A new biopharmaceutical company has received $33 million in venture capital financing to develop medical isotopes to treat cancer. Fusion Pharmaceuticals is an offshoot of McMaster University’s Centre for Probe Development and Commercialization (CPDC) and will have 20 employees at a development facility at McMaster Innovation Park, says John Valliant, who founded the centre in […]
The Research Institute of St. Joe’s Hamilton represents a collaborative community of researchers that strive to improve the quality of life of patients in Hamilton and around the world. With $26 million in funding – of which a quarter comes from corporate sources – St. Joseph’s 176 researchers produced 531 publications. Highlights of 2016 included […]
Feb-2017
The Hamilton Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC) is releasing Health Transformation: An Action Plan for Ontario, which outlines three strategic recommendations to improve Ontario’s health care system. Despite other growing concerns surrounding topics like electricity pricing and climate change, health care sustainability still remains the most important issue for […]
Dr. David Kroff talks about the improving access to new tools and application that can impact care before, during and after imaging. In particular, he focuses on Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), a next-generation means to make electronic health records more easily available, combining the best features of HL7 vs2, v3, and CDA. For the […]