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CAAP Company: AprilAge Featured in Canadian Business Magazine

When Alexandra Brown set out to create a tool that would show people what they might look like when they get older, she never expected to receive a call from the police.

She wasn’t in any sort of trouble—rather, the police wanted to learn more about her software.
For law enforcement officials, it has proven to be a helpful tool in the search for suspects and missing persons involved in cold cases.

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Ontario Genomics: Genomic Applications Partnership Program (GAPP)

The GAPP promotes the commercialization and translation of genomics-derived technologies. It provides a unique opportunity for User organizations to leverage their R&D investments with public funding. GAPP fosters academic collaborations with Users from industry, government, not-for-profits, and other organizations. Successful projects are driven by the User and focus on areas of opportunity that they have identified.

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Ontario Genomics Report: Think Synthetic Biology in Ontario

Ontario Genomics is pleased to introduce this report on synthetic biology in Ontario.
Biology holds the key to all of humanity’s industrial, environmental and health challenges. What is left for us to do is pinpoint the right solutions from the genomes of millions of living organisms and put them to use in our factories, our hospitals and our homes.

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Call for CTA@ Boston Applications Winter/Spring 2017 Program Placement - Deadline: October 13, 2016

Are you a Canadian IT, life sciences, robotics or foodtech company ready to grow and commercialize in the US market?

The Canadian Technology Accelerator in Boston is an award-winning 4-month immersion program that connects Canadian companies to US clients, strategic partners, and investors! Managed and operated by the Consulate General of Canada in Boston's Trade Commissioner Service team in close partnership with the CENE.

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KalGene gears up to manufacture and test promising Alzheimer’s treatment with NRC, McGill and CIMTEC

October 3, 2016 – Montreal, QC, Toronto and Ottawa, ON ─ KalGene Pharmaceuticals and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) are proud to announce the signature of an agreement worth over $1M to develop, scale up, and transfer the technology needed to manufacture a promising novel Alzheimer’s treatment in Canada that the parties have been co-developing since 2015.

The treatment, a biologic molecule made up of a peptide that fights Alzheimer’s and an antibody-based carrier molecule designed to shuttle the peptide into the brain, is a custom-engineered therapeutic developed at NRC.

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Pre-CAAP Company: TranQool Launches their 28 Day TranQool Challenge

Get Better with TranQool

OBIO Pre-CAAP company TranQool  has recently launched their 28 Day TranQool Challenge, to become a happier you!  This coincides with their visits to Ryerson University, George Brown College,  and OCAD University to bring awareness about mental health to the campus and greater community while supporting the #popthestigma campaign.

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CAAP Company: Brainfx’s New Medical App for Frontline Physicians And Clinicians - Address Critical Problem For ‘Undetected’ Brain Health Affecting Over 50 Million People

Sept 21, 2016 BrainFx Inc., a digital healthcare company, provides a software platform that helps assess the functional health of your brain, focusing on the milder brain dysfunction, while addressing the critical problem of misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis of mild-to-moderate brain disorders and traumatic brain injuries (TBI) affecting over 50 million people in North America with an economic cost of over $100 billion.1   

The company announced today the launch of BrainFx SCREENtm, a 15 minute point-of-care, mobile app for reliable initial pre-screening and early detection of possible mild to moderate brain dysfunctions and TBI’s; developed for frontline physicians and clinicians in the clinic, home or emergency room to deliver timely evaluation. 

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CAAP Company: Shift Health Finalist for Health 2.0's Global Retrospective Awards

Over the past nine years Health 2.0 has showcased and connected with thousands of technologies, companies, innovative thought leaders, and patient activists through our many events and conferences, challenges, code-a-thons, and more.

OBIO® CAAP Company Shift Health was selected as a finalist! 

Visit the Health 2.0 site here, and cast a vote for Shift Health here!

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Synaptive Medical Completes First Installation of Revolutionary Brain Surgery Technology at Mount Sinai Health System in New York

September 20, 2016, New York — Synaptive Medical, a medical device company relentlessly pursuing connections to transform the process of care, has successfully installed their BrightMatter™ technology at Mount Sinai Health System in New York City. Mount Sinai, ranked #12 in the country by U.S. News & World Report for its neurology and neurosurgery program, is the first hospital in the New York Metropolitan area to acquire this revolutionary technology.

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OBIO CEO Gail Garland Provides Opening Remarks at MDCC's Strategic Entry into the U.S. MedTech Market Seminar

OBIO CEO Gail Garland was asked by MDCC to provide opening remarks at their hotly anticipated Strategic Entry into the U.S. MedTech Market for Canadian Firms Seminar.

The Greater MSP and MDCC brought to Toronto 4 world-class experts with backgrounds in finance, reimbursement, talent management and the FDA.  Each shared their insights and tools for success for strategically entering into the U.S. MedTech market.

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New Study Provides Further Evidence that Rna Disruption Assay™ (RDA™) May Be Useful Tool In Predicting Clinical Outcome Of Chemotherapy In Breast Cancer Patients

Further evidence RDA™ may predict clinical outcome of chemotherapy in Journal of the National Cancer Institute

A new study provides further evidence that the Rna Disruption Assay™ (RDA™) may be a useful tool to predict the clinical outcome of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer patients. 

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Pre-CAAP Company: SensOR Medical Featured at U OF T Engineering’s Entrepreneurship Hatchery Demo Day

Demo Day is the culmination of The Hatchery’s intensive summer program, where student teams work with experienced mentors — including executives, lawyers, medical professionals and engineers — to develop their business ideas and competencies. They receive detailed feedback and guidance on everything from patent applications and incorporation to honing their pitches and building prototypes, which they create using 3D printers and other fabrication resources provided by The Hatchery.

The seed funding at stake at Demo Day includes a grand prize of $20,000 and a runner-up prize of $10,000, donated by alumnus Anthony Lacavera (CompE 9T7), founder and chairman of Globalive Holdings and former CEO of WIND Mobile. An additional $2,500 Orozco prize is provided through funds raised by the students themselves.

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Medical Developments International Limited Signs Exclusive Licensing and Distribution Agreement with Purdue Pharma Canada for Penthrox® in Canada

Sept 11, 2016 Medical Developments International Limited ("MDI") (ASX: MVP) is delighted to announce it has reached an exclusive distribution and licensing agreement with Purdue Pharma (Canada) for Penthrox® (Low-Dose Methoxyflurane) Inhaler in Canada. 

Penthrox® is a fast-acting, inhaled, non-narcotic analgesic drug/device combination for emergency relief of moderate to severe pain in conscious adult patients with trauma and associated pain.  

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Self Care Catalysts: App to Support Self-Management for Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC)

September 09, 2016 - Toronto: To celebrate International PBC Day on September 11, 2016, Self Care Catalysts -- a patient intelligence and solutions company -- is announcing its newest self-care mobile app, created to support patients diagnosed with Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC). The team at Self Care Catalysts worked closely with the Canadian PBC Society to create a customized suite of self-care tools to support the total care for PBC, and to empower patients to play an active role in tracking their health story -- so that more can be understood about this rare disease.

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