EDMONTON — The University of Alberta’s laboratory that studies viruses such as HIV, hepatitis, SARS and H1N1 was renamed the Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology Friday after the foundation’s Canadian arm made the largest single donation in the Edmonton-based university’s history.
That $28 million donation, plus $52.5 million from the provincial government, has already boosted the virology institute’s reputation and helped recruit a world-renowned virologist from San Francisco who discovered the hepatitis C virus in 1987. Dr. Michael Houghton, a private consultant in the biotechnology industry and former scientific director of a company that developed therapies for infectious disease, will start work in Edmonton June 1st.
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“It is completely transformative, a paradigm shift that puts us at the cutting edge of discoveries of virology in the world,” said U of A president Indira Samarasekera. “It puts us in the league of universities like Stanford, Berkley, Oxford and Cambridge because we will be part of a Li Ka Shing network of global centres.”
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