Innovation

TORONTO - Sinai Health’s Schwartz Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute (SREMI) has received a transformational donation from The Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman Foundation to address pressing challenges in Canadian emergency departments. Read More

MONTREAL and TORONTO - Brain Canada and the Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI, powered by Baycrest), two leading national organizations driving the advancement and real-world application of brain health research, are partnering to launch a new funding opportunity designed to speed up the translation of proven research into products that improve older Canadians’ brain health and quality of life. Read More

MONTREAL - MEDTEQ+ and AGE-WELL, two major players in Canada’s AgeTech ecosystem, announce the launch of a new cohort of 17 collaborative projects focused on technologies designed to improve the quality of life of older adults and caregivers, supported through the envisAGE initiative. Read More

TORONTO - The Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI), powered by Baycrest, is awarding $3.2 million in funding to 25 Canadian companies and researchers using AI and other critical technologies to solve urgent aging and brain health challenges - including dementia prevention. Read More

MONTREAL - AI4Eyes is proud to announce that it has been officially accepted into the MEDTEQ+ Avisé Program, with its application approved by the Ministère de l’Économie, de l’Innovation et de l’Énergie (MEIE). As part of this major Go to Market milestone, AI4Eyes has been awarded $700,000 by MEDTEQ+ to support the validation of its AI-powered dry eye platform in real-world clinical settings. Read More

TORONTO and HAMILTON, Ont. - For patients awaiting lung cancer staging results, delays carry real consequences. Staging, in other words, determining whether cancer has spread beyond the lung to nearby lymph nodes, shapes the entire treatment pathway: surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or palliative care. Read More

TORONTO - HealthPRO Canada, in partnership with the National Healthcare Innovation Council, is proud to recognize the winners of the inaugural Healthcare Innovation Den, a national initiative created to address a persistent challenge in healthcare: ensuring proven innovations have a pathway to broader adoption and impact. Read More

TORONTO - AGE-WELL is thrilled to launch the 2026 AGE-WELL National Impact Challenge: Solutions That Change Lives, an annual pitch competition spotlighting Canada’s leading AgeTech innovators and their solutions that support healthy aging. Read More

MONTREAL - The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (The Institute) are proud to announce the launch of the IMPACT Centre, a bold initiative designed to accelerate healthcare innovation and help bring promising technologies, therapies and research discoveries into real-world patient care faster. Read More

TORONTO – INOVAIT, Canada’s image-guided therapy (IGT) and artificial intelligence (AI) commercialization network, has announced the latest recipients of its Pilot Fund. This research and development (R&D) funding program supports cutting-edge medical technology projects that harness the transformative power of AI, machine learning, and big data analytics in IGT to advance medical innovation and streamline care. Read More