Three faculty members are the latest recipients of an Ontario Early Researcher Award, a multidisciplinary program that supports early career researchers to retain Ontario’s best and brightest talents. Sang-Tae Kim, Geography & Earth Sciences; Jose Moran-Mirabal, Chemistry & Chemical Biology; and Itay Yavin, Physics & Astronomy will each receive $140,000 to help support their growing research groups. Another major grant – more than $3.5-million – will go to the Biointerfaces Institute to support research into developing new, printable biosensors which can be used in the doctor’s office or in the field to instantly detect bacterial and respiratory infections, among other applications.

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