What if your smartphone could tell you your dinner is nutritious simply from a picture of your plate? How about wireless technology detecting a bad fall at home and calling 911? What if your doctor could send you messages on your tablet reminding you to take your medication? There’s an app for that because of […]

QReserve Inc. announces that it has been awarded a non-refundable financial contribution of up to $50,000 from the National Research Council of Canada’s Industrial Research Assistance Program. With this award, IRAP’s total contribution to QReserve’s research and development program is $70,000 since 2015. This new funding will be used to…

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…

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.…

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,…

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…

On January 13th, the Globe and Mail published an info-graphic outlining the Toronto-Waterloo high-tech corridor, which encompasses 4 urban clusters including Hamilton and represents 15,000 companies employing over a quarter million workers. To see the full graphic in the Globe and Mail, click here  

Mariner Endosurgery, an innovative Canadian medical device company announced today the recent completion of an investment round led by several prominent medical device investors and leading laparoscopic surgeons from the Toronto – Hamilton area. “We are very pleased with the strategic investors now on board with Mariner…

Two cutting-edge McMaster-based institutes have received a combined $10 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation. The Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy is getting $3.75 million over five years, to maintain its state-of-the-art equipment. The Canadian Research Data Centre Network, which has 27 research data centres across the…