##  [APSC researchers receive New Frontiers in Research funding](/news/2019/apsc-researchers-receive-new-frontiers-in-research-funding) 

   Posted May 15, 2019 

 

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Four APSC professors — **Mattia Bacca**, **Jordi Honey-Roses**, **Carlos Molina Hutt** and **Lyndia Wu** — have received funding through the "Exploration" stream of the Government of Canada's **[New Frontiers in Research Fund](http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/nfrf-fnfr/index-eng.aspx)**, which supports early-career researchers pursuing innovative projects that are high risk and high reward.

Comprised of three streams (Exploration, Transformation and International), the new funding initiative aims "to invest $275 million over the next five years beginning in fiscal 2018-19, and $65 million ongoing, to fund international, interdisciplinary, fast-breaking and high-risk research."

The funding was announced at Laurentian University earlier this week by the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport. The initial investment of $38 million will support the exploratory work of 157 researchers across Canada who have five years or less of experience since their first academic appointment.

The APSC recipients' projects are:

- Mattia Bacca, "The Energetics of Life: a new perspective in Cytoskeletal Mechanics" ($250,000)
- Jordi Honey-Rosés, "The UBC Housing and Well-Being Project" ($248,950)
- Carlos Molina Hutt, "Reducing the catastrophic risk of a Cascadia megathrust earthquake" ($250,000)
- Lyndia (Chun) Wu, "Investigating Brain Trauma Accumulation from Subconcussive Head Impacts and Differences between Male and Female Ice Hockey Players" ($250,000)

See the [full list](https://research.ubc.ca/ubc-early-career-researchers-receive-support-new-frontiers-research-fund) of UBC recipients of NFRD funding. Read the [official release](http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/news_room-salle_de_presse/press_releases-communiques/2019/goc_invests_in_the_innovative_ideas_of_early_career_researchers-goc_investit_dans_les_idees_novatrices_des_chercheurs_en_debut_de_carriere-eng.aspx) from Government of Canada.