Jeffrey Van Humbeck

Research

Adulterants Drug Poisonings Fentanyl Harm Reduction Opioid Crisis Persons Of Lived Experience Shelters Substance Use

Latest funding

Developing wastewater-based surveillance tools to understand the changing nature of population-level substance use and reduce drug poisonings
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
$1,231,649
Selective extraction of rare earth elements from Canadian resources
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$500,000
New Chemical Tools for Dynamic Multicolour Cell Imaging and Labeling
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$25,000

Developing wastewater-based surveillance tools to understand the changing nature of population-level substance use and reduce drug poisonings

Principal investigatorCIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Parkins, Michael D; Ghosh, Sumantra M; Van Humbeck, Jeffrey F

Keywords: Adulterants; Drug Poisonings; Fentanyl; Harm Reduction; Opioid Crisis; Persons Of Lived Experience; Shelters; Substance Use; Unhoused Individuals; Wastewater-Based Epidemiology

$1,231,649

Selective extraction of rare earth elements from Canadian resources

Co-investigatorNSERC2023Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Roesler, Roland R

Keywords: coordination chemistry; electrochemistry; electrolysis; lanthanides; ligand design; machine learning; metal extraction; metal separation; organic synthesis; rare earth elements

$500,000

New Chemical Tools for Dynamic Multicolour Cell Imaging and Labeling

Principal investigatorNSERC2023Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Van Humbeck, Jeffrey F

Keywords: Cell imaging; Fluorescence; Molecular recognition; Supramolecular chemistry

$25,000

Increasing the Biodegradability and Environmental Compatibility of Plastic Materials

Co-investigatorNSERC2021Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Derksen, Darren

$600,000

Design of New Catalysts and Reagents for Site-Selective Reaction of C-H Bonds

Principal investigatorNSERC2019Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: VanHumbeck, Jeffrey

$238,000

Essential Upgrade to the Departmental EPR Spectrometer

Co-investigatorNSERC2019Research Tools and Instruments

Principal investigators: Piers, Warren

$150,000

Design of New Catalysts and Reagents for Site-Selective Reaction of C-H Bonds

Principal investigatorNSERC2019Discovery Launch Supplement

Principal investigators: VanHumbeck, Jeffrey

$12,500

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Adulterants Dear Professor Van Humbeck, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on adulterants connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "Developing wastewater-based surveillance tools to understand the changing nature of population-level substance use and reduce drug poisonings" (2025), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]