Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation

2003-2004 Research Group Facilitation Grants

Title

Immunology Research Group

Funding Received

Term	Two year
SHRF	$	40,000

About Program

The Research Group Facilitation Group Program was intended to: encourage and facilitate the formation and development of new groups that consisted of active researchers with common interests who were studying matters associated with the human health sciences, the health-related social sciences or other human health-related fields of study and who were interested in establishing a longer-term association with each other that would benefit their research productivity and competitiveness; advance strategic directions for health research within the home institution or the province; assist in increasing national funding for research in the field of interest in Saskatchewan, especially from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research or another of the Tri-Council agencies; and enhance the capacity for and quality of research in the field of interest and health research generally in Saskatchewan.

Peter Bretscher

Microbiology and Immunology

Medicine

University of Saskatchewan

John Gordon

Medicine

University of Saskatchewan

Autoimmunity reflects the unusual situation where the immune system attacks part of the body of which it is a part. The Immunology Research Group wants to look at specific themes like understanding what is or is not protective vaccination and immunotherapy, treatment and prevention of allergic disease, immunotherapy for tumours and the prevention and treatment of autoimmune disorders such as diabetes.

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Recipients

Peter Bretscher

John Gordon