Health Insight
Life Sciences 2023
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Why Advancing IDEA Is Good for Canada’s Life Sciences Sector
To enhance Canada’s life sciences sector, embedding inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA) is crucial for fostering innovation and attracting talent. Canada currently ranks among the top hubs in the world for health and biosciences. Our world-class universities and research hospitals have led to breakthrough discoveries and trained a highly educated workforce. Yet Canada is...
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Novartis Invests in the Montréal Health Innovation District to Foster a New Wave of Healthcare Partnerships
The launch of Novartis’ new Montréal head office heralds a renewed commitment to collaboration and innovation within Canada. Novartis Canada is on a mission to reimagine medicine to improve and extend the lives of millions of patients across the country. Using innovative science and technology, the life sciences leader is striving to give renewed hope...
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Amylyx Pharmaceuticals Puts Canadians Living with ALS First
Reflections on progress and urgency from a ‘made in Canada’ biotech focused on progressive neurodegenerative diseases. Time is the enemy of people living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease. ALS is a relentlessly progressive neurodegenerative disease caused by motor neuron death in the brain and spinal cord. A diagnosis...
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Celebrating 10 Years of AbbVie Leadership
AbbVie celebrating 10 years of making a remarkable impact. AbbVie’s 10th anniversary marks an important milestone. In Canada, over the past decade, the independent biopharmaceutical company has gone from ranking #14 to #3, launching 44 new medications or indications and more than doubling its employee base (now totalling more than 1,100 professionals). In the past...
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How Ontario Is Leading the Way in the Medical Isotopes Field
Ontario-based Laurentis Energy Partners is an innovative leader and producer of medical isotopes, which are transforming global health care. What do nuclear power and health care have in common? A lot, actually. Medical isotopes generated from Ontario’s CANDU nuclear power plants help people in Canada and globally to enjoy a healthier and safer quality of...
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How McMaster Innovation Park Is Advancing Cell and Gene Therapy
McMaster Innovation Park is fostering an innovation ecosystem for life sciences and biotech researchers, entrepreneurs, and ventures. The cell and gene therapy (CGT) sector in Ontario is rapidly gaining momentum with the transformative potential of CGT for healthcare and medicine and McMaster Innovation Park (MIP), the pulse of Hamilton’s life sciences ecosystem, is accelerating the...
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Putting people at the core of cancer research to drive life-changing progress
Over the last 30 years, thanks in large part to research, tremendous progress has been made against many cancers. Today, 64 per cent of people diagnosed with cancer in Canada are expected to survive five years or more compared to only 25 per cent in the 1940s. However, some cancers continue to have incredibly low...
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Cell and Gene Therapy — Canada’s Chance To Be a Global Leader in Life Sciences
Canada is well on the way to becoming a global leader in the commercialization, investment, and manufacturing of cell and gene therapies. Canada’s scientific community has a rich legacy of success. Those of us in the regenerative medicine field are especially proud of Drs. James Till and Ernest McCulloch, whose discovery of the stem cell in...
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Access to Immunotherapy for Hard-to-Treat Lymphoma Improving
Now widely available across Canada as a third-line treatment for B-cell lymphomas, CAR T focus now on second-line treatment. Researchers in cancer medicine have been studying immunotherapies for decades. One form of immunotherapy is stem cell transplants, which have been the standard of care in many types of blood cancers, such as high-risk leukemias, myeloma,...
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Improving Canadian Rare Disease Patients’ Access to Treatment
Bayshore Specialty Rx is on a mission to help rare disease patients across Canada gain access to the treatments they need. Reducing the barriers to therapeutic access for rare disease communities People living with a rare disease face several challenges over their lifetime; delays in diagnosis for months or years after symptom onset, specialists can...