Health committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. The budget mains that the members are looking at do not include the substantive investments that have just been made by the government in ongoing research, including clinical trials and research networks to support biomanufacturing. These numbers

Health committee  I can give a further clarification on that question. There are really two issues at hand here. The budget for research, in and of itself, for the CIHR to support all—

Health committee  First, there have been no cuts to the budget of CIHR. The dollars that you are specifically asking about were one-time investments for an immediate response to the pandemic, such as the measures that the minister referred to within weeks of the declaration. These were one-time in

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm pleased to respond to that question.

Health committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. In fact, the numbers that the member was referring to actually include what are called statutory dollars as well, within the $2.6 million component. Those are the dollars that were invested by this government directly into the COVID-19 response, t

Government Operations committee  I will be very brief. There is tremendous collaboration, not only across the various agencies within the government itself—NRC, ourselves, Health Canada and PHAC—as we look at each of these vaccines or approaches, but across Canada. A very integrated network of researchers is br

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

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  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  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  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  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