FHS Associate Professor Ralph Pantophlet received the 2021 CAHR-CANFAR Excellence in Research Awards (Basic Science category). This prestigious recognition highlights and celebrates the contributions of Canadian researchers in HIV/AIDS research in Canada and internationally. Pantophlet was bestowed with the award at the CAHR conference in April 2021, which was held remotely due to COVID, and notes that he is honoured “to be recognized by peers as deserving of [this] processional recognition.”
Pantophlet’s career in HIV-related research focuses specifically on vaccines and spans approximately 20 years. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he has applied his knowledge and experience to learning more about the function and behavior of SARS-CoV-2. While it’s too early to say how his current COVID-19 research will impact his ongoing HIV work, Pantophlet notes that “the success of mRNA-based vaccination has not gone unnoticed and it is possible that mRNA technology may prove useful in the HIV vaccine field also.”
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