Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the federal funding agency for health research, provided $109 million in funding to 139 research teams across the country.Grant recipients in Quebec have already started their research projects.Laval University researcher Alexis Turgeon is leading two studies into treatments for the most critically ill victims of COVID-19, thanks to a grant of $2.2 million.
Alberta COVID-19 vaccine advancing to human testing “We’re going to be studying two interventions, so we’re going to be doing two clinical trials,” Turgeon said.The first trial will study the effect of administering blood-thinning drugs to seriously ill patients in order to prevent blood clots, something which is known to have caused the.