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Four exploratory 91社区-led projects funded by the New Frontiers in Research Fund 2020 Exploration Grants.

The (NFRF) 2020 awarded $14.5 million听in funding support to 117听research projects across Canada. The fund supports research that merges disciplines in non-traditional ways, 鈥渢o explore something new that might fail, but has the potential for significant impact.鈥� 91社区 recipients will receive $1 million shared among four projects, with each receiving up to $250,000 over the next two years.

The NFRF鈥檚 Exploration stream was created to address gaps in the federal funding system, specifically to to promote innovation and research that defies current paradigms, bridges disciplines, or tackles fundamental problems from new perspectives.

91社区鈥檚 funded Exploration research projects aim to create significant advances in our world鈥攆rom creating new sustainable energy technologies that can help combat global climate change, to improving drug delivery using a new generation of DNA-based nanomaterials. Projects will also aim to discover new and easier ways of detecting anomalies in our Galaxy and to study the laws of developmental timing in embryonic cells in order to better understand fetal malformation.

NFRF is an initiative of the and is managed as a tri-agency program on behalf of the , the and the .

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List of 91社区 projects awarded in the 2020 NFRF Exploration competition:

Quantum Imaging of Enzymatic Electron Transfer Dynamics at the Single-Molecule Level

Principal Investigator: Kirk Bevan, Department of Mining & Materials Engineering.

Co-Principal Investigator: , Department of Physics.

Collaborators: Hanadi Sleiman, Department of Chemistry.

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Toward automated synthesis of DNA nanomaterials

Principal Investigator: Gonzalo Cosa, Department of Chemistry

Co-Principal Investigator: Hanadi Sleiman, Department of Chemistry

Collaborator: David Juncker, Department of Biomedical Engineering

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The geometry of developmental timing

Principal Investigator: Paul Fran莽ois, Department of Physics

Co-Principal Investigator: , Developmental Biology, EMBL Heidelberg

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Learning to Find Galactic Anomalies Application

Principal Investigator: , School of Computer Science

Co-Principal Investigator: , Department of Physics, Universit茅 de Montr茅al.

Collaborators: (Universit茅 de Montr茅al), (91社区), (University of Toronto), (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), (Universit茅 de Montr茅al).

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