2020

Caring contacts: a compassionate grassroots response to COVID-19 that is based on science The Globe and Mail “Zena Samaan, a psychiatrist and suicide researcher at McMaster University who has been running a small pilot that […]

‘Cough chamber’ shows 2 metres of physical distancing not enough: Western University researchers Globalnews.ca “Research for the study took place inside the Western University mechanical and materials engineering department’s “cough chamber” during the …” TAGS: COVID-19, public […]

All non-COVID19 research and clinical trials at hospitals suspended or cancelled due to funding crunch The Star “Leaders at Canada’s biggest hospitals have written an urgent plea to the prime minister to extend the federal […]

Carleton Researchers Developing Tools to Identify and Manage COVID-19 Carleton Newsroom (press release) “AGE-WELL’s SAM3 National Innovation Hub, a joint initiative with Carleton and Ottawa’s Bruyère Research Institute, uses “sensors and analytics for …” TAGS: […]

Sinai Health researchers develop robotic system to survey for widespread exposure to COVID-19 The Globe and Mail “With demand growing for blood tests that can reveal who may have already been exposed to the COVID-19 […]

Layoffs, lost funding and how COVID-19 may permanently hurt London’s medical-research sector The London Free Press “… a near-complete reduction of its hospital-based lab research and a 65 per cent shutdown of its clinical studies, […]

Here Are The Canadian Organizations In The Race To A COVID-19 Vaccine HuffPost Canada “In this publicity photo from the University of Saskatchewan, researchers at VIDO-InterVac work. Gord Waldner/University of Saskatchewan In this …” TAGS: […]

A Message from the Parliamentary Health Research Caucus to Research Canada’s Members, Supporters and Partners HRI Portal “We want to thank you for your dedication and commitment and, although we miss seeing you on the […]

With clinical trials halted, funding drop, UHN fears layoffs among researchers working on COVID-19 iPolitics “Inside Canada’s top research hospital, more than 40 COVID-19 research projects are underway. Therapeutic trials are testing the impacts of […]

The parking lot hand-off that could mean ‘millions of masks’ for people fighting COVID-19 CBC.ca “McMaster’s ‘sweet spot’. Preston said the university is looking for two things in a manufacturing partner — the ability to […]