Probiotics research pioneer Gregor Reid will hold the first research chair in Human Microbiology and Probiotics at Lawson Health Research Institute thanks to a $7-million donation from international yogurt maker Danone Group. More
University of Western Ontario researcher John McCormick has been given a $603,000 boost from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to investigate how toxic shock syndrome and other severe diseases can be prevented. More