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University of Guelph’s COVID-19 vaccine research receives $230,000

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The University of Guelph says its researchers have received $230,000 from the Ontario government to develop a possible COVID-19 vaccine.

Pathobiology professor Byram Bridle believes the university’s work will be a leading candidate among the roughly 120 Canadian projects currently racing to come up with a vaccine amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Bridle said the Guelph team has shifted their focus away from vaccines as cancer therapies. “We have been focused on cancer for years, but this collaboration shows the flexibility of technology we have at Guelph,” he said. “We can rapidly apply cancer technology and move it over to infectious disease.” By adapting vaccine research used in cancer therapies, a team of a dozen #UofG researchers led by

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