TORONTO – Dr. Kullervo Hynynen (pictured), director of Physical Sciences at Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI), was awarded $4 million from the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science through its Ontario Research Fund Research Excellence program.
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CALGARY – It is the most common congenital heart defect: bicuspid aortic valve (BAV), a genetic condition in which patients are born with two flaps in their aortic heart valve instead of the usual three, and yet there isn’t a personalized approach for preventing the complications resulting from this defect.
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TORONTO – The Council of Academic Hospitals of Ontario (CAHO) has officially opened its door as an Innovation Broker for the Office of the Chief Health Innovation Strategist with the Province of Ontario. In this role, CAHO and its members are connecting innovators and removing barriers so that innovations are brought into our hospitals and the healthcare system faster, improving patient care and benefiting the Ontario economy.
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OTTAWA – Researchers from The Ottawa Hospital Breast Health Centre and the Ottawa Integrative Cancer Center (OICC) have opened the Ottawa site of the Lead-In to the Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (TMIST). The Breast Health Centre is one of three clinical trial sites to launch the Lead-In in Canada. It is expected that shortly this trial will be integrated into a larger U.S./Canada TMIST, managed by the ECOG-ACRIN Cooperative Clinical Trials Group.
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FREDERICTON, NB – Jon Sensinger (pictured), associate director of University of New Brunswick’s Institute of Biomedical Engineering, was recently named 2016 Young Health Researcher of the Year by the New Brunswick Health Research Foundation (NBHRF) after careful consideration from a national peer review committee.
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WINNIPEG – A next generation research centre will be built at Seven Oaks Hospital in upcoming months, now that three quarters of the cost has been pledged by private donors. The $1.2 million centre will bring together three clinician scientists and their team of 10-12 research coordinators, biostatisticians and data specialists.
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TORONTO – Analytics 4 Life (A4L), a Toronto-based eHealth company, announced its second project award by Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Platform (SOSCIP) and Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE). The focus of the new project is to create a proprietary machine learning computational algorithm that can analyze physiologic signals and identify patterns related to heart disease.
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BRAMPTON, Ont. – A new study will examine a non-invasive therapy that triggers the body’s own defence mechanisms to protect heart attack patients against heart damage. The FIRST Study – Field Implementation of the autoRIC Device in STEMI (ST-segment Acute Myocardial Infarction) – is the first of its kind anywhere in the world.
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MONTREAL – The Montreal Neurological Institute announced that it has received $1 million worth of supercomputing data-storage technology from EMC Corporation. The donation will allow researchers to map the human brain to a degree of precision that would have been unthinkable a generation ago.
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CALGARY – IBM and the University of Calgary have established a five-year collaboration to accelerate and expand genomic research into common childhood conditions such as autism, congenital diseases and the many unknown causes of illness.
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