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Innovation Factory announces an MOU with HaloHealth to deliver a collaborative medical assessment & physician advisory service to SOPHIE companies.

Innovation Factory partners with HaloHealth to bridge the gap between healthcare startups and clinical expertise

Innovation Factory announces an MOU with HaloHealth to deliver a collaborative medical assessment & physician advisory service to SOPHIE companies.

September 6, 2023 | Innovation Factory

Altis Labs to Develop Digital Twins for Clinical Trials in Partnership with Leading Research Institutions and Global Biopharmaceutical Companies

Altis Labs announces today that it is leading an international coalition focused on the development and implementation of digital twins in clinical trials.

August 30, 2023 | Innovation Factory

Lactiga Receives FDA ‘Rare Pediatric Disease’ Designation for Groundbreaking Mucosal Immunoglobulin Therapy for CVID

LCTG-001 on course to be the first FDA-approved biologic from human milk for pediatric patients with Common Variable Immunodeficiency.

August 30, 2023 | Innovation Factory
PreOperative Performance is a SOPHIE company partnering with The Research Institute of St. Joes Hamilton to to help neuroradiologists to assess the quality and consistency of MRI diffusion imaging protocols.

PreOperative Performance Enters the SOPHIE Program to Fuel Collaboration with Ontario-Based Radiology Researchers

Through the SOPHIE program, PreOperative Performance will enter a 12-month co-development partnership with The Research Institute of St. Joe’s Hamilton (RSJH) to evaluate technology that aims to help radiology groups make better quality measurements of MRI machines. This press release was originally shared by PreOperative Performance…

June 16, 2023 | Innovation Factory

Fusion Pharmaceuticals Announces IND Clearance For FPI-2068, A Jointly Developed Novel Targeted Alpha Therapy

This press release was originally published by Fusion Pharmaceuticals on April 12, 2023. Read the original post here. FPI-2068 is a Bispecific Targeted Alpha Therapy (TAT) designed to Precisely Deliver Radiation to Tumor Cells HAMILTON, ON and BOSTON, April 12, 2023 /– Fusion Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: FUSN), a clinical-stage…

April 19, 2023 | Innovation Factory
10th annual Synapse Competition Winners and Judges pose for a group photo on stage with Innovation Factory CEO David Carter

Vessl Prosthetics Inc. takes first place in 10th Annual Synapse Competition, Winning over 50k in cash and in-kind prizes

Hamilton, ON – March 23, 2023 – Yesterday, Innovation Factory’s Synapse Life Science Competition, Ontario’s premier life science pitch competition, announced the winners of over $100,000 in prizes at the 10th annual showcase event. After three years of virtual events, the competition was held in person for the first time since 2019,…

March 23, 2023 | Innovation Factory
Innovation Factory - iF innovator Spotlight funding and partnerships

Altis Labs leads $6 million pan-Canadian initiative to develop and commercialize imaging biomarkers using deep learning

This media release was originally published by Altis Labs on January 24, 2023. Toronto, Ontario – Altis Labs, Inc. (“Altis”), the computational imaging platform for advancing precision medicine, announces today an initiative focused on developing, validating, and commercializing fully automated imaging biomarkers for solid tumors using…

February 17, 2023 | Innovation Factory

Canadian Venture Capital-Funded Biotech Companies to Watch in 2023

This article was originally published by Back Bay Life Science Advisors on February 1, 2023.   Canada’s thriving life science economy: spanning biotechnology/pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and digital health, consists of around 6,000 organizations and employs 120,000 people 1. The biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries…

February 1, 2023 | marketing iF
Allarta Life Science is evolving cell-based therapies leveraging the SOPHIE program and Hamilton's medical innovation ecosytem

Evolving a Novel Approach to Cell-Based Therapies with Hamilton’s Renowned Medical Innovation Ecosystem

A trained opera singer with an accomplished business background and a professor of chemistry, renowned globally for his research and expertise, may not appear to have anything in common. Yet a shared passion for innovation, a desire to make a difference and the knowledge of an unmet need in medical treatment options, led Maria Antonakos […]

January 30, 2023 | Southern Ontario Pharmaceutical and Health Innovation Ecosystem