Health committee  I'd be happy to respond to that. Over the last five years, the CIHR has invested approximately $105 million in transplantation research. It is a key area of research for us as we move forward and the relationship with the donor transplant research program. It's $3.3 million goi

Health committee  I appreciate this opportunity. Thank you very much for inviting me to speak about the importance of research and the pivotal role of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in Canada's response to COVID-19. Before we begin, I want to express my sincere appreciation and grati

Health committee  Thank you very much to the honourable member. That is an excellent question. Right off the top, one of the initiatives that we've been doing throughout the course of all this has been a highly integrated approach across various ministries to deal with this, specifically in work

Health committee  That's an initiative that received considerable funding over the course of years to develop that technique, and they were able to rapidly tool it forward. Particularly as we start to talk about this issue of how to reopen the communities after we come through this first wave, the

Health committee  I thank the hon. member for the question. It's indeed quite timely. We've already begun the process of which he speaks. It is quite accurate that it would be nice to have the first one over the line. I don't care what horse it is, but we want to make sure that everybody is push

Health committee  Thank you very much for the question. It's an important one. It's actually a worldwide question as well, because there are over 400 different studies going on in the world right now, looking at a whole variety of things. Let's take your example of a protease inhibitor. If it is

Health committee  What was cancelled was the spring project competition. There are two a year, one in the fall and one in the spring. When that decision was made, several things were intersecting with each other. The first one was that we were in the beginnings of what we knew would have to be a g

Health committee  The answer is correct that the majority of our funding is through the project competition, but we use an encumbrance system so that the funding that would have been available to use in this specific competition, around $240 million of it, was already encumbered in research that i

Health committee  Thank you very much to the honourable member for the question. I'm very happy to do that. There are 99 projects that have been funded across this country specifically for research on COVID-19. They can be broken down into a couple of categories. The major one is really medical in

Health committee  Thank you very much for that. The solidarity research project is an international consortium of countries to do research looking at promising therapeutic agents for the COVID virus, some of the very early ones being tracked. Canada is actually an international leader in that and

Health committee  Again, that's a very good question. Thank you for that. It has been absolutely amazing to watch as our colleagues begin to look at how they can retool their research programs to ask questions and to be of assistance to us on everything from innovative clinical responses and tri

Health committee  Thank you very much for the question. It is a critical one for all of us as researchers. We have been working intensively over the course of the last several weeks, even before we did the April 2 announcement, to look at what mitigating strategies would be required to assist la

Health committee  You're absolutely correct. The single worst thing that we can do is a bunch of small, underpowered studies that will not allow us to answer the questions you're raising. One focus we are working on now intensively with Health Canada as well as across our partner groups is to en

Health committee  Mr. Chair, thank you for having me before the committee once again to speak about the continued importance of research and the ongoing role of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in Canada's response to COVID-19. Before we begin, I want to reiterate my sincere appreciatio

Health committee  There are two aspects to that. First, through the original initiative of the rapid response, we do provide funding through to researchers at Dalhousie who are participating in this. Second, we've been very involved, working with our colleagues at ISED, NRC, Health Canada and PHAC