Innovacorp’s Early Stage Commercialization Fund (ESCF) helps move Nova Scotia university and community college research to market. Below is a list of the 2015-2016 funded projects.
Winter 2016 Round
Dalhousie University
Researcher: Gurcan Gercek, Stan Matwin
Project: Scalable attribute-based access control with the Accumulo NoSQL database
Researcher: David Roach, Hamed Hanafi
Project: BreathingAssist
Researcher: Christopher Sinal
Project: CMKLR1 antagonists for the treatment of osteoporosis
Researcher: Louis Desgrosseilliers, Dominic Groulx, Mary Anne White, Alain Joseph
Project: Chemical heat storage room heater
Researcher: Lukas Swan, Chris White, Justin Deveau
Project: Method of detecting lead-acid battery formation completeness using internal resistance
St. Francis Xavier University
Researcher: David A. Risk and colleagues of the St. Francis Xavier University FluxLab
Project: Emissions Attribution via Computational Techniques (ExACT)
Fall 2015 Round
Dalhousie University
Researcher: Robert Adamson, Daniel MacDougall, Jeremy Brown, Manohar Bance
Project: A doppler-optical coherence tomography microscope for functional middle-ear imaging
Researcher: Caitlin Pierlot, Daniel Boyd
Project: Commercialization of VIOS bone cement
Researcher: Jeff Dahn, David Stevens
Project: Low temperature thermal analysis system for lithium-ion batteries
Researcher: Lukas Swan, Chris White, Justin Deveau
Project: Method of detecting lead-acid battery formation completeness using internal resistance
Researcher: Shaun Boe, Tim Bardouille, Matt MacLellan, Denise Lalanne
Project: Promotus – Towards Movement: Translating a wearable technology for brain recovery from the lab to the customer