Queen’s School of Computing researcher Amber Simpson is part of a larger multi-institute team lead by University of Toronto to receive $19 Million Federal Funding for BioHubNet.
Biomanufacturing Hub Network (BioHubNet) is a talent development program among four research programs in the Canadian Hub for Health Intelligence and Innovation in Infectious Diseases (HI3) that has received a total of $72 million in federal funding. This major investment from the Canada Biomedical Research Fund (CBRF) was announced on May 6, 2024 to address the severe shortage of industry-ready highly qualified personnel (HQP) in the biomanufacturing sector.
BioHubNet is a collaborative research project, comprised by a scientific team of researchers from leading Canadian Universities and hospitals.
These researchers will leverage their 26 industry and training partners, which include multinational and homegrown biotechnology companies. With nearly $19 million from CBRF, BioHubNet will work closely with these partners to develop a range of training programs that provide experiential and topical training to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and biotechnology professionals.
According to the Government of Canada, these CBRF-BRIF investments are aimed at “growing a robust, competitive, domestic biomanufacturing and life sciences sector ensures that Canada has access to critical vaccines, therapeutics and other life-saving medicines.”