Department of Veterinary Microbiology, WCVM, University of Saskatchewan
52 Campus Drive S7N 5B4 Saskatoon, SK, Canada

VIDO-InterVac is featured in a CBC story about the COVID-19 vaccines being developed in Canada. Vet Micro faculty member, Dr. Volker Gerdts, is Director and CEO of VIDO-InterVac, and some of our other faculty and students are working on the project. A picture of Vet Micro PhD student, Swarali Kulkarni, is featured in the article! Find the full story here: https://www.cbc.ca//canadian-vaccine-candidates-covid-coro

VIDO-InterVac has been award $830,000 from the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator to aid their research in determining the effectiveness of antiviral compounds against COVID-19. Find the full story here: https://news.usask.ca//usask-vido-intervac-expands-interna

Congratulations to Vet Micro PhD Student Adrián Hernández Ortiz who has just been named as the recipient of this year's WCVM Boehringer Ingelheim Scholarship! This scholarship rewards a demonstrated proficiency is research relating to the biology of animal parasite control products or host-pathogen relationships. Way to go Adrián!

Congratulations to Vet Micro Summer Student Kylie Cousins, who won 2nd Place in the Microbiology category of the WCVM Undergraduate Digital Poster competition! Kylie, a member of the WCVM Class of 2022, was supervised this summer by Dr. Emily Jenkins, and studied Lyme Disease and ticks. The Jenkins and Voordouw labs in Vet Micro were extremely busy with tick identification this summer, as the public health lab, which normally assists in this work, was busy with COVID-19 testing. Well done Kylie!!