Research & Development

TORONTO – UHN researchers, on a platform powered by the organization's new DATA Team, are studying how older Ontarians respond to COVID-19 vaccines relative to younger persons in an attempt to understand long-term safety and efficacy. The first of its kind to be approved at UHN, the study is completely electronic, from recruitment to consent and at-home participation. Read More

EDMONTON – The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has awarded $1.6 million to the University of Alberta for the Sensory-Motor Adaptive Rehabilitation Technology (SMART) CREATE training program to train up to 120 graduate and undergraduate students over the next six years. Read More

TORONTO – Clinical trials published in high-profile medical journals rarely report on income or other key sociodemographic characteristics of study participants, according to a new report that suggests these gaps may create blind spots when it comes to healthcare, especially for disadvantaged populations. Read More

WATERLOO, Ont. – BlackBerry Limited and the University of Waterloo have announced a five-year, multi-million dollar partnership agreement focused on driving research-powered innovation in Canada. Combining the University’s world-renowned research and BlackBerry’s ability to deliver transformational products and services, the two organizations will work together in a unique program designed to fast-track the development of research and technology into market-ready products. Read More

OTTAWA – The Bruyère Research Institute has been honoured with a re-designation as a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Knowledge Translation and Health Technology Assessment for Health Equity. Read More

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland Clinic and IBM have announced a 10-year partnership to establish the Discovery Accelerator, a joint Cleveland Clinic – IBM center with the mission of fundamentally advancing the pace of discovery in healthcare and life sciences through the use of high performance computing on the hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing technologies. Read More

MELVILLE, N.Y. – Nikon Instruments Inc., innovator of advanced microscope systems, has announced the inauguration of the Centre of Excellence located at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute (LTRI) of Sinai Health in Toronto. Read More

OTTAWA – The Ottawa Hospital’s Biotherapeutics Manufacturing Centre (BMC) plans to manufacture three COVID-19 vaccines for human clinical trials, filling a critical gap in Canada’s vaccine manufacturing capacity. “If we’re going to vaccinate every person in Canada and around the world, we need more vaccines, more research and more manufacturing capacity,” said Dr. Duncan Stewart (pictured), executive vice-president of research at The Ottawa Hospital and professor of medicine at the University of Ottawa. Read More

OTTAWA – The government of Canada has announced more than $518 million in research infrastructure funding through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). The funding will support 102 state-of-the-art projects at 35 post-secondary institutions and research hospitals across the country – including healthcare I.T. projects. Read More