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Academia Sinica academician Chen Pei-jer (陳培哲), who on Monday resigned from the vaccine review committee, has been accused of working as an adviser for a Shanghai-based Chinese pharmaceutical company. Chen was allegedly listed as a “scientific adviser” on the Web site of Zhimeng Biopharma Inc (上海摯盟醫藥科技公司) in Shanghai, China, while he served as a committee member, sources said yesterday. If the claims are true, it could mean Chen had contravened the law restricting government officials and employees from undertaking concurrent jobs in China and other countries. Chen is also a professor at state-funded National Taiwan University (NTU) and a medical researcher at NTU ....
EDMONTON The Alberta government is highlighting its Budget 2021 commitment of $20 million to the Li Ka Shing Applied Virology Institute as more important than ever in the COVID pandemic context. The four-year funding renewal to the University of Alberta research centre, whose director was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, represents an opportunity for Alberta to be better prepared for future health emergencies, Premier Jason Kenney said. Canada realizes that we can never again be at the whim of other countries and the politics of different nations when it comes to vaccine security, he commented at a Thursday news conference. ....
23 Feb 2021 | Viewpoint Viewpoint: EU needs a biomedical research lab modelled on UK’s Francis Crick Institute To boost infectious disease research post-pandemic, Europe should emulate the Crick’s dual approach of running basic research in parallel with translating discoveries to treatments, says Nobel prize winner Michael Houghton Michael Houghton, 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and Li Ka Shing Professor of Virology, University of Alberta. Learning the lessons of COVID-19, the EU should modernise its approach to biomedical science, creating its own version of the London-based Francis Crick Institute to carry out and translate infectious disease research, according to virologist and Nobel laureate Michael Houghton. ....
Share this article Share this article ATLANTA, Jan. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ How can everyone have a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible? What was it like to discover hepatitis C and win the Nobel Prize in Medicine? How can we protect ourselves from unsafe injection practices? These are some of the topics discussed in Season 6 of the CDC Foundation s podcast, Contagious Conversations released today. The sixth season of Contagious Conversations features three fascinating and informative conversations with experts who are sharing their perspectives on some of the world s toughest health challenges, including tackling the barriers to health equity and systemic racism during the COVID-19 pandemic, preventing unsafe injection practices and advocating for patient safety, and exploring the discovery of hepatitis C. ....