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McGill and RI-MUHC awarded $5.1 million for infectious disease research

A new grant from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation will invest in leading-edge Containment Level 3 facilities and personnel New funding of $5.1 million from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), announced today by the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, will help researchers Marcel Behr, MD, PhD, and Silvia Vidal, PhD, ensure that Canada is better prepared for the next pandemic. This funding is part of the more than $127 million investment being made through the CFI to support upgrades to eight biocontainment facilities across the country as part of its new Biosciences Research Infrastructure Fund (BRIF) program. The investments received under the BRIF program will enable expansion of the research capacity of Containment Level 3 (CL3) laboratories at McGill and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC). These labs are equipped to study Risk Group 3 (RC3) pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2. The fu ....

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