AICE Concepts – 2021 Recipients

The Accelerating Innovations into CarE (AICE) – Concepts Program is designed to enable and accelerate early-stage innovators along the commercialization client journey from ideating to conceptualizing across four domains of commercialization. The first stream addresses three priority areas within precision health. The table below contains details of eleven leading Alberta-based researchers and their projects. The projects in concert aim to optimize clinical decisions and maximize health benefits by accelerating the commercialization of health technologies. Total value for all eleven projects is ~ $11 million with ~ $5.7 million (51%) contributed from Alberta Innovates. Projects will run from March 2021 to June 2024.

Project at a Glance

Funding Recipient: 11 projects
Funding Awarded: $5,700,000
Project Duration: March 2021 to June 2024
Sector: Health & Life Sciences
Program: Accelerating Innovations into CarE (AICE) – Concepts
Lead Applicant  Project Title  Contact 
Cathy Lu, MD, UCalgary Proteomic Biomarkers and Intestinal Ultrasound; Innovative Tools to Differentiate Fibrostenotic from Inflammatory Crohn’s Disease Website
Dominic Sauvageau, PhD, UAlberta Mediation of gut microbiomes with ghost phages as alternatives to antibiotics Website
Gerald Zamponi, PhD, UCalgary A new therapeutic target for precision treatment of chronic pain Website
John Lewis, PhD, UAlberta Personalized Cancer Vaccines using the Fusogenix Genetic Medicines Platform Website
Kumaradevan Punithakumar, PhD, UAlberta Advancing Cardiac Disease Diagnosis with Robotic Multiview Echocardiography Fusion and Machine Learning Website
Marie-Claire Arrieta, PhD, UCalgary BiomeBLOOM – Digital bedside technology to detect healthy microbiome maturation in premature infants Website
Peter Salat, MD, UCalgary Opportunistic Screening of Subject-Specific Fracture Risk Website
Roger Zemp, PhD, UAlberta Next Generation Ultrafast 3D Ultrasound Array Technology for Automated Cardiovascular Screening Website
Shabir Barzanjeh PhD, UCalgary Quantum Scanner for Biomedical Diagnostics Website
Steven Greenway, MD, UCalgary Aorta-specific methylation patterns in cell-free DNA for the non-invasive diagnosis of aortopathy in humans Website
Yunyan Zhang, MD, PhD, UCalgary A novel machine learning framework for optimizing personalized treatment decisions in multiple sclerosis Website