The Fields Institute, in partnership with AARMS, CRM, and PIMS, and with the collaboration of PHAC, VIDO-Intervac, and NRC will receive $666,667 for COVID-19-related research. Fields Institute Director Kumar Murty is the principal investigator on the grant funded through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Canadian 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Rapid Research Funding Opportunity.
Funding decisions were announced March 19 as part of Canada’s emergency efforts to rapidly detect, manage, and reduce the transmission of COVID-19. The grant is the result of an emergency Rapid Response Taskforce workshop held at the Fields Institute on February 14 and 15, 2020. |