Congratulations to Drs. Zelig Eshhar and Michel Sadelain, recipients of the 2024 Canada Gairdner International Award!

Congratulations to the 2024 Canada Gairdner Award laureates! This year’s laureates represent some of the world’s most significant biomedical and global health research & discoveries.

Find more about these incredible scientists and their award-winning research here:…

This is so well deserved. Congratulations Dr. Allison McGeer. 👏🏾

Amazing bats! A great Ted-ED animation explaining how bats cope with infections that we cannot and how bat physiology my give us insight on how cells age. Lesson by Arinjay Banerjee (a Canadian professor from Saskatoon!) #AppreciateBats
youtu.be/XiBXhCr_Jpw?si…

Today at 10 AM ET we are hosting a virtual event to announce the 2024 Canada #GairdnerAwards Laureates!

The Gairdner Foundation is proudly supported by The Government of Canada and CIHR

Tune in here to watch the announcement live: gairdner2024.virtualvenue.ca

Delighted to host Dr. Stephanie DeWitte-Orr from Wilfrid Laurier University for an exciting seminar on dsRNA signaling and translational application for therapies. What a week, and it’s only Wednesday! #LZCI VIDO University of Saskatchewan Research

Fabulous knowledge translation seminar by Drs. Kim Chiok and Nuraina Anisa on organoids and bioprinted respiratory models to study highly pathogenic microbes. #LZCI
SHRF VIDO U of Saskatchewan University of Saskatchewan Research

There is still time to register for the Canadian Society for Virology's symposium (June 2-5). Canadian Society for Virology

Register using the link below:
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Congrats Yan Sun on this great @mBio minireview on defective viral genomes and their roles during infections!

For more context: The team found #SARS -CoV-2 proteins indicative of viral persistence in 25% of people up to 14 months after #COVID . They controlled for vaccination + reinfection. There were very few false positives in the pre-pandemic samples, confirming accuracy of the methods

Plasma-based antigen persistence in the post-acute phase of COVID-19 - The Lancet Infectious Diseases. thelancet.com/journals/lanin…

The translational potential of studying bat immunity. cell.com/trends/immunol…

To stop #spillover from wildlife to domestic animals, we need to know the distributions &densities of animals at risk
Horses are the spillover host for the fatal zoonosis Hendra virus, but Belinda Linnegar’s new paper shows that horse populations are hugely underestimated
#OneHealth

During the total solar eclipse this afternoon, temporary darkness will sweep across many cities and towns in Canada.

So long, NIF 2024! A heartfelt thanks to our amazing speakers, panelists, organizers & attendees who made our forum a great success. On behalf of CIHR-III, we hope you enjoyed the insightful discussions, gained valuable knowledge & left feeling inspired!
#OurFutureOurIIINIF

It’s a beautiful Spring morning U of Saskatchewan and City of Saskatoon.

Some years ago B.R. Ansil walked into my lab National Centre for Biological Sciences wanting to work on disease ecology. Always obsessed with rodents, bats and pathogens! Congratulations on this postdoc fellowship from HFSP to work with
danjbecker and Arinjay Banerjee. Excited to see what you find!

Submit an abstract for the research presentation competition or a paper for the Best Paper Award! Nominate a supervisor for the Best Supervisor Awards!

#USask 's 2024 Life & Health Sciences Research Expo returns May 2.

healthsciences.usask.ca/expo

#USask Research #USask Health

We’ve reached that point in the week where we would all benefit from seeing some baby bats eating bananas

Meet our virology editor Julie Tai-Schmiedel Keystone Symposia HIV and (Re)Emerging Viruses: Aligning Lessons Across Pandemics next week in Hannover!