Ten million people — equivalent to approximately one-quarter of the Canadian population — are expected to die annually due to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) worldwide by 2050. Researchers in Dr. Manish Sadarangani’s lab at the Vaccine Evaluation Center at BC Children’s argue that targeted vaccines are needed to help reduce such loss of life.
Today (April 26, 2023), as part of National Immunization Awareness Week, the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Canada’s minister of health, and the Honourable Harjit S. Sajjan, Minister of International Development and Minister responsible for the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada, announced a new partnership between the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Coalition…
Several BC Children’s Hospital researchers, along with research colleagues across the PHSA, are part of a team that has been awarded a $4.9 million grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s (CIHR) Clinical Trials Fund to create educational and mentoring opportunities for doctoral, postdoctoral and early career researchers and clinicians.
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