Opened in July 2006, the Canadian Center for Vaccinology (Halifax) is located in the Dr. Richard B. Goldbloom Research and Clinical Care Pavilion at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was built with infrastructure funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation's Innovation Fund and Research Hospital Fund, and the Government of Nova Scotia Office of Economic Development.
The Center’s 20,000 sq. ft. facilities include laboratories for microbiological and molecular research, ambulatory clinical trial facilities, data analysis, videoconferencing/telemedicine capabilities and training.
The Clinical Research Unit / Sanofi Pasteur Vaccine Challenge Unit, a 5,400 sq. ft., 10-bed inpatient unit with isolation rooms, is the first of its kind in Canada and, with less than a dozen such facilities worldwide, at the cutting edge of global vaccine research. The unit may also be used for other inpatient and outpatient clinical research including, but not limited to, research on infectious disease transmission, antimicrobial effectiveness and pharmacokinetics.
A Containment Level 3 laboratory was certified for operation in 2011, the first of its kind in Atlantic Canada.
