The CanHepC trainee fellowship competition provides transdisciplinary training and stipends to exceptional university graduates at various stages of their academic and professional career.
A total of 10 new student trainees will be joining the ranks of the program in 2021-2022:
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CanHepC held its 6th Annual Meeting on April 23, 2021 gathering 77 of our member investigators, knowledge users, collaborators, and trainees.
Exceptionally this year and due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Annual Meeting was held in an entirely virtual format. The main topic of...
A new meeting was inaugurated at the Canadian Liver Meeting (CLM) in May this year: the North American Hepatitis Elimination Summit.
The Summit took place virtually within the CLM from May 2-5, 2021 and was co-organised by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD...
The 2020 Nobel Prize of Medicine has been awarded jointly to trio of pioneers Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice for the discovery of hepatitis C virus.
It’s with great excitement that we received the news today that Dr Harvey J. Alter (National Institutes of Health...
Raising awareness on the burden of viral hepatitis worldwide, the World Hepatitis Day campaign on July 28, 2020 reminds us of the global commitments made to eliminate viral hepatitis by 2030.
It was in 2016 that Canada endorsed the World Health Organization's Global Health Sector...
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En 2016, l’Organisation Mondiale de la Santé a résolu d’éliminer l’hépatite C en tant que menace pour la santé publique d’ici 2030. De nombreux pays ont développé des plans d’action afin d’atteindre cet objectif (1-3). En 2019, le Réseau Canadien sur l’Hépatite C a...
A CanHepC study published in the JAMA Network Open estimated the national hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment rates to sustain in Canada to meet the World Health Organization (WHO) HCV elimination targets by 2030.
The WHO has set targets to eliminate viral hepatitis globally with the aim...
Annually, CanHepC extends fellowships to provide transdisciplinary training and stipend support to Canadian involved in hepatitis C research, who are university graduates at various stages of their academic and professional career.
A total of four new student trainees fellowship have...
The recipients of the 9th Canadian Symposium on Hepatitis C Virus (CSHCV) 2020 trainee poster & oral presentations awards are:
Best oral presentation – Hanna Wallace, Memorial Univesity Best graduate student poster – Julia Casey, University of Toronto Best graduate student poster...
The 9th Canadian Symposium on Hepatitis C Virus (CSHCV) took place in Montreal on Friday 28 February 2020 as part of the Canadian Liver Meeting, a 3-day meeting co-organised by CanHepC, the Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver and the Canadian Association of Hepatology Nurses....
