![Two researchers from McMaster in a lab as a backdrop to the Title McMaster and Kapoose Creek Bio set sights on new fungi-derived medicines in new $2.2M drug discovery partnership](https://synapseconsortium.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/iF-Website-News-Posts-Featured-Images-320x184.jpg)
Researchers at Kapoose Creek Bio partner with McMaster University to develop a new synthetic biology platform for fungi-derived medicines.
![Image of the doctor who created the medtech device](https://synapseconsortium.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/HHS-News-post-320x184.jpg)
The Ontario Centre of Innovation recently announced $500,000 in provincial funding to expand a made-in-Hamilton smartphone app into the Ottawa region.
![How femtech companies are tackling gender health gaps while empowering women. From left to right: Rachel Bartholomew, CEO and Founder of Hyivy Health, Nadia Ladak, CEO and Co-founder of Marlow, Dallas Barnes, CEO and founder of Reya Health](https://synapseconsortium.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/How-femtech-companies-are-tackling-gender-health-gaps-while-empowering-women-320x184.jpg)
Growing a femtech company brings more challenges than successes, but these founders are focused on closing the women’s healthcare gap.
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May-2024
McMaster and University of Ottawa recieved funding from CBRF to expand Canada’s biomanufacturing industry for development of technology and theraputics.
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Jan-2024
11 women-led companies have been selected for the OBIO® WiHI Seed Program.
![Topology Health is testing their AI-powered toolkit that helps healthcare providers integrate digital health apps for efficient data flow.](https://synapseconsortium.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/TopologyHealth-320x184.jpg)
Topology Health is testing their AI-powered toolkit that helps healthcare providers integrate digital health apps for efficient data flow.
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Femtech startup Cosm Medical is changing women’s pelvic health with a medical device that combines software, AI and 3D printing.
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Altis Labs announces today that it is leading an international coalition focused on the development and implementation of digital twins in clinical trials.
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LCTG-001 on course to be the first FDA-approved biologic from human milk for pediatric patients with Common Variable Immunodeficiency.
![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.](https://synapseconsortium.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/PreOperative-Performance-SOPHIE-320x184.jpg)
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 through Newswire on June 14, 2023. Read the original […]