Putting humans at the centre of the blue economy.
That™s the goal of a long-standing relationship between 91ÑÇÉ«™s Faculty of Medicine and the Marine Institute with the national Mission to Seafarers organization and its new Newfoundland and Labrador ” and a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Catalyst Grant is going a long way in supporting that goal.
Principal investigator Dr. Desai Shan, a maritime health and safety expert and an assistant professor of occupational health and safety in the Faculty of Medicine at 91ÑÇÉ«, is the project™s principal investigator.
Forty researchers at 91ÑÇÉ«, including Drs. Anthony Incognito, Joseph Olayemi Olajide and Qutuba Karwi in the Faculty of Medicine, are receiving support.
The funding comes from the ™s (NSERC) highly competitive research grant programs.
In total, 91ÑÇÉ« researchers have secured $9,436,718 in funding. Teams are based in the faculties of Medicine, Science and Engineering and Applied Science, as well as the Marine Institute.
In 2017, Cynthia McNeil began noticing random rashes on her arms.
Concerned, she made an appointment with her family doctor in Fort McMurray, Alta., who sent her off for tests.
Her bloodwork showed chronically high white blood cell counts, so she was referred to a hematologist for more tests.