MI4 is pleased to award funding for four projects in this round of the MI4-Pathy Seed Fund Grant program. We are grateful to the Pathy Family for their support to this important work.
The overarching goal of MI4 is to always bring together investigators from across the McGill community and its partners to foster interdisciplinary research. With a re-focusing of its scope in 2022, MI4 supports efforts to discover, develop and implement innovative solutions for microbial threats to human health across the lifespan.
“Since the first annual Seed Fund Grant competition, MI4 has seen the creation of 38 teams of scientists, who have never worked together before. These Seed Fund projects have resulted in new publications, new grants from the Canadian Health Institutes and other agencies, and, most importantly, new collaborations among McGill-affiliated investigators.” – Dr. Marcel Behr (MI4 Director)
The Seed Fund Grant program supports innovative approaches that align with one of the following three broad thematic areas:
- Pandemic Threats
- Antimicrobial Resistance, and
- Microbes that Shape Human Health.
The proposed research must be interdisciplinary, and the two co-PIs should represent different fields of expertise.
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