VIDO receives two chairs for bacteria research

The Univ of Saskatchewan’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) is receiving two new research chairs worth $4 million over five years. Funding is provided by Science and Engineering Canada (NSERC) and Bioniche Life Sciences through NSERC’s Industrial Research Chairs program, one of several programs within the Research Partnerships Program portfolio. The chairs are being established to help create new vaccines for combating food-borne bacteria that threaten human health. The senior research chair holder is Dr Andrew Potter VIDO’s associate director-research while the junior chair is held by Dr Wolfgang Koster. He joins VIDO from the Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology in Dubendorf, Switzerland….