Meet Miguel Quiñones-Mateu and current cohort of Western Research Chairs – News.westernu
January 05, 2024
World-leading virologist 1 of 7 ‘strategic focus’ researchers supported by program
When Miguel Quiñones-Mateu landed in London, Ont. from Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, it marked a significant step on a journey beginning years before.
Two decades ago, Quiñones-Mateu and his friends and colleagues, Eric Arts and Richard Gibson, scratched out ideas for a viral vaccine seed bank on a napkin.
Fast forward to today. Arts, a professor and Canada Research Chair in HIV Pathogenesis and Viral Control at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, is also the executive director of Western’s level 2 and 3 biocontainment laboratory, Imaging Pathogens for Knowledge Translation (ImPaKT). Gibson is ImPaKT’s director of operations.
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