Innovation

MONTREAL – A national R&D platform, powered by leading-edge AI, will now move forward with the support of up to $49 million from the federal government’s Strategic Innovation Fund, along with $159 million in cash and additional in-kind contributions from 97 consortium partners. Read More

OTTAWA – Joule is pleased to help boost innovation during the pandemic, supporting six recipients with its COVID-19 Innovation grant program. The grant program was launched in June to help physicians and medical learners scale up COVID-19 solutions. The recipients distinguished themselves from nearly 300 applications, and are sharing $1 million, the largest grant offering provided by Joule since its inception in 2016. Read More

SURREY, BC – The Health and Technology District in Surrey, B.C. is partnering with Halo Health, Canada’s first angel network for healthcare, on a new collaboration to expand and support health-tech innovations and entrepreneurs. Halo Health is a not-for-profit angel network of entrepreneurial medical doctors, physicians, healthcare graduates and medical students supporting and scaling health-tech companies that build and strengthen the future of healthcare. Read More

HALIFAX – MOBIA announced that it has received federal funding for SurgeCon, an Emergency Department (ED) flow solution app. The funding, through Innovation Solutions Canada, was awarded under the non-medical category of innovations designed to address public health challenges presented by COVID-19 and future public health emergencies. Read More

MONTREAL and OTTAWA  – A global pandemic didn’t stop entrepreneur Azadeh Dastmalchi (pictured) from innovating. On the contrary, she spent the time pivoting her ground-breaking medical-grade smartwatch – the first-of-its-kind to continuously measure all five vital signs and provide cardiac monitoring in one device – to serve as an early stage COVID-19 prediction and monitoring solution. Read More

HALIFAX – Health and life sciences companies in Atlantic Canada are invited to present their innovative solutions for improving the mental health and wellness of Nova Scotians during the second Health Challenge Pitch Event. Participants will vie for a $100,000 prize and an opportunity to launch their products in collaboration with Nova Scotia Health. Read More

TORONTO – The Vector Institute announced the establishment of a new AI engineering team that will translate Vector’s leading AI research into new industrial applications and healthcare initiatives. The engineering team will be led by Ron Bodkin (pictured) who will assume the role of VP of AI Engineering and CIO at the Vector Institute, and Engineering Lead at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology in Society as of September 8, 2020. Read More

OTTAWA – Realize Medical is collaborating with Logitech to further enhance Elucis, the world’s first VR platform for creating patient-specific 3D medical models directly in virtual reality. The partnership will bring Logitech’s VR Ink Pilot Edition to the platform, enabling users to draw precisely and directly in the Elucis platform. Read More

TORONTO – At UHN’s KITE Research Institute, Scientist Dr. Babak Taati (pictured) and his research team have harnessed computer vision in a pioneering method for differentiating between different types of sleep apneas. Sleep apnea is a chronic disorder in which breathing intermittently pauses during sleep. This interrupted breathing can dramatically increase the risk of heart disease, stroke and other complications. Read More