BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network

The Emerging Team Grant: Canadian Microbiome Initiative (CMI) is being launched to provide an opportunity for Canadian researchers to join others on the international scene, including their US colleagues working in the NIH road map initiative termed the Human Microbiome Project, as participants in the IHMC. Canada already has several large-scale infrastructures and considerable research expertise in genomics, bioinformatics and microbiological research. By bringing together researchers from different, but complementary, research domains in a multidisciplinary team setting it is expected that new insights will be gained on the interactions between microbes and their influence on human health and disease.