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Mac biotech startup lands $33 million in venture capital
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…
St. Joseph’s Research Institute Releases 2016 Annual Report
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.…
Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC) Releases Health Transformation: An Action Plan for Ontario
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,…
New Tools Will Assist Radiologists in an Era of Increased Pressures
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…
The Toronto-Waterloo corridor, explained
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
Stealth Medical Device Startup Mariner Endosurgery Completes First Round of Funding
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…
Mac research centres get $10 million in government funding
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…
$3.2-million radiology centre opens at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton
A generous act of health-care philanthropy has allowed St. Joseph’s Healthcare to purchase state-of-the-art ultrasound and angiography machines as well as an air-handling unit that supplies surgical-grade quality air to prevent the spread of airborne diseases. More than 4,000 radiology procedures are expected to be performed at the…
Canadian researchers encourage intensive care patients to pedal towards recovery
St. Josehp's Healthcare experimental project, named TryCycle, has been highlighted in CTV News.