Innovation Anthology #484:
After four decades working in the lab and developing new vaccines, it’s hard to leave all that behind.
Even now as an administrator, the Vice President, Research at the University of Alberta, Dr. Lorne Babiuk, is still finding a way to make new discoveries.
DR. LORNE BABIUK: My mind did not go into mush just because I moved from active research to being an administrator. And in fact I was fortunate to just get a multi-million dollar grant from the IDRC to develop a vaccine against Riff Valley fever which is a problem in Africa. However, I’m concerned that it could come to North America and Europe just like West Nile did . And that disease is much more devastating than West Nile virus is. So again, I am not involved in doing the actual experimental work but I’m involved in the intellectual part of it and deciding how best to approach things and then have other people who are much smarter than me actually do the work.
Dr. Babiuk is also participating in a Bill and Linda Gates Challenge Grant to develop a one dose vaccine against whooping cough that can be administered to babies and without a needle.
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I’M CHERYL CROUCHER
Dr. Lorne Babiuk is a recipient of the 2012 Canada Gairdner-Wightman Award
IRDC is the Internationa Development Research Centre
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Program Date: 2012-07-05