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The hurdles facing Canada's planned pandemic-busting lab

Ottawa's plan for a state-of-the-art lab to help tackle emerging health threats is commendable on paper. But top health researchers say long-term funding gaps, recent staff cuts and red tape could threaten its real-world success.

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But top health researchers say long-term funding gaps, recent staff cuts and red tape could threaten its real-world success. Experts say Canadas plan to build a $267-million medical countermeasures laboratory in Winnipeg is a vital step toward heading off future pandemics, but they warn the facility faces steep hurdles around long-term funding, staffing and governance. While the lab aims to bridge a critical gap in testing early-stage vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostic tools, health researchers caution that a brand-new building will accomplish little without sustained, decades-long investments in human talent. "It's safe to say that in principle it's not a bad idea, but then you would need to really walk the talk of countermeasures." The facility would add capacity for preclinical trialslab and animal testingwithin Canadas research and development pipeline. For now, according to NML chief operating officer Steven Guercio, space constraints mean the NML sometimes repurposes lab facilities meant for research into the most volatile pathogenssuch as Ebolain order to do preclinical tests.

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