To strengthen the environment for patient-oriented research in Canada, Treasury Board President Jean-Yves Duclos (Québec, Que.) announced a new investment of $5.25 million over six years. The funding is being provided under Canada’s Strategy’s for Patient-Oriented Research and will support a new national training platform based at the Université Laval that will focus on enhancing … Read more
Health Minister Patty Hajdu (Thunder Bay-Superior North, Ont.) announced an investment of $14.3 million from the Government of Canada, through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, to support new research on the COVID-19 virus variants. This includes $5.3 million in supplementary funding for 90 ongoing COVID-19 projects and $9 million for a new national network … Read more
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health Jennifer O’Connell (Pickering-Uxbridge, Ont.) announced a joint initiative between the Government of Canada and the Netherlands that aims to accelerate research to prevent diabetes and to improve the quality of life for individuals with T2D. The new Netherland-Canada Type 2 Diabetes Research Consortium is supported with funding from Canadian … Read more
Health Minister Patty Hajdu (Thunder Bay-Superior North, Ont.) announced an investment of approximately $25.2 million in 52 research projects to further improve our understanding of COVID-19 and tackle persistent evidence gaps linked to this disease. Led by researchers across the country, the new COVID-19 projects will focus on topics such as variants of the virus, vaccine … Read more
Health Minister Patty Hajdu (Thunder Bay-Superior North, Ont.) and Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne (Saint-Maurice–Champlain, Que.) announced an investment of $3.34 million in research to understand the health impacts of extended periods of inactivity and the effectiveness of preventative measures to mitigate the impact of inactivity on our health. This investment will support eight teams … Read more
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research announced an upcoming new funding opportunity in partnership with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, a world leader in identifying and supporting preparedness activities that enable a rapid research response in vaccine development. The Leadership Award for Excellence in Vaccine Research for Infectious Diseases of Epidemic funding opportunity will provide … Read more
Liberal MP Larry Bagnell (Yukon) and Pauline Frost, Yukon’s Minister of Health, announced a combined investment of $10.4 million in funding and in-kind contributions to establish a Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research Support for People and Patient-Oriented Research and Trials Unit in the Yukon. The full release is available online. Call 613-957-0200.
Health Minister Patty Hajdu (Thunder Bay-Superior North, Ont.) announced an investment of $6 million in the Canadian Network of COVID-19 Clinical Trials Networks. This investment will expand existing national and international clinical trial networks to coordinate research on tools that prevent, detect, manage, and treat COVID-19. The full release is available online. Call 613-957-0200.
Health Minister Patty Hajdu (Thunder Bay-Superior North, Ont.) and Minister of Seniors Deb Schulte (King-Vaughan, Ont.) announced an additional investment of more than $1.8 million to fund 14 Implementation Science Teams of researchers from across Canada. The research teams will partners with LTC and retirement homes to study the effectiveness of promising practices, interventions, and policy options designed to keep the … Read more
To mark the end of Diabetes Awareness Month, Liberal MP Sonia Sidhu (Brampton South, Ont.) announced an investment of $6 million through the CIHR-JDRF Partnership to Defeat Diabetes for two Canadian research teams to accelerate the development of stem cell-based therapies for the treatment of T1D. The research teams are led by Dr. Maria Cristina Nostro … Read more
