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$12M for new vaccine manufacturing at USask’s VIDO-InterVac

On March 23, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that USask's VIDO-InterVac will receive $12 million to help address Canada’s shortage of vaccine manufacturing capacity, as well as $11.3 million for continued operational funding for high containment laboratories over the coming year.

VIDO-InterVac is constructing a pilot-scale manufacturing facility on campus to accelerate vaccine development in Canada and abroad.

The funding is in addition to almost $1 million over two years to develop animal models and test vaccine candidates for effectiveness and safety against the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) awarded to a USask research team and collaborating scientists from across the country previously.

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Six Signature Areas of Research

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Measuring our impact,

#1

in Research Funding increase

#1

in Water Resources Research in Canada

118

Research Chairs

6

cutting-edge Signature research areas

$216M

in Research funding in 2016

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The best minds need the best support. USask has some of the most advanced research facilities, centres, and networks in the world.

Facilities

The Canadian Light Source synchrotron, the International Vaccine Centre, and the Saskatchewan Centre for Cyclotron Sciences are some of our exceptional facilities.

Centres

With the Global Institute for Food Security and the Global Institute for Water Security and numerous other centres -- USask is changing the world.

Reaching new heights,

USask scientists and scholars are winning awards and breaking new ground in research.

Sharing our knowledge and talent with the world,

Expand your mind by expanding your horizons

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Remembering our origins,

To keep focused on the horizon, you need to be firmly rooted in the past.

And turning our ideas into solutions.

With an entrepreneurial approach, Research Excellence and Innovation turns ideas and technologies developed here into solutions for the benefit of society, industry and the environment.