Funded Projects (selected)

Current Projects (selected)

Genome Canada GAPP (2020-2025, $6,292,438) Next Generation Diagnostics for Clean Grapevines in Canada (Role: Academic Co-Leader)

NRC Digital Health and Geospatial Analytics Program (2022-2025, $769,681) Discovery of Single-Cell Omics Biomarkers in Alveolar Macrophages for Immunotherapy of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease    (Role: Principal Investigator)

MITACS Accelerate Cluster (2022-2026, $540,000) Cellular Phenotyping Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: From Microbes to Epithelial and Macrophages    (Role: one of two Principal Investigators) This fund provide 36 internship units at Providence Health Care. Among these intern units, 17 are given to my students.

NSERC Discovery Grant (2022-2027, $105,000) Discovery and investigation of cell type abundance biomarkers using single-cell and bulk genomic data (Role: Principal Investigator)

CIHR project grant (2020-2025, $378,676) Developing a Patient-Specific Surgical Decision-Assistance Tool to Improve Reverse Shoulder Replacement Outcomes (Role: one of three Principal Investigators)

Past Projects (selected)

NRC Digital Health and Geospatial Analytics Program (2021-2024, $690,634) Learning from big historical geospatial data on environmental impact to shellfish industry for predictive models and monitoring toolkits    (Role: Principal Investigator)

Genome BC SIP grant (2021-2022, $250,000) Endo-phenotyping of human alveolar macrophages from bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL)   (Role: Principal Investigator)

NSERC Discovery Grant (2017-2022, $95,000) Integrated analysis of time-course multi-type Next Generation Sequencing data and biomarker discovery using multiple studies (Role: Principal Investigator)

UVic Research Accelerator Fund (2021-2023, $15,000) Characterizing risk factors for COVID and Forecasting COVID infection counts    (Role: Principal Investigator)

CIHR Project Grant (2020-2023, $443,700) Childhood Obesity Management Using Innovative Digital Technology (Role: Co-Applicant)