Laboratory

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is not drawing “firm conclusions” on allegations that the novel coronavirus – which has now caused devastation worldwide – came from a lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan. … In a previous interview with Global News, Jeffrey Joy, an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia’s faculty […]

Armies of researchers around the world are working overtime to develop a vaccine for COVID-19. While it will take some time until one is available to stop the spread of the deadly and highly contagious virus, it seems as though Canadians are divided by the idea of how it could be administered. … Jeffrey Joy,

They can be heard at 7 p.m. every evening: ringing bells, clanging pots, honking horns, and blaring sirens sounding out in support of health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the workers on the frontlines are researchers at Providence Health Care who are trying to understand the virus and how to control and cure it.

More than a dozen “rapid response” research projects have been launched by Genome B.C. aimed at improving COVID-19 virus and antibody detection, and accelerating the development of treatments and vaccines. Zabrina Brumme and Christopher Lowe are heading a collaboration aimed at creating a test that will not only reveal whether or not the virus is

Project Leaders: Chanson Brumme Institutions: University of British Columbia (UBC) Budget: $76500 Competition: Rapid Response Funding for COVID-19 Research Projects Genome Centre(s): Genome British Columbia Fiscal Year: 2020 Status: Active This project will create a simple open-source software package that will help analyze viral genomic data from the COVID-19 pandemic. This tool will be created

Project Leaders: Christopher Lowe, Zabrina Brumme Institutions: Simon Fraser University (SFU) Budget: $101000 Competition: Rapid Response Funding for COVID-19 Research Projects Genome Centre(s): Genome British Columbia Fiscal Year: 2020 Status: Active There is an urgent need to quickly and accurately identify cases of COVID-19 as people with the illness need to quarantine themselves in order