The team at the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation at St. Paul’s Hospital, led by Dr. Don Sin, is working with Simon Fraser University professors to develop and implement a rapid (less than 30 minutes) and cost-effective diagnostic test for COVID-19. This test is intended to complement existing protocols recommended by the World Health Organization … Continued
A St. Paul’s Hospital researcher is part of a nation-wide team that recently received federal funding to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Jim Russell, a Principal Investigator at the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, is leading a team of researchers who received $255,970 in the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Canadian 2019 Novel … Continued
On March 21, 2020, the virology laboratory at St. Paul’s Hospital started using a new high throughput, fully automated COVID-19 testing method – a first in Canada. “Testing is the key to COVID-19 diagnostics (for patient care) and surveillance (for public health),” says Dr. Marc Romney. “And high-volume testing capacity is critical in our fight … Continued