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Research team at the University of Saskatchewan s VIDO-InterVac. Photo Courtesy: University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) wants Saskatchewan to become the home of Canada’s future pandemic response and it’s asking residents to help make that a reality.
A fundraising effort has been launched in order to raise $5 million of the $66-million price tag to upgrade existing facilities of VIDO-InterVac.
It would then be known as Canada’s Centre for Pandemic Research. People can donate through the organization’s website.
“We don’t have a true centre for pandemic research, but VIDO is well positioned to be this,” Ryan Thompson, chair of VIDO’s board, said on Gormley on Tuesday.
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The Government of Saskatchewan is committing $15 million of new funding to further support important pandemic research by the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) at the University of. . .