Building on the research that was done may help prepare for future pandemics.
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research and its partners have so far handed out more than 550 grants worth over $250 million for research related to COVID-19. Some will undoubtedly lead to significant breakthroughs that will help us deal with this pandemic and those that follow in future. Others, inevitably, will fail to live up to their potential and lead nowhere. So Canadian researchers are beginning to ask how those hundreds of grants will be evaluated to ensure that the money was well-spent. Read more in University Affairs.