Funding & statisitcs
uLethbridge attracts over $15 million annually in research funding from governmental agencies, industry, foundations and associations, and numerous international partners.
Overview of 2019/20 research funding
$15.79M
Total funding
$5.64M
The value of Tri-Agency funding
40+
Number of Sponsoring Agencies
All funding received
| Faculty member | Faculty/School | Agency | Project name | Funds awarded | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gruber, Aaron | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates Health Solutions | The effect of a prevalent Albertan parasite on brain health | $150,000 | 2016 |
| Hosgood, Christopher | Health Sciences | Alberta Innovates Health Solutions | AIHS HRNI: Brassolotto | $813,125 | 2016 |
| Brassolotto, Julia | Health Sciences | Alberta Innovates Health Solutions | Healthy Futures and Rural Wellbeing | $186,875 | 2016 |
| Hazendonk, Paul | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates Technology Futures | High Performance Plastics Through Energy Efficient Rotational Molding | $60,000 | 2016 |
| Okine, Erasmus | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovation and Advanced Education | Clincial 3T Human MRI facility | $74,000 | 2016 |
| Mohajerani, Majid | Arts & Science | Alberta Prion Research Institute | Development of Smart Home Cage System for High Throughput Longitudinal Monitoring and Analysis of Animal Health, Behavior and Brain Activity | $120,000 | 2018 |
| Zovoilis, Athan | Alberta Prion Research Institute | Dissecting the role of protein misfolding in hyper-activation of immediate early genes through B2 RNA in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model. | $200,048 | 2017 | |
| Sutherland, Robert | Arts & Science | Alberta Prion Research Institute | Imaging spread of pathogenic effects of amyloid-§ seeding | $142,300 | 2016 |
| Mohajerani, Majid | Arts & Science | Alberta Prion Research Institute | Probing the impact of noradrenergic circuits and their role in resetting excitation/inhibition balance in Alzheimer's disease | $199,950 | 2017 |
| Byrne, James | Arts & Science | Alberta Real Estate Foundation | Defining challenges and opportunities for South Sask. watershed communities under a rapidly changing climate: Regional Analyses and Case Studies | $50,000 | 2020 |
| Nicol, Lorraine | Arts & Science | Alberta Real Estate Foundation | WPACs and Municipalities - Joint Initiatives and their Effect on Municipal Planning for Sustainable Communities in Alberta | $30,000 | 2020 |
| Nicol, Lorraine | University Library | Alberta Real Estate Foundation | Advancements in Irrigation Agriculture with Implications for Economic and Community Development and Environmental Stewardship in Southern Alberta | $25,000 | 2018 |
| Le Roy, Danny | Arts & Science | Alberta Sugar Beet Growers | Alberta Sugar Beet Growers | $1,000 | 2019 |
| Sutherland, Robert | Arts & Science | Alzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories | Catalyzing fundamental dementia research at Lethbridge | $500,000 | 2017 |
| Mohajerani, Majid | Arts & Science | Alzheimer Society of Alberta and NWT | Biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease: Investigation of their onset, origin, and longitudinal effects on neuronal connectivity, and animal behaviour | $149,000 | 2018 |
| Mohajerani, Majid | Arts & Science | Alzheimer Society of Alberta and NWT | Determining relation between traffic noise stress, amyloid deposition, brain connectivity and cognitive impairment | $150,000 | 2018 |
| Zovoilis, Athan | Alzheimer Society of Alberta and NWT | Dissecting the role of protein misfolding in SINE RNA mediated hyper-activation of immediate early genes in Alzheimer's disease | $200,000 | 2018 | |
| Mohajerani, Majid | Alzheimer Society of Canada | Toward dissecting the etiology of Alzheimer's disease: Is altered neuronal activity a pathology or compensation? | $199,950 | 2016 | |
| Demeler, Borries | Arts & Science | Applied Pharmaceutical Innovation | Caktech Travel Award | $3,348 | 2020 |
| Bubel, Shawn | Arts & Science | Archaeological Society of Alberta | ASA Archaeological Research | $5,000 | 2016 |
| Pijl, Em | Health Sciences | ARCHES | Peer Assisted Injection in SCS | $9,500 | 2019 |
| Gruber, Aaron | Arts & Science | Beswick | Mechanisms of addiction in the brain | $102,773 | 2017 |
| Kolb, Bryan | Arts & Science | Brain Canada | Early years intervention on a First Nations Reserve | $3,461,100 | 2017 |
| Gruber, Aaron | Arts & Science | Branch Out Neurological Foundation | The effect of Ibogaine as a natural treatment for drug addition | $10,000 | 2017 |
| Gibb, Robbin | Arts & Science | Branch Out Neurological Foundation | Cannabis and the Brain: Assessing the Differential Effects of Cannabis Strains on Neuroinflammation, Behaviour and Neuroanatomy in Rodent Models | $2,000 | 2020 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Branch Out Neurological Foundation | The Effects of Prenatal Stress on Immune Activation and the Severity of Multiple Sclerosis in an Animal Model | $1,000 | 2016 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Branch Out Neurological Foundation | Understanding the Impact of Early Experience on MS Risk | $1,000 | 2016 |
| D'Agnone, Penny | Arts & Science | Branch Out Neurological Foundation | Branch Out Undergrad Awards | $6,375 | 2016 |
| Doan, Jon | Arts & Science | Branch Out Neurological Foundation | Branch Out: Bykowski | $1,000 | 2016 |
| Gibb, Robbin | Arts & Science | Branch Out Neurological Foundation | Maternal Experience and Brain Development of Offspring - Serena Jenkins | $2,000 | 2017 |
| Leung, Brenda | Health Sciences | Calgary Foundation | Qualitative Inquiry within a Clinical Trial Evaluating Micronutrients for ADHD Youth: The "MADDY" Study | $10,000 | 2019 |
| Naylor, David | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | Cryogenic test facility for the development of new instrument concepts for future space astronomy missions | $250,000 | 2019 |
| Wiseman, Steve | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | Establishment of a Mechanistic Toxicology Facility | $121,557 | 2016 |
| Demeler, Borries | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | Canadian Centre for Hydrodynamics | $74,813 | 2019 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | State-of-the-Art Vivarium of the New Science and Academic Building | $26,460 | 2020 |
| Bogard, Matthew | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | Multiple stressor impacts on the functioning of aquatic networks | $100,000 | 2018 |
| Mueller, Richard | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | CRDCN: Evolving to Meet New Research Data Needs and Policy Priorities | $11,952 | 2016 |
| Demeler, Borries | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | Establishment of a Canadian Center for Hydrodynamics | $249,376 | 2017 |
| Spencer, Locke | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | Calibration Suite for Far-Infrared Astrophysics Instrumentation | $150,000 | 2017 |
| Giroux, Monique | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | Ethnography and Community Engagement | $13,387 | 2019 |
| Zovoilis, Athan | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | RNA Bioinformatics and Genomics Laboratory | $100,000 | 2016 |
| Li, Hua | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | Platform for Advanced Design Leading to Manufacturing in Micro-Nano Technologies | $0 | 2016 |
| Patel, Trushar | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | Interaction Studies of Purified Biomolecules | $343,458 | 2017 |
| Zovoilis, Athan | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | RNA Bioinformatics and Genomics Laboratory | $15,939 | 2018 |
| Barrett, Louise | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | Understanding behavioural plasticity in human and non-human primates | $31,000 | 2018 |
| Mueller, Richard | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | The CRDCN Transition to High Performance Computing: Liberating Data for Research and Policy | $11,952 | 2016 |
| Giroux, Monique | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | Ethnography and Community Engagement Studio | $44,042 | 2017 |
| Spencer, Locke | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | Calibration Suite for Far-Infrared | $300,000 | 2019 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | State-of-the-Art Vivarium of the New Science and Academic Building | $88,199 | 2019 |
| Iwaniuk, Andrew | Arts & Science | Canada Research Chairs | Canada Research Chair In Comparative Neuroanatomy | $500,000 | 2018 |