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CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Gold Medal
Nearly 50% of IVF embryos arrest before they become viable pregnancies, and the molecular mechanisms causing this failure remain poorly understood. The Digital Embryo is the first multi-omic…
CWSF · 2026
Natural Resources Gold Medal
Much of the ocean remains unmonitored, allowing harmful human activities such as illegal fishing to drive marine ecosystem collapse. To address this, an autonomous, sail-powered trimaran was…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Gold Medal
Anorexia Nervosa is a severe psychiatric disorder that primarily impacts teenage girls. This condition is especially challenging due to the lack of concrete biomarkers, such as structural ch…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Platinum Award
Sepsis claims 11 million lives annually, but current diagnostics are costly and often ineffective. Aptamers are single-stranded DNA or RNA sequences that are promising for detecting proteomi…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Gold Medal
This project explores how a wearable tail could help seniors with Parkinson’s disease maintain balance, reducing their risk of falls. Using built-in sensors to detect when they are unstable,…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace Platinum Award
About 55% of the estimated 25,000 near-Earth-asteroids 140 metres or larger remain undetected, with millions more in the main belt uncatalogued. The 2013 Chelyabinsk event, where a 19-metre…
CWSF · 2026
Agriculture, Fisheries & Food Gold Medal
The plastic mulch film, a plastic sheet applied to agricultural soils, increases crop yield through its benefits such as moisture retention and weed suppression. However, due to their potent…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace Gold Medal
Inspired by the discovery of elemental sulfur on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity Rover, my research determines whether the presence of reduced sulfur (sulfur with extra electrons) can indicate life…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Gold Medal
By 2052, one quarter of the population will be over the age of 65, with adults over 85 the fastest growing segment. Supporting older adults to age well is a national priority. This project e…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Gold Medal
My project focused on the embryonic development of the cerebellum. Little is known about how the cerebellum is formed during early embryonic development, and how its neural pathways are form…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Gold Medal
Antibiotic resistance is one of the most urgent crises in global health, and the first step in fighting it is correctly identifying whether a bacterium is Gram-positive or Gram-negative — a…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Gold Medal
2.3 million women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year, world wide. One of the main tools to decide the treatment is tumor grade, or aggressiveness of the cancer cells. Yet, the patho…
CWSF · 2026
Agriculture, Fisheries & Food Gold Medal
The hazelnut industry faces severe threats from the hazelnut weevil (Curculio nucum), with infestations affecting up to 80% of yields. Relying on pesticides is environmentally unsustainable,…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Platinum Award
When my father was hospitalized, overworked staff struggled to check his vitals regularly. That experience led me to remote heart-rate monitoring, then to a deeper problem: optical heart-rat…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Gold Medal
Microplastics (MPs), are emerging as a significant environmental and health pollutant of increasing global concern. MPs, defined as tiny water-insoluble plastic particles less than 5mm in si…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Gold Medal
Conventional chemotherapy often fails due to systemic toxicity and acquired drug resistance. To address this, I developed a multi-targeted therapeutic matrix using synergistic phytochemicals…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Platinum Award
Over 98% of potential therapeutics for neurological diseases fail because they cannot cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Current screening methods for novel ligands often focus too heavily…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace Gold Medal
The nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the biggest unanswered questions in physics, all while current methods remain challenged with accurately distinguishing between different DM mod…
CWSF · 2026
Curiosity & Ingenuity Platinum Award
Fungal pathogens pose an enormous threat to global health, and a growing number of pathogens are developing resistance to our limited arsenal of antifungals. Overexpression of efflux pumps t…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Gold Medal
Iron deficiency affects over 2 billion people, but current treatments are limited by gastrointestinal side effects, slow response, adherence challenges or are expensive. Micro-needles consis…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Gold Medal
Labrador tea is a common northern herbal medicine used Indigenous communities to maintain overall health. This study aimed at investigating whether polyphenolic compounds found in Labrador t…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Gold Medal
Needle injections can be painful because they deform the skin, especially when larger needles are needed to deliver viscous fluids. In this project, a patented needle design that requires 57…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Gold Medal
Heart disease currently affects roughly 6 million Canadians, with emerging research indicating that up to one-third of individuals with underlying cardiometabolic conditions will develop myo…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Gold Medal
Many people struggle to take medications correctly, leading to missed doses and potential hospitalizations. Existing pill dispensers require someone to read each label, hand-load pills into…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Gold Medal
My project is about building a wearable device that can detect signs of silent aspiration, a condition where food or liquid enters the airway without causing a cough. This is important becau…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Gold Medal
1 out of 4 patients die within 3 months of a bloodstream infection from Staphylococcus aureus (S.aureus) [1]. Currently, both first-line and even last-resort antibiotics are mainly ineffecti…
CWSF · 2026
Agriculture, Fisheries & Food Gold Medal
Food waste is a major issue in Canada, with much of it happening at the household level due to confusion about best-before dates. Many people throw away food that is still usable or rely on…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Gold Medal
Many patients are injured when IV fluids accidentally leak into their skin instead of staying in the vein. This causes painful swelling and bruising, and it happens to nearly 1 in 10 people.…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Gold Medal
Alzheimer's disease steals the memories of 55+ million worldwide, yet no effective diagnosis or treatment exists. The retina is composed of neural tissue, thus mirroring neurological damage…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace Platinum Award
Even after nearly three decades of intense research, cosmology fails to fully explain the physical origin of the universe's accelerated expansion. The standard model of cosmology, ΛCDM, asso…