Synapse News
Bay Area Health Trust supplies Ontario with McMaster Molecular Medium for COVID-19 PCR test kits
Bay Area Health Trust will be supplying Ontario’s provincial labs with its McMaster Molecular Medium (MMM), a molecular transport medium that is a critical component of COVID-19 PCR testing. This is a repeat order of the made-in-Ontario product by the procurement authority representing the Province of Ontario. MMM is on Public Health…
Hyivy Health secures $1.1 million in pre-seed funding to ease women’s pelvic health problems
Born from its founder’s own experience with cervical cancer, FemTech startup Hyivy Health has secured $1.1 million in pre-seed funding to improve womens’ pelvic health. Threshold Impact, Beresford Ventures, Equation Angels, Zambon Research Venture, The51, OCI, iGan, and Velocity all participated in the oversubscribed round, along with a…
Hamilton Health Sciences Adopts Cloud DX for Post-Surgical Monitoring of 2,400 Patients
Cloud DX has been selected as the Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) platform for Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) Surgical Transitions program. Launching this month, the program will monitor selected surgical patient populations using Cloud DX’s Connected Health™ platform supported by HHS’s Virtual Nursing Station. HHS is deploying…
Synapse, HiIvy, NERv and Allarta featured in LSO Success Stories
Life Sciences Ontario (LSO) has featured several Ontario life sciences organizations and companies that are producing astounding innovations across our sector. Four organizations with deep connections into Hamilton were profiled, including Synapse, HiIvy, NERv and Allarta. Read about how these businesses are fuelling our economy – and how…
Hamilton-based Elarex Wins $1.2M Grant: Toward more durable COVID vaccines
A new company spawned by McMaster University innovation in the arena of vaccine manufacturing has received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Elarex Inc., based in Burlington, ON, has been awarded a $1.2M Cdn grant from the non-profit humanitarian foundation to develop a new technology for keeping liquid mRNA vaccines safe…
Human trials for 2 inhaled COVID-19 vaccines to start in Hamilton in 2022
Human trials are set to begin early next year at an Ontario university for two next-generation COVID-19 vaccines that can be inhaled. Fiona Smaill is a professor of pathology and molecular medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton and lead researcher for the clinical trials. She said on Tuesday that both vaccines, which would be the […]
Weston Family Foundation funds $12M initiative to advance the science of healthy aging
The Weston Family Foundation is awarding a $12-million research grant to the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA), hosted at McMaster University, for a new initiative that will shed light on the many factors that influence brain health as we age, including lifestyle and the human microbiome. The Healthy Brains, Healthy Aging Initiative…
FendX (out of McMaster) pathogen-repelling wrap earns top prize in global innovation competition
The McMaster engineers who invented a plastic surface that repels bacteria and viruses have earned top prize in a design competition that drew 750 entries from 60 countries around the world. Leyla Soleymani and Tohid Didar, founders of FendX Technologies, led the team that created RepelWrap, have been named grand prize winners in the 2020…
Hamilton POV Podcast: Altus Assessments scales from local start-up to award-winning, national growth!
We all want a physician that has exceptional medical skills and education, but we also want to be in the care of someone who embodies empathy and kindness as well as someone who is well respected within the healthcare ecosystem. This is where Altus Assessments steps in with their program management and data analytics solutions […]