COVID-19 Vaccines - Novel Approaches to Tackle a Novel Disease [Funder: MI4]
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Key facts
Disease
COVID-19Funder
Other Funders (Canada)Principal Investigator
Momar Ndao, Michael ReedResearch Location
CanadaLead Research Institution
McGill UniversityResearch Priority Alignment
N/A
Research Category
Vaccines research, development and implementation
Research Subcategory
Pre-clinical studies
Special Interest Tags
Innovation
Study Type
Non-Clinical
Clinical Trial Details
N/A
Broad Policy Alignment
Pending
Age Group
Not Applicable
Vulnerable Population
Not applicable
Occupations of Interest
Not applicable
Abstract
Thinking outside the box-and quickly-is critical if we are to generate solutions for the current COVID-19 crisis. To protect the population in the short and long-terms, infectious diseases experts Dr. Momar Ndao, Dr. Michael Reed and Dr. Martin Olivier are working to develop a COVID-19 vaccine by adapting and testing two established approaches based on the tuberculosis vaccine and adenovirus. Because both of the existing systems are approved for use in humans, developing a COVID-19 vaccine using the same principles could lead to a more rapid solution.