On an average day, how many small tasks must you remember to complete? Taking your medication, watering the plants, taking out the garbage, or picking your child up from an after-school activity? Now imagine you had a brain injury, or Alzheimer’s, dementia or ADHD, which left you unable to remember these simple tasks. After […]

iF client Sound Options was recently featured in The Hamilton Spectator, highlighting their expansion into Manitoba and Alberta this summer. Read the full Hamilton Spectator piece on Sound Options here!

  In this week’s episode of Spectrum Radio the feature interview was with Brandon Aubie, the founder and CEO of our client Q-Reserve, which is working out of The Forge. They talk about his company (which is creating a public database for researchers and science equipment), moving from academia to entrepreneurship (he has a PhD), […]

  In October 2013, a 14-year-old boy by the name of Avonte Oquendo wandered away from his class and out of his school. The security cameras outside of his school captured him darting across the street until he was no longer visible. This is the last footage ever seen of him alive. After he had […]

In August, 2012, Michael Chrostowski got his PhD in neuroscience from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., with a thesis focused on a treatment for tinnitus, chronic ringing of the ears commonly experienced by people with hearing problems. Two months later he co-founded a company in Hamilton to turn the technology into customized sound…

Hamilton, ON (April 9, 2015) – On April 8, Hamilton’s life science community gathered at McMaster Innovation Park to take part in the Synapse Life Science Competition final showcase. The event showcased ten teams: seven through poster presentations while the top three teams presented their innovations live on stage to a panel of industry…

  We’ve put together a Year-in-Review document showcasing iF’s successful 2014 fiscal year that we’d like to share with you! See it here

  McMaster University startup, QReserve Inc., is happy to announce the launch of their Collaborative Funding Directory as a free resource for researchers and industry to discover funding opportunities in support of collaborative research projects. Read the full Software Hamilton piece on QReserve’s new funding directory here!  

  Accessing the right equipment and expertise is critical to scientists and innovators, especially within a university or college setting. Although they have millions of dollars worth of equipment and thousands of researchers and technicians, it’s a challenge to find labs with specific equipment and researchers with particular…