COVID-19 research projects.The grants are through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and their funding partners and are in addition to $9 million in COVID-19-related research announced earlier this month and supported by the federal and provincial governments, foundations, private companies and philanthropists.
Canadian research team isolates novel coronavirus behind COVID-19 Jonathan Bramson, vice-dean of research for the faculty of health sciences, says the funded research spans a range of themes from the development of diagnostics and therapeutics to an investigation of long-term consequences of the pandemic on well-being and mental health.“This phenomenal success is yet another example of McMaster’s excellence in health.