Several University of Saskatchewan research centres are supporting the international effort to fight COVID-19 with some of the most advanced research tools Canada has to offer.
The USask Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac), one of the worlds largest and most advanced Level 3 high-containment facilities, is on the front lines of developing a vaccine to combat the pandemic.
The centres vaccine candidate has proven highly effective in ferrets, one of the animal models VIDO-InterVac developed for COVID-19 testing. The centre hopes to move its vaccine candidate to human trials in the fall….
