OBIO® in the Community
On August 25, OBIO held Pitches & Pitchers Pitch Competition during which innovative health science companies, engaged in OBIO’s Access to Capital programs (CAAP and Health MINT) competed to win $10K in cash prizes.
On July 7th, OBIO held a Roundtable Discussion with health science companies on Governance. The Roundtable covered two practical aspects of governance - building and managing a BoD. This blog summarizes the key, take-home nuggets from the event.
Last week, OBIO organized and hosted a virtual roundtable discussion with health science companies that participated in the Ontario delegation to the BIO Digital 2020 conference. The interactive discussion allowed participants to share their experiences about adjusting to building companies virtually.
Last week OBIO hosted our newest H2BB trainees for the introductory sessions of our Innovation & Commercialization and Project Management training modules.
The 2020 Niagara Investment Summit brought together a record number of health science industry leaders, entrepreneurs and global investors to meet, learn and be inspired. Summaries and photo galleries are now available.
On April 9, 2018, OBIO hosted Pfizer Global for a workshop and partnering day at ONRamp in the Banting Institute.
OBIO and Blakes hosted OBIO's third annual pre-RESI networking event, connecting high potential companies with global investors. Over 100 international investors, local investors and strategics, as well as executives from high potential Ontario health science companies
OBIO - in partnership with Accel-Rx - hosted the Niagara Health Science Emerging Company Forum, which brought together CEOs and senior executives from high potential Canadian health science companies with senior leadership from American investors and strategics.
On October 24th, OBIO hosted Health Economics Day workshop in partnership with St. Michael’s Hospital.
The workshop took place in the auditorium at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute and featured four sessions: a moderated panel discussion with four panellists, followed by three presentations by three health economics experts.
Recently, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development launched a cross country tour to introduce the nine supercluster proposals that have been shortlisted by the federal government for the Innovation Superclusters Initiative.
Grant Burns, OBIO's Public Affairs and Communications Manager, has listed the 9 proposals and provided commentary and analysis on how they relate to the health technology sector.
On October 2nd, Andrew Hutchinson, External Research & Scouting Lead for Alexion Pharmaceuticals, provided his insights on the strategic partnering process between early stage therapeutic companies and big pharma to the OBIO community.
OBIO's Dr. Klaus Fiebig, VP Strategic Programs, recently attended an insightful workshop on the upcoming regulatory changes affecting the CE mark. Obtaining the CE mark is a "mandatory hurdle" to access the $56B EU market, and the new regulatory changes present an opportunity for medical device companies.
Should these changes adjust your CE mark milestones? Read the Klaus' analysis and decide.
On July 11th, Grant Blevins of FCA Venture Partners in Nashville Tennessee, returned to OBIO via webinar to give his second workshop on digital health. Grant focused on the "Why, When, & How Much" that early stage companies should consider when raising capital.
In the latest issue of Biotechnology Focus, OBIO President and CEO Gail Garland contributed a special report.
Anchor Companies and 'Sticky Capital': A prescription for attracting bioscience investment to Ontario
Gail Garland, President and CEO of OBIO, travelled to San Diego for BIO 2017, one of the largest annual conventions in the biotechnology industry.
Enjoy this weeks blog on Finding the Right Candidate by Sean Peel, H2BB™ Business Development Manager & Ryan Ball, H2BB™ Program Associate.
On May 12th, Grant Blevins and Andrew Bouldin of FCA Venture Partners, of Nashville, Tennessee, gave a workshop on the financing landscape of the digital health industry. FCA Venture Partners provides early stage capital for innovative digital health companies focusing on B2B SaaS.
Enjoy this week's blog by Sean Peel, OBIO's H2BB™ Business Development Manager.
Enjoy Part II of the RESI Recap series authored by OBIO's Klaus Fiebig, VP Strategic Programs
OBIO's own VP Strategic Programs, Klaus Fiebig, shares his impressions and advice garnered from RESI on MaRS last week highlighting some of the trends and sentiments about early stage fundraising.
OBIO kicked off its 2017 Capital Access Advisory Program (CAAP®) on March 29, 2017, hosted at sponsor Norton Rose Fulbright LLP (NRF) Canada, just as Toronto’s first inaugural Health Innovation Week launches
The Ontario Bioscience Innovation Organization Leadership Summit Hosts Top Health Science Minds to Define Future of the Industry
The Ontario Bioscience Innovation Organization Announces New Public Relations & Communications Services Member Benefit
OBIO is pleased to announce a call for applications for the 2017 OBIO Capital Access Advisory Program (CAAP®).
Christine Charette, SVP Strategic Finance, OBIO offers her insights into the premiere conference for MedTech companies.
Thoughts from OBIO's own VP of Strategic Finance, Christine Charette, summarizing the topics relevant to startups at the 2016 AdvaMed Conference.
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Christine Charette, SVP Strategic Finance, OBIO shares her advice on navigating the Health Science Investor in Part 2 of the Combined Conference Insights on RESI Boston & Digital Medicine Connect at BioPharm America September 13,14,15 2016
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Christine Charette, SVP Strategic Finance, OBIO offers her perspective on the RESI conference and BioPharm America.
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The article titled "From Opportunities To ROI – Adopting Innovation In Canada" focusses on the key recommendations of the OBIO report “How Canada Should be Engaging in a $9 Trillion Dollar Health Economy.”
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OBIO is a not-for-profit organization committed to the development of an integrated health innovation economy for the province. Its report, How Canada Should be Engaging in a $9 Trillion Dollar Health Economy, was based on surveys and interviews with 125 CEOs of health science companies around the country. It makes recommendations aimed to ensure Canadians get the economic and patient benefits from being competitive in the global health market.
OBIO initiated the Eastern leg of its Provincewide Tour in Ottawa to promote their recently released report “How Canada Should be Engaging in a $9 Trillion Dollar Health Economy."
Tuesday in a joint announcement the Minister of Innovation Science and Economic Development, Minister of Science, and the Minister of Small Business and Tourism unveiled 6 action areas to build an innovative Canada.
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On Tuesday June 16, 2016 the first steps began towards the development of a Canadian National Inclusive Innovation Agenda. In a joint announcement the Minister of Innovation Science and Economic Development, Minister of Science, and the Minister of Small Business and Tourism unveiled 6 action areas to build an innovative Canada.