Research & Development

SAINT JOHN – The University of New Brunswick (UNB) received an early gift this holiday season in the form of a $27.2-million commitment from the Federal Government of Canada and the Province of New Brunswick. The funding will go toward constructing the Health and Social Innovation Centre at UNB’s Saint John campus. Read More

MONTREAL – December 13th marked the one-year anniversary of the creation of the Quebec SmartCare Consortium (QSCC). Led by the Opal Health Informatics Group at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), the QSCC brings together patients, clinicians, researchers, and diverse industry partners. These groups are working together to use the technology of the Opal patient portal to provide patients with access to their medical data and to contribute new data for research. Read More

SURREY, B.C. – ICT Group and Lark Group’s Health and Technology District in downtown Surrey expanded Nov. 14 as they broke ground on the City Centre 4 building, their largest phase to date. The building will be a part of eight developments that, when completed, will make up the largest health and technology hub of its kind in Canada. Read More

TORONTO – The Ontario government has launched a $15 million Life Sciences Innovation Fund to help life sciences entrepreneurs and innovators bring their ideas and prototypes from the lab to the marketplace. This new, early-stage fund is an important tool in the province’s Life Sciences Strategy, Taking Life Sciences to the Next Level, that will increase Ontario’s competitiveness and help companies advance made-in-Ontario solutions. Read More

OTTAWA – The Health Research Foundation (HRF) of Innovative Medicines Canada is pleased to announce that Dr. Megan MacPherson (pictured) and her research team were awarded the HRF Research Team Grant in Virtual Care. Dr. MacPherson is the regional practice lead for research and knowledge translation for Virtual Health at Fraser Health in British Columbia. Read More

TORONTO – The Rogers Foundation is announcing a $90-million benefaction – matched with $94.2 million in institutional support and additional fundraising – that will sustain, advance, and significantly expand the reach of the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research (TRCHR). The centre is a visionary, collaborative initiative harnessing the strengths of its three institutional partners: The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), University Health Network (UHN), and the University of Toronto. Read More

MONTREAL – A pioneering youth mental health project will enhance Canada’s overall understanding of youth mental health needs and advance new assessment and treatment approaches. Each year, one out of every four youth in Canada needs mental health services, making an initiative such as this urgent and critical for the well-being of our young people. The “Canadian Youth Mental Health Insight (CYMHI) Platform” powered by RBC Future Launch, will use open data, machine learning and other methods to improve communication between youth and families, researchers, clinicians and other service providers with diverse mental health experiences and specializations. Read More

TORONTO – INOVAIT, the pan-Canadian network supported by the Government of Canada’s Strategic Innovation Fund, is pleased to announce additional recipients of its Pilot Fund. This competitive funding was awarded to further image-guided therapy (IGT) projects, including the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data analytics to advance medical innovation. Read More

MONTREAL – SCALE AI has announced funding of $50 million for 12 projects. The projects include an AI partnership involving the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) and Logibec, a growing healthcare software developer based in Quebec. Read More

TORONTO – The GenWell Project – in partnership with Simon Fraser University, the Institute for Social Connection, the Public Health Agency of Canada and several researchers from Canadian Universities – has received $761,000 in Federal funding from the Canadian Institute for Health Research. The funding is to research and produce Canadian Social Connection Guidelines that will help Canadians build a better understanding of the impact of social ties to their health and wellbeing, and its impact on building a healthier society. Read More