The Canadian Microbiome Initiative

If you are wondering who is working on the real issues of human life, the following Canadian researchers are working on the real war that humanity is facing in realitive obscurity. The world will owe a great debt of gratitude to these people.
The researchers and projects in the Canadian Microbiome Initiative include:

• David Guttman of the University of Toronto, whose team is studying the role bacteria, viruses and fungi play in the severity and progression of lung infections in people with cystic fibrosis. For example, whether the microbes exacerbate the disease.

• Anita Kozyrskyj, an epidemiologist at the University of Alberta, is co-director of a cross-Canada team investigating whether giving antibiotics in the first year of life triggers asthma and allergies later in childhood by harming the bacterial balance in the intestine that helps the body absorb nutrients and protects against harmful bugs.

• In Vancouver, Dr. Deborah Money of the Women's Health Research Institute is leading a project to examine vaginal organisms to determine what a healthy bacterial balance is for women to protect against sexually transmitted infections and prevent miscarriage and pre-term birth.

• Dr. Ken Croitoru, a gastroenterologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, will sequence the DNA of microbes in the digestive system that might play a role in the development of inflammatory bowel disease.

The research teams are based in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Nova Scotia.

Genome British Columbia, the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of Canada, and the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation are also jointly providing $1.4 million in funding.





Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/10/14/microbiome-research-funding-cihr.html#ixzz12O2fhwua