Researchers across Canada are tackling the COVID-19 pandemic and many are harnessing the power of Canada’s advanced research computing (ARC) platform to do so. ARC accelerates the speed to discovery and helps researchers accomplish globally competitive, data-driven, transformative research.
Research like that of Dionne Aleman, an associate professor at the University of Toronto’s faculty of applied science and engineering, who is building a pandemic model to show which actions are likely to slow the spread and by how much. A team of biochemistry specialists at the Université de Montréal and Université de Laval is working to develop a rapid test that would identify the disease in minutes, rather than the current time it takes, which is hours. Five research teams at the University of British Columbia are getting $2.3 million from the federal government to continue their work on detecting, neutralizing and reducing COVID-19’s transmission while researchers at the Montreal Heart Institute are recruiting 6,000 Canadians with COVID-19 to test the anti-inflammatory drug colchicine’s ability to reduce the risk of lung-related complications of COVID-19.
Full article at: Compute Canada Federation (also at: Calcul Québec; Compute Ontario)
Adapted at: WestGrid