May 12, 2016
Three professors from The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering are among nine researchers across the University of Toronto who have won 2016 Connaught Innovation Awards. Part of U of T’s Connaught Fund, the largest internal university research funding program in Canada, the awards accelerate the development of promising technology and promote commercialization and knowledge transfer. This year’s recipients will share more than $750,000 in funding.
The funding comes from two Connaught programs. The Connaught Innovation Award accelerates the development of promising technologies and promotes knowledge transfer arising from the U of T. The Connaught Summer Institute brings together Canadian and international graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and other scholars to foster collaboration among disciplines and support new methods for research and innovation.
This year’s ECE recipients and their projects are are:
Stewart Aitchison
An Optimized Waveguide Based Light Delivery System for Algal Biofilm Reactors
Roman Genov
Pre-market Clinical Validation of a Seizure-Aborting Smart Implantable Neurostimulator for Treating Drug-Resistant Epilepsy
Glenn Gulak
A Wireless CMOS Device for Rapid Point of Care Diagnosis of Bacterial Infections
Founded in 1972, the Connaught Fund was created from the sale of the Connaught Laboratories. The labs mass-produced insulin, the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of U of T’s Frederick Banting, Charles Best, John Macleod and Charles Collip. The university has managed the fund for more than 40 years, over that time awarding more than $150 million to U of T researchers.
Learn more about this year’s recipients of the Connaught Innovation Award.
With files from Engineering Strategic Communications
More information:
Jessica MacInnis
Senior Communications Officer
The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
416-978-7997; jessica.macinnis@utoronto.ca