Bioenterprise Canada has expanded its footprint in Manitoba by welcoming two new partners to Canada’s Food & Agri-Tech Engine. The University of Manitoba (UM), home of the Richardson Centre for Food Technology and Research, and Bioscience Association Manitoba (BAM) have both become Knowledge & Development Partners in the Engine. “We are excited to expand our…
The Boost Your Business Technology grant helps small and medium-sized businesses adopt new digital technologies. Eligible businesses can: • Use a free digital assessment tool to evaluate your business’s digital readiness. • Get a grant of up to $15,000 to consult a digital expert and develop a digital adoption plan for your business. • Get…
Charlottetown, PE – The Canadian Alliance for Skills and Training in Life Sciences (CASTL) today officially opened their new CASTL Biomanufacturing Training Facility located in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The new training facility contains state-of-the-art pilot-scale bioprocessing equipment that will allow employees to gain practical skills that are immediately transferable to process scale-up and clean…
IMV Inc. is a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company based in Dartmouth, NS and Boston, MA. IMV is advancing a portfolio of immune-educating therapies based on its novel DPX® platform to treat solid and hematologic cancers without the well-known toxicities typically associated with cancer therapies. By generating educated immune cells that can elicit a specific, robust and sustained…
Over the last two decades, significant cancer research and therapy development has been focused on the immune system’s response, with cell therapies offering transformational benefits over existing standards of care. Where chemotherapies act on the cancerous tumours themselves, immunotherapies focus on harnessing immune cells to identify and destroy cancer cells directly. Today’s challenge for…
Providence Therapeutics (“Providence”) was founded as Cancer research company and we would like to recognize that September is Childhood Cancer Awareness month, a time to educate and bring awareness to pediatric cancer. Childhood cancer is different from cancers that develop later in life and 1 in 285 children will be diagnosed with cancer before the…
Master of Science in Biotechnology Set to Launch at Toronto Campus The future of biotechnology holds the keys to solving some of today’s biggest problems, such as developing life-saving vaccines and curing diseases. We spoke to Hazel Sive and Jared R. Auclair from Northeastern’s College of Science about how students in the Master of Science in Biotechnology program are ready to…
Cytophage receives funding for collaborative research at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center WINNIPEG, Manitoba — June 30, 2022 – Canadian biotech company Cytophage Technologies Inc. has been awarded $250,000 USD in non-dilutive funding to develop biological solutions for plant bacterial challenges at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri, the world’s…
Toronto Metropolitan University’s Faculty of Arts is introducing co-op opportunities for students in four programs Preparing for professional success is a top priority for most university students. That’s why the Faculty of Arts and Toronto Metropolitan University’s Career Co-op & Student Success Centre have partnered to expand co-operative education to students enrolled in English, politics…
BioCanRx: Making an impact in experiential learning through Carleton University Co-operative Education Carleton University’s Co-operative Education program has helped place students with employers in science since the co-op program was established 34 years ago. Gaining experience through work-integrated learning has proven to prepare students with the necessary skills to help launch them into their careers…
