The Li Lab The Li Lab - Home McMaster University

Grants

...funding for our research (last 6 years)

2011 (1 awarded)

40.
Type: Training
Source agency: Collaborative Research and Training Experience program (CREATE)
Amount: $1,650,000 (total award; 2011-2017)
Purpose: The project aims to provide unique training to graduate students, undergraduates and postdoctoral fellows in the development, characterization and application of bioactive and stealth biointerfaces for ophthalmic biomaterials and biosensor coatings.
Title: CREATE Biointerfaces Training Program
Awarded to: John Brennan, Yingfu Li and 8 others

2010 (4 awarded)

39.
Source agency: NSERC
Amount: $7,500,000 (total award; 2010-2015)
Title: Sentinel Network – Phase II (Canadian Network for the Development and Use of Bioactive Paper)
Awarded to: Robert Pelton, Yingfu Li and 22 others
38.
Source agency: Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Amount: $299,992 (total award; 2010-2013)
Title: Aptamer sensors for food-borne pathogens
Awarded to: Yingfu Li
37.
Source agency: NSERC (Discovery Accelerator)
Amount: $120,000 (total award; 2010-2013)
Title: Functional nucleic acids as catalysts and molecular recognition elements
Awarded to: Yingfu Li
36.
Source agency: NSERC Forest Sector R&D Initiative - extension
Amount: $165,500 (total award; 2010-2011; 1 year)
Title: Development of aptamer-based bioactive paper for food-borne bacterial pathogen detection
Awarded to: Yingfu Li

2009 (8 awarded)

35.
Source agency: CIHR (Research Tools)
Amount: $292,815 (total award; 2009-2012; 3 years)
Title: Catalytic DNA for protein sensing
Awarded to: Yingfu Li and Tony Collins
34.
Source agency: CFI
Amount: $19,560,541 (total award)
Title: Biointerfaces Institute
Awarded to: John Brennan, John Brash, Michael Brook, Alfredo Capretta, Cecile Fradin, Raja Ghosh, Yingfu Li, Giuseppe Melacini, Robert Pelton, and Heather Sheardown
33.
Source agency: CIHR
Amount: $616,690 (total award; 2009-2014; 5 years)
Title: Developing RNA-cleaving DNAzymes as Molecular Tools for Cancer Study and as Cancer Therapeutics
Awarded to: Yingfu Li
32.
Source agency: NSERC
Amount: $422,500 (total award; 2009-2014)
Title: Functional nucleic acids as catalysts and molecular recognition elements
Awarded to: Yingfu Li
31.
Type: Operating
Source agency: NSERC C4 POP
Amount: $10,000 (total award; 2009; 1 year)
Purpose: To develop signaling DNAzyme based sensors for pathogenic bacteria
Title: Fluorescent DNAzymes as novel sensors for pathogenic bacteria
Awarded to: Yingfu Li
30.
Source agency: CIHR
Amount: $89,919 (total award; 2009; 1 year)
Title: Developing RNA-cleaving DNAzymes as Molecular Tools for Cancer Study and as Cancer Therapeutics
Awarded to: Yingfu Li
29.
Source agency: NSERC Forest Sector R&D Initiative
Amount: $165,500 (total award; 2009-2010; 1 year)
Title: Development of aptamer-based bioactive paper for food-borne bacterial pathogen detection
Awarded to: Yingfu Li
28.
Source agency: Spectral Diagnostics
Amount: $30,000 (total award; 2009; 1 year)
Title: Aptamers for bacterial toxins
Awarded to: Yingfu Li

2008 (2 awarded)

27.
Source agency: CHDI Foundation
Amount: $65,758 (total award; 2008-2009)
Title: Development and Evaluation of RNA-cleaving DNAzymes that can specifically degrade mutant Huntingtin mRNAs
Awarded to: Yingfu Li and Ray Truant
26.
Source agency: Spectral Diagnostics
Amount: $40,000 (total award; 2008-2009; 1 year)
Title: Aptamers for bacterial toxins
Awarded to: Yingfu Li

2007 (2 awarded)

25.
Source agency: NSERC Strategic Project
Amount: $473,589 (total award; 2007-2010)
Title: Functional DNA Based Bioassays and Biosensors for the Detection of Pathogenic Bacteria in the Health Sector and Food Industry
Awarded to: Yingfu Li, John Brennan and Chang-qing Xu
24.
Source agency: CIPI Technology Exploitation and Networking Program
Amount: $30,000 (total award; 2007-2008)
Title: Label-free Fibber Optic Biosensor for Bacterial (E. coli) Detection
Awarded to: Chang-qing Xu and Yingfu Li

2006 (1 awarded)

23.
Source agency: CFI (Canada Foundation of Innovation)/Innovation Fund
Amount: $19,560,070 (total award; 2006)
Title: Centre for Microbial Chemical Biology
Awarded to: Gerard Wright, Christian Baron, John Brennan, Eric Brown, Alfredo Capretta, Yingfu Li, Brain McCarry, James McNulty, Justin Nodwell, Lesley Warren

2005 (1 awarded)

22.
Source agency: NSERC
Amount: $7,500,000 (total award; 2005-2010)
Title: Canadian Network for the Development and Use of Bioactive Paper
Awarded to: Robert Pelton, Yingfu Li and 22 others

2004 (5 awarded)

21.
Source agency: Genome Canada
Amount: $8,462,065 (total award; 2004-2007)
Title: Mass Spectrometer-based Flow Cytometer, Methods and Applications
Awarded to: John Dick, Scott Tanner, Yingfu Li, Mark Minden
20.
Source agency: NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada)/Discovery Program
Amount: $196,700 (total award; 2004-2009)
Title: DNA aptamers and DNA enzymes as molecular recognition elements
Awarded to: Yingfu Li
19.
Source agency: McMaster University
Amount: $85,000 (total award; 2004-2005)
Title: Developing aptamers as antidotes for antithrombotic drugs
Awarded to: Yingfu Li and Jeff Weitz
18.
Source agency: Government of Ontario/Premier's Research Excellence Award Program
Amount: $150,000 (total award; 2004-2009)
Title: Studying DNA aptamers as bioanalytical tools
Awarded to: Yingfu Li
17.
Source agency: CFI (Canada Foundation of Innovation)/Innovation Fund
Amount: $10,957,883 (total award; 2004-2005)
Title: Centre for Functional Genomics and Chemical Genetics
Awarded to: David W. Andrews, Eric Brown, Cecile Fradin, John Hassell, Yingfu Li, Justin Nodwell, Ray Trunat, Jeff Weitz, Gerard Wright
^Back to top