OBIO was happy to celebrate the wedding of Braze Mobility Co-Founder and CEO Founder, Pooja Viswanathan, on December 14th and 15th, 2019.

Innovation Factory, Hamilton’s regional innovation centre, will expand into a $2.4 million collaborative space, providing entrepreneurs with access to advanced equipment to design and build innovative new products. The 10,000-square-foot space will also be home to The Forge, McMaster’s startup incubator.

Versant Ventures announced an infusion of $700 million through two new funds, including a primary global fund and Canadian companion fund.

Dr. Sheila Wang, Chief Medical Officer at Swift Medical, was featured on CTV Montreal demonstrating Swift's wound measurement app at the McGill University Health Centre.

Charles Plant, Senior Director at the Impact Centre, has released a book titled 'Triggers and Barriers: A customer perspective on innovation,' which focuses on how customers think when they are buying something innovative. 

The Lazaridis Institute at Wilfrid Laurier University opened applications for their first Women Founder/Co-Founder cohort for the flagship Lazaridis Scale-Up Program.

Mariner Endosurgery announced U.S. FDA clearance for their LaparaGuard Augmented Surgical Navigation System, which allows surgeons unprecedented 3D spatial awareness during minimally invasive abdominal procedures.

The Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative (CTA) helps high-potential, high-growth Canadian technology SMEs seeking to expand to the U.S through a 5 month program of workshops, events, mentorship and business introductions.

Exact Imaging won the healthcare award at European Venture Contest Final 2018, Europe's leading network and investment event for high-growth technological start-ups, venture capital investors and technological corporations.

Cyclica announced that it has entered into a licensing agreement with Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany for the use of Ligand Express®, a cloud-based in silico proteome screening platform.

ProteinQure’s partnership with Microsoft Quantum will grant them access to talent in Quantum computing, access to advanced quantum software, tools, and libraries such as the Quantum Development Kit and membership in Microsoft for Startups.

The Government of Canada announced the launch of the New Frontiers in Research Fund, an investment of $275 million over the next five years to support research that is international, interdisciplinary, fast-breaking and high-risk.

The Translational Research Program is looking for Clinician-Innovators for the 2019 Cohort of the Masters of Health Science in Translational Research Program (TRP), a non-traditional graduate degree that will focus teaching how to translate scientific knowledge into tangible benefits for patients and physicians. 

Winterlight's research papers were accepted and presented at the Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), a multi-track machine learning and computational neuroscience conference.

Siemens Healthineers added Innovere Medical's in-bore infotainment system to their MRI portfolio in order to reduce patient anxiety during MRI exams.

MediSeen has launched a free digital health care platform to offer patients access to a variety of health care professionals right from their homes.

Interface Biologics announced a positive pre-IND (Investigational New Drug) meeting with the U.S. FDA for its novel dexamethasone intravitreal implant for the treatment of posterior inflammatory eye diseases. 

The University of Toronto is partnering with Canada’s National Research Council to create a national innovation hub focused on microfluidics – a field in which tiny amounts of fluid are manipulated in small-scale devices to create everything from portable diagnostic “labs” to repair kits for human organs.