Episode 42: Engineering a Canadian treatment for Covid19 – The value created by public research

In this episode we interview Dr. Shane Miersch, a University of Toronto researcher who is part of a team developing a treatment for Covid19. We discuss the vital but often unrecognized and unrecouped value of basic and applied research done in our public post-secondary institutions and how a Canadian treatment for Covid19 goes from the lab to patients.

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For a more detailed outline of Dr. Miersch’s work see this video podcast recorded on April 11, 2020.