Canada Foundation for Innovation

Canada Foundation for Innovation


Basil Petrof: Accelerating new treatments for respiratory diseases like asthma - Podcast

February 04, 2021

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Basil Petrof heads the Program for Translational Research in Respiratory Diseases at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. His research group participated in a clinical trial that proved the efficacy of a new therapy that burns away the muscle tissue in the lungs of asthmatic patients to help open their airways. It’s this kind of cutting-edge discovery that Petrof expects will move more rapidly from concept to proven treatment thanks to the new facilities at the RI-MUHC.

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