Congrats to McKenna lab member Daniel Gussakovsky and department colleague Jörg Stetefeld on launching White Otter Biotech. Danny secured Micas Accelerate funding to launch aspects of the company while a PhD student in my research group related to fish biodiversity monitoring using environmental DNA and RNA.

We are thrilled to have received a 5-year CIHR Project Grant (2020-2025) from the Molecular & Cellular Biology of Cancer panel to continue our studies on the non-coding RNA BC200 and its role in cancer cell survival.

The group was awarded a University of Manitoba Small Equipment Research Fund Grant to purchase a new FPLC system for RNA purification!

We are thrilled to have received, in conjunction with our collaborators from the Portet Group in Mathematics at the University of Manitoba, a 1 year Collaborative Grant from the Faculty of Science to investigate mathematical modelling of the interaction between viral RNA and the OAS family of innate immunity enzymes.