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Celebrating Canadian Health Research Excellence: Health Research Foundation Launches New Diversity and Equity in Research Award

Canada is becoming increasingly diverse and, therefore, it’s more important than ever to advance equitable health research that ensures better health outcomes for all Canadians, especially those facing inequities.   As such, the Health Research Foundation (HRF) of Innovative Medicines Canada proudly announced the launch of its new Diversity and Equity in Research Award. This prestigious…

Bioscience Association Manitoba: Virtual Leadership Development Program October Intake is Now Open for Registration

WHO WE ARE Bioscience Association Manitoba (BAM) is a not for profit, membership driven-industry association representing and supporting over 110 companies across the province, ranging from agriculture biotechnology to health biotechnology to clean biotechnology. WHAT WE DO BAM is committed to fostering innovative partnerships and collaborations, workforce development, enhancing research and development, and achieving commercial success in the bioscience sector while…

Know What You Don’t Know: Competency Assessments for Skilled Immigrant Talent in the Biotech Sector

Knowing what you know is valuable when seeking employment. Being able to advocate your abilities and highlight your skills to employers can improve your employability and ultimate success in securing work. However, perhaps even more valuable is the ability to know what you don’t know.  For newcomers to Canada, it can be difficult to know…

Creating a More Resilient Bio-economy

By Rob Henderson Published in Insights Magazine, Spring 2023 Canada’s biotech sector is helping to revolutionize the national economy. Biotech companies and their employees are already impacting sectors ranging from agriculture and healthcare to forestry and fishing.   But despite its growing influence in our society, Canada’s biotech sector is still desperately short of qualified and…

Digital Adoption and E-commerce Development Grants Available from ISED

Technology and the pace of change has accelerated a lot in the last few years. If you are having difficulty keeping up, or want to optimize your business’ digital capacity, consider applying for a Canada Digital Adoption Program (CDAP) Boost Your Business Technology. Boost Your Business Technology can help get your business online, give your…

HealthPartners – How Partnerships in The Bio-economy Make Healthy Workplaces and Canadians

Stories of workforce shortages appear in Canadian media almost daily, and companies in the bio-economy are feeling the pinch acutely. A shortage of qualified workers means that, on average, there are two open job postings in life sciences companies for every candidate. The competition for talent has never been fiercer – and because employees can…

Global Institute for Food Security at USask attracts top talent for engineering biology technology platform

SASKATOON – In an increasingly competitive market for biomanufacturing talent, the Global Institute for Food Security (GIFS) at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) has attracted top science and business professionals to lead its expanding engineering biology technology platform. GIFS is pleased to announce two new members who will lead the innovative engineering biology platform: Dr….

EMILI introduces new digital agriculture WIL resource

EMILI is celebrating Work Integrated Learning Month with the launch of a new web page to help students and employers access the resources they need to take part in work-integrated learning (WIL) within the digital agriculture sector.   “We know that there are many different terms to describe the funding systems that allow us to provide…

University of Toronto Mississauga: Master of Management of Innovation (MMI) Program

The Master of Management of Innovation program attracts students with science, engineering and technology backgrounds. The program prepares students with the knowledge, skills and strategic perspectives required to become the leaders of tomorrow. Our curriculum provides a strong foundation in economic analysis, technology management, business strategy, finance, accounting, marketing and policy. The required academic core…

PEI BioAlliance: New BioAccellerator to grow biomanufacturing capacity for Canada

$50M government investment in major infrastructure in PEI will support Canada’s rapidly expanding bioscience industry Charlottetown, PE – The Governments of Canada and Prince Edward Island today announced a $50 million investment in the BioAccelerator, the largest single investment in economic development infrastructure in PEI history. The Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Minister of Official Languages and…