Nancy Ross, accomplished research administrator and renowned expert in population health, will assume the position of Vice-Principal (Research) at Queen’s effective August 1, 2021.
Queen’s researcher David Maslove is leading the Canadian arm of an international project aiming to sequence the genomes of 100,000 COVID-19 patients to better understand their genes and the disease.
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