R&D Published on April 1, 2020 Understanding precisely how the virus acts on the lungs and immune system will allow us to develop the best medicine to relieve patients. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research recently provided $400,000 to a team at Laval University to study the immune response triggered by the coronavirus. Read more on Le Soleil
Business environment Published on April 1, 2020 2020 Canada Gairdner Awards Recognize World-renowned Scientists for Transformative Contributions to Research That Impact Human Health. Read more on News Wire
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Business environment Published on March 31, 2020 Widely criticized over the past 40 years, by the public as well as by the government and unions, Quebec’s health care system is currently the envy of all major Western countries. Read more on La Presse
Manufacturing Published on March 30, 2020 The Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine is contributing to the collective effort by manufacturing protective visors, which will be used, among other things, to protect doctors working on the front lines during the VIDOC-19 crisis. Read more on Journal de Montréal
Medtech Published on March 30, 2020 As the number of cases of VIDOC-19 continues to multiply in Quebec, Canada and around the world, Groupe Optel proposes a solution that would make it possible to geolocate infected individuals anonymously, to better understand their state of health and the potential for spread by city, by neighbourhood, or even by street. Read more on TVA News
Partnering Published on March 30, 2020 Several Quebec researchers are joining forces to set up the Quebec Biobank of COVID. This biobank is a Quebec-wide infrastructure whose primary objective is to make available to Quebec researchers the samples and data needed to conduct research on COVID-19 in accordance with both the ethical framework and the strict legal framework. Read more on Radio-Canada