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Acknowledgements

The CanVaxKB research was supported by NIH-NIAID grant R01AI081062 to Dr. Oliver He.

Dr. Asiyah Yu Lin, who worked as a research fellow in Dr. He's laboratory during 2010-2014, contributed significantly to the CanVaxKB project during her research period in the lab. Asiyah has resumed her colllaboration on this project since 2019.

Mr. Edison Ong and Mr. Anthony Huffman, two graduate students in Bioinformatics in the University of Michigan Medical School, contributed significantly to the data annotation and analysis of the CanVaxKB project.

Mr. Zuoshuang Xiang and Mr. Bin Zhao, two bioinformaticians in the lab, supported the early stage of the CanVaxKB database and web interface development.

Many undergraduate and high school students participated in this project, most of whom were supported by the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) at the University of Michigan. We would like to acknowledge the following undergraduate and high school students who contributed to the CanVaxKB development:

  • Long Tran, undergraduate student, University of Michigan, volunteer on CanVaxKB data annotation and analysis (since October 2021 - present).
  • Eliyas Asfaw, UROP undergraduate student (May - July 28, 2020), then volunteer (August 2020 - present)
  • Chloe Darancou, UROP undergraduate student (May - July 28, 2020), then volunteer (August 2020 - summer 2021).
  • Siqi Li, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2019 - April 2020), then volunteer (May 2020 - May 2021)
  • Madison Kalter, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2019 - April 2020)
  • Nader Wehbi, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2019 - April 2020)
  • Davis Bartels, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2019 - April 2020)
  • Farah Reyal, Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, MD (June 2019 - present)
  • Youssef Tammam, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD (September 2019 - present)
  • Madison George, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2016 - May 2017) 
  • Ronak Sutariya, research assistant (May 2016 - 2017), University of Michigan
  • Kimberly Berke, research assistant (May 2015 - 2017), University of Michigan
  • Elyse Morgan-Anne Fleck Fleck, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2013 - May 2014)
  • Nancy Hoai Tran, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2013 - May 2014)
  • Daniel Amir Faghihnia, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2013 - May 2014)

Three high school students have also contributed to the CanVaxKB develpment:

  • Mr. Ibrahim Seleznev, a high school student in Walter Johnson High School, Bethesda, Maryland. Volunteer research: July 2021 - present.
  • Ms. Virginia He, a high school student in Huron High School, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Volunteer research: June 2021 - present.
  • Mr. Justin Song, a high school student in Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Volunteer research: June 2021 - present.