Cannabinoid Formulation for Consumer Beverages

这个为期五年、耗资210万美元的项目是Peak Processing Solutions和温莎大学Trant研究实验室之间现有合作的延续，该合作由NSERC和MITACS共同支持。Peak Processing Solutions是一家大麻加工商，旨在生产新的消费产品系列，将原材料提升为国内和国际市场上更高价值的产品。Trant研究实验室是一个专注于药物设计和药物递送的生物医学研究实验室。大麻在加拿大是一个增长型产业，加拿大大麻的质量在国际上受到高度评价，这意味着加拿大已迅速成为全球领先的药用大麻生产国。然而，随着越来越多的国家将大麻合法化，为了保持这种经济优势，加拿大必须成为创新的领导者，因为我们无法在农业上与气候更适合种植大麻的国家竞争；我们需要在开发更高价值的产品方面发挥领导作用。大麻产品开发的主要挑战之一是大麻素不溶于水。这意味着要将它们放入各种产品中，必须配制它们，但这需要稳定的配方，并能随着时间的推移保持其效力。然而，每种不同的应用都需要不同的配方，因为它们对环境的性质非常敏感。对可乐有效的配方并不适用于果汁、水或啤酒。这意味着需要一个公式库。除了为含大麻产品提供解决方案外，该项目还将产生足够的数据，以提高我们对各种配方形式的理解，以及它们的物理化学如何受到其生成所涉及的参数的影响。该项目将在五年的资助期内支持20多名本科生、研究生和博士后，并继续吸引世界上一些最优秀的科学家到加拿大。

This five-year, 2.1-million-dollar project is a continuation of an existing collaboration between Peak Processing Solutions and the Trant research lab at the University of Windsor jointly supported by NSERC and MITACS. Peak Processing Solutions is a cannabis processor that seeks to generate new lines of consumer products, upvaluing raw material into higher value products for both the domestic and international market. The Trant research lab is a biomedical research lab focusing on drug design and drug delivery.Cannabis is a growth industry in Canada, and the quality of Canadian cannabis is highly regarded internationally meaning Canada has rapidly attained a role as the leading global producer of medicinal cannabis. However, as more countries legalize cannabis, to maintain this economic advantage, Canada must become a leader in innovation as we cannot compete agriculturally with countries with climates better suited to cultivating cannabis; we need to lead in developing higher value products. One of the major challenges in cannabis product development is that cannabinoids are not soluble in water. This means that to put them into various products, they must be formulated, but this requires stable formulations that also maintain their potency over time. However, every different application requires a different formulation as they are very sensitive to the nature of the environment. A formulation that works for a cola doesn't work for juice, or water, or a beer. This means that a library of formulations is needed. Besides delivering solutions for cannabis-containing products, this project will also generate sufficient data to improve our understanding of various formulation forms and how their physical chemistry is affected by the parameters involved in their generation. This project will support more than 20 different trainees, at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral level over the five years of the grant, and continue to attract some of the best scientists around the world to Canada.