Medtech fellowship program expands to Nova Scotia
September 13, 2023
HALIFAX – Medventions Atlantic, the second official program in Canada, has been launched with 12 inaugural fellows embarking on the program. Founded in 2016 by Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) in Toronto, Medventions is hospital-based commercialization-focused fellowship program designed to equip motivated science, medicine, and engineering students with the proper business acumen to fuel Canada’s medtech sector.
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