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CONNECT WITH CANADA'S LEADING HEALTH INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM SYNAPSE LIFE SCIENCE CONSORTIUM

A Place to Discover

The recent global pandemic has
impressed onto governments the
importance of a robust life sciences
ecosystem, agile and empowered
to develop solutions to our health
challenges. The entire sector is growing,
but most exciting is the emergence of
two clusters based in Hamilton: cell and
gene therapy, and radiopharmaceuticals.

Core to Hamilton’s cell and gene
A Place to Grow therapy cluster is OmniaBio. The largest
commercial-scale manufacturing facility
for cell and gene therapy products in
Home to Ontario’s largest port, The McMaster Nuclear Reactor Canada, OmniaBio is expected to be the
Canada’s busiest cargo airport, the produces 60 percent of the world's largest facility of its kind in the country
fulcrum of Canada’s rail network, and iodine-125 -- a medical isotope used and will cement Hamilton as a Canadian
highway connections to the U.S. border to treat more than 70,000 patients cluster for this emerging technology.
and major Southern Ontario centres, with prostate and other cancers
Hamilton is the central node of many globally each year. Meanwhile, Hamilton is emerging as a
supply chains - a result of an industrial primary cluster for radiopharmaceuticals,
history that now benefits the life Currently expanding, McMaster radioactive drugs used to diagnose and
sciences sector. Innovation Park’s goal is to help treat diseases. Canada is a leader in
innovators, entrepreneurs, and radiopharmaceuticals and Hamilton is a
Augmenting these supply routes is ventures start, scale, and thrive by leader in Canada.
a growing amount of life sciences- acting as a bridge between research
specific infrastructure, anchored by and industry. In Hamilton’s hospitals, exciting
McMaster Innovation Park. Currently treatments are being researched and put
expanding, McMaster Innovation Beyond infrastructure, life sciences in into practice. St. Joe’s is one of the first
Park’s goal is to help start-ups Hamilton have been the beneficiary hospitals in the world to explore the use
graduate into commercial success. of some of the largest planned of robotic surgeries, just one example of
philanthropic gifts in Canada’s history. innovation happening here in Hamilton.
Hamilton’s robust infrastructure has Chief among them is Charles and
helped grow the city’s health network Margaret Juravinski’s $100 million
into the second largest in Ontario and endowment, which established the
the fourth largest in Canada. It’s also Juravinski Research Institute to
helped support organizations like the improve the treatment of age-related
Population Health Research Institute - diseases, cancer, lung and respiratory
a partnership between McMaster and care, and mental health.
St. Joe’s - which employs 370 HQP, has
more than 100 active clinical trials, and
enrolls 350,000 people in 102 countries.

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