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Novel ACE-I Inhibitory Peptides Derived From Limnospira platensis

Translational Medical Science

Microalgae are unicellural organisms that are found both in marine and freshwater ecosystems, ranging from tropical water habitats to subpolar areas. They have recently gained attention due…

Novel and Accessible Seed Priming Agent to Enhance Germination and Stress Resilience Under Saline Conditions

Plant Sciences

Climate change is triggering soil salinization, which limits crop production, mainly in island communities such as American Samoa. Seed priming is a proven method to boost germination under…

CWSF · 2026

Novel Application of Acoustic Beamforming for Non-Invasive Profiling of Cardiac Fibrosis

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…

Novel Auto-Leveling Footwear System for Postural Stability Support

Embedded Systems

Falls are the second leading cause of unintentional injury death worldwide, responsible for over 684,000 deaths annually. Existing solutions leave critical gaps. Preventive approaches like s…

Novel Fusion Protein Approach in Slowing Glaucoma Progression With Computational and Mathematical Modelling

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is a leading cause of irreversible blindness, characterized by progressive optic nerve damage often without symptoms until significant vision loss occurs.…

Novel Identification of Probiotic-Bacteriophage Combination Therapy for Vibrio Coralliilyticus in Aquaculture

Microbiology

An estimated $6 billion USD will be lost in 2026 globally due to disease outbreaks in aquaculture facilities, particularly from Vibrio coralliilyticus, a pathogen that infects corals, fish a…

Novel Interferometric Detection of Nitrate and Phosphate Runoff to Protect Marine Ecosystems and Rural Water Supplies

Environmental Engineering

The lack of control over nitrate and phosphate levels in soil and water is becoming one of the most serious problems facing the Baltic Sea. Eutrophication and uncontrolled nutrient runoff le…

Novel Machine Learning Model Developed to Optimize Embryo Selection for Frozen Embryo Transfer (FET) and to Calculate Appropriate Number of Embryos Recommended for Embryo Banking

Translational Medical Science

Embryo selection for Frozen Embryo Transfer (FET) is routinely based on subjective parameters. In most modern In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) labs a quantitative approach for embryo selection i…

Novel Metric Operator Theory: A Solution to a Longstanding Open Problem in Operator Theory and Quantum Mechanics

Mathematics

One of the central open problems in operator theory and PT-symmetric quantum mechanics is how to construct metric operators explicitly for non-Hermitian operators acting in spaces with an in…

Novel Multi Scale Systems Integration of a Hydrogenase Centered Universal Energy Chassis (Hcuec) for Multi Environment Biogenic Hydrogen Production and Renewable Energy Deployment

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

Hydrogen is a promising clean fuel, yet most global production still relies on fossil fuel intensive processes. Biogenic hydrogen offers a renewable alternative, but natural microbes suffer…

Novel Nudged Elastic Band (NEB) Approach for Minimum Energy Pathway Modeling in Protein Binding for Efficient Drug Discovery

Physics and Astronomy

Current drug design methods treat proteins as rigid structures, failing to capture functional high-energy states. This contributes to 40–50% of clinical-stage drug failures. Mapping continuo…

Novel Scalable Multiphase Autonomous Vehicle Systems for Emerging Markets

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics

Autonomous vehicle (AV) research has focused on structured, high-income Western environments, leaving dense, variable developing regions underexplored. This project develops three prototypes…

Novel Synergization of Lunar Chronobiology, Genotypic Stress Analysis, and CNN-LSTM Architectures for Hyper-Localized Climate-Adaptive Agricultural Planning

Software Design

Climate volatility remains a primary obstacle to global food security, subjecting 500 million subsistence farmers to catastrophic financial losses due to the disconnect between traditional p…

CYSF · 2026

NPK Eutrophication Madness

In this experiment, I am testing the effects of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium-rich fertilizers on Barley to see how its health and growth will be affected by eutrophication.

CWSF · 2026

Nutty for Colour

Curiosity & Ingenuity Silver Medal

Have you dealt with pesky squirrels raiding your bird feeder? This project tested whether the colour of an object affects how much squirrels are attracted to it, and if this is related to ho…

Observations of the Effects of Forest Structure on Avian Assemblage Using Passive Acoustic Monitoring

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Prescribed burning and mechanical thinning are forest treatments commonly used to alter forest structures for wildfire mitigation. In 2001, the National Fire and Fire-Surrogate (FSS) Study e…

CYSF · 2026

Obsticale Alert Module: ClearPath

I have made a simple yet creative solution by combining both coding and low vision to make a pair of glasses called ClearPath. These special pair of glasses beep when an object is 30cm away…

CYSF · 2026

Obtaining a High Resolution Spectrum of the Sun and comparing it to a G2V star

In this project i will be using a spectrograph to obtain a high-resolution spectrum of the Sun. After obtaining the spectrum, I will compare it to a standard reference library of star types.

CYSF · 2026

Ocean Under Pressure: Testing How Nature Fights Acidification

In the project I will be testing how quickly oceans reach their limit for absorbing carbon before they become too acidic for life.

CWSF · 2026

OcuScan: A Novel Deep Learning-Based Ocular Disease Detection System

Disease & Illness Silver Medal

Diagnosing and treating ocular diseases quickly and accurately is essential, as prolonged ocular disease not only affects patient morbidity, but can also lead to permanent eye damage. Curren…

Oil Film Position Control via Phase-controlled Water Waves Induced by a Honeycomb-Structured Oscillator

Physics and Astronomy

Purpose: Oil spills cause severe damage to marine life and ecosystems. In this research, we attempted to develop an efficient method that can control oil film movement and therefore manage o…

Omni-Prot: Unifying Protein Function Prediction With PLM-Centric Fusion

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Computational annotation of protein function remains severely constrained by the vast gap between available sequences and experimentally validated characterizations. Current methods often fa…

OncoBind: A Personalized Computational Pipeline Integrating Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics for Discovering Mutation-Specific Antibodies in HER2-Driven Cancers

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

HER2 is associated with cancer progression in breast and gastric cancer, and, while HER2-targeted antibody therapy has improved responsiveness, approximately half of patients with HER2-posit…

OncoLink: Novel Cancer Detection via Irreducible Regulatory-Metabolic Coupling Using a Topology-Aware Dual-Modality Nanobiosensor?

Translational Medical Science

Cancer remains one of the leading causes of mortality due in part to the limitations of current diagnostic methods, which often rely on single biomarkers and fail to capture the systemic bio…

OncoScan-X: Uncertainty-Aware Deep Learning System for Ovarian Cancer Subtype Diagnosis on Low-Cost Hardware

Biomedical Engineering

Ovarian cancer subtype diagnosis in current clinical practice remains challenging because it relies on expert pathologists and advanced computational infrastructure, which are often unavaila…

OncoTwin: A Multi-Modal, Treatment-Based Digital Twin for Cancer Recurrence Risk Prediction and Biomarker Discovery

Translational Medical Science

Breast cancer recurrence rates reach up to 50%, yet existing clinical tools rely on single modality data or repeated medical check-ups. My model, OncoTwin, is a novel recurrence-risk predict…

CWSF · 2026

One Drug, Three Diseases: Computational Drug Repurposing in MS, Parkinson's, and Epilepsy

Disease & Illness

Three serious neurological diseases — Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and epilepsy — affect hundreds of thousands of Canadians, and none of them have a cure. On the surface, they lo…

On Scale Dependent Velocity Fluctuations Generated by Molecular Collisions in Coarse-Grained Fluid Motion as a First Principles Basis for Stochastic Hydrodynamics and Their Implications for Navier-Stokes Smoothness Through Scale Time Limitations of Continuum Averaging

Physics and Astronomy

This project develops a first principles framework linking molecular-scale randomness to macroscopic fluid behavior through coarse-grained velocity fields. Modeling molecular collisions as a…

CWSF · 2026

On Thin Ice

Curiosity & Ingenuity Bronze Medal

Current Arctic transportation options are generally unreliable as they mainly rely on costly infrastructure or are susceptible to environmental conditions. The thrust cushion vehicle (TCV) s…

CYSF · 2026

Operation Oracle - Eyes of The Future Pt.2

An integrated diagnostic approach combining audio processing, microwave imaging, and deep learning for early, non-invasive detection of lung and skin cancer.