridge

• Identifying Paired Antigen Receptor Subunits from Spatial Gene Expression Data for Ovarian Cancer – Flora (Yimeng) Liu, University of Victoria

• Validation of biomechanical models of oocyte cryopreservation damage – Dominic Olver, University of Saskatchewan

• Impact of Government Policies and Opinion Dynamics on the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Yukon Territory and the British Columbia (Interior) of Canada – Md. Mijanur Rahman, University of British Columbia, Okanagan

• Mathematical Biology Heterogeneous Disease Modelling – Alexandra Shyntar, University of Alberta

• Bayesian behavioural change epidemic models – Madeline Ward, University of Calgary

• Agricultural green house gas emissions modeling for citizen- and data-driven research in agroecology, University of British Columbia

• Study the transmission of viral pathogens among four fish species in the Western Canadian Arctic, considering the impact of climate change. – Clotilde Djuikem, University of Manitoba

• Zahresh Walji, Simon Fraser University