The money will help further research into medical and societal responses to the virus, said Gail Murphy, vice-president, research and innovation.
Some of the projects include studying the use of artificial intelligence to search for SARS-CoV-2 inhibitors among known drugs, using nanoparticles to deliver antibody therapy against COVID-19, and tracking household transmission of COVID-19 in Africa.Article content continued The largest amount, $3.5 million, was awarded to UBC professor Dr. James Russell, who is working out of St. Paul’s Hospital Centre for Heart Lung Innovation and conducting a multi-site trial to study the safety and effectiveness of using losartan, a drug commonly used to treat high blood pressure and diabetes, to lower COVID-19 mortality.
ubcnews Perhaps UBC should get some funding to educate their mind control administration about freedom of speech & thought instead. We will survive Covid. We will NOT survive the authoritarianism it is helping breed & support. Ask the Iranian students how their revolution turned out.
governments and central banks are printing trillions of dollars daily to prop up stock markets and they can't find an extra trillion to put into covid research? just shows you how much of a scam this whole thing is.
why so little money? i thought this was a pandemic?
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