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UHN is Canada’s largest and leading research hospital, consisting of six research institutes located within the hospital system comprised of Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto General, Toronto Rehabilitation, Toronto Western and West Park hospitals and the Michener Institute of Education. UHN is affiliated with the University of Toronto and is the largest medical research and innovation driver in the greater Toronto region. Toronto General Hospital was named among the world’s Top 5 Hospitals by Newsweek magazine for five straight years (2023) – the only Canadian hospital in this tier –and is currently the #3 hospital in the world. UHN also ranks first on Canada’s Top 40 Research Hospitals list compiled by Research Infosource and has consistently ranked at the top since 2011. The scope of research and complexity of cases at UHN have made us a national and international source for discovery, education and patient care. Its research is world-renowned and includes major research in cardiology, transplantation, neurosciences, oncology, surgical innovation, infectious diseases, genomic medicine and rehabilitation medicine.

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Event details

Date: June 3 - 6, 2024

Event contact

Patricia Cosgrove
Area Director
USA: Life Sciences

Participants

42 in total
  • 20/20 OptimEyes Technologies
    20/20 OptimEyes Technologies has developed a mucoadhesive drug delivery platform technology that allows for improved…
  • Altis Labs Inc.
    Altis Labs is a computational imaging company advancing precision medicine. The company believes that medical imaging…
  • Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM)
    CCRM is a Canadian public-private partnership established with seed funding by the Government of…
  • City of Brampton
    The City of Brampton Economic Development Office provides business connections, site selection services and access to…
  • City of Mississauga, Economic Development Office
    Mississauga's life sciences sector is a thriving hub of innovation and growth. With a highly skilled workforce and…
  • Clinical Trials Ontario
    Clinical Trials Ontario (CTO) is a leading organization in the clinical trials community dedicated to…
  • Covar Pharmaceuticals Inc.
    Covar Pharmaceuticals delivers customized services for pharmaceutical development of new or existing drugs, novel…
  • Custom Biologics
    Custom Biologics provides regulatory compliant potency testing and assay services for all phases of biotherapeutic drug…
  • Esphera SynBio
    Esphera SynBio is a pre-clinical company developing the next generation of exosome-based therapeutics. Their…
  • GL Chemtec International Ltd.
    For over two decades, Toronto area-based GL CHEMTEC has been dedicated to delivering innovative solutions…
  • HDAX Therapeutics
    HDAX Therapeutics is pioneering best-in-class therapeutics for neurological and cardiovascular diseases. Leveraging its…
  • ImmunoBiochem Corporation
    ImmunoBiochem is an innovative biopharmaceutical company on a mission to develop novel bioconjugate therapeutics, such…
  • Interaxon Inc. (Muse)
    Muse is pioneering brain health through its industry-leading EEG…
  • Invest in Hamilton
    Hamilton’s Economic Development Office (Invest in Hamilton) is the central point of contact for business assistance,…
  • JN Nova Pharma Inc.
    JN Nova Pharma is developing novel therapeutics to address a particular group of Long COVID patients, who…
  • Kingston Economic Development Corporation
    Kingston Economic Development's aim is to support life sciences companies looking to enter the Canadian market and…
  • Life Sciences Ontario
    Life Sciences Ontario is a not-for-profit organization that represents and promotes Ontario’s vibrant and diverse life…
  • Lumerate Inc.
    Lumerate is a Toronto-based software company specializing in intelligence about the drug development sector and other…
  • Mediphage
    Mediphage has developed a proprietary and scalable E. coli-based manufacturing process for the production of ministring…
  • Noa Therapeutics
    Noa Therapeutics is a preclinical biotech company pioneering the development of homeostatic modulating small molecules…
  • Nucro-Technics
    Nucro-Technics is a full-service Contract Support Organization that specializes in the conduct of both…
  • Omnium Global Consulting Inc.
    Omnium Global’s vision is to accelerate timelines to market for an impact on global health by helping companies beat…
  • Ontario BioScience Innovation Organization (OBIO)
    OBIO (Ontario BioScience Innovation Organization) is a Canadian life science accelerator supporting…
  • Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
    OICR is Ontario’s Cancer Research Institute. It brings together people from across the province and around the…
  • Oxford Cancer Analytics Ltd.
    Oxford Cancer Analytics (OXcan) is creating a paradigm shift in early disease detection, monitoring, and…
  • panCELLa Inc.
    panCELLa and Pluristyx Company, is an advanced therapy tools and services company whose primary mission is to help…
  • Pattern Pharma Inc.
    Pattern Pharma’s patent-protected immunotherapeutic, PPI-100, mobilizes innate immunity by targeting…
  • PlantForm Corporation
    PlantForm develops and manufactures proteins, antibodies, and vaccines at low cost using its green, plant-based,…
  • PolyAnalytik, Inc.
    PolyAnalytik, Inc. is a CRO laboratory that specializes in…
  • ProteinQure Inc.
    ProteinQure has built the best computational platform for designing peptides for extra-cellular targets. Its platform…
  • PurMinds NeuroPharma
    PurMinds is a neuro-medicine development and API supply company…
  • QurCan Therapeutics Inc.
    QurCan Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that has developed the next-generation nanoparticle for safer and tissue…
  • Specific Biologics Inc.
    Specific Biologics’ mission is to develop therapeutics to treat or cure disease through precision gene editing. Its…
  • SpinUp at University of Toronto Mississauga
    SpinUp is the University of Toronto’s wet lab-based, early-stage startup incubator. Located in Mississauga, SpinUp…
  • Stiris Research Inc.
    Stiris is a clinical trial management company conducting Phase I-IIIB trials for biotech and biopharma. Located in…
  • Synapse Life Science Consortium
    The Synapse Consortium represents Canada’s leading health research and education cluster, including more than 34,000…
  • TheraVac Biologics
    TheraVac Biologics is developing vaccines and immunotherapies for diseases caused by misfolded protein aggregates and/…
  • TIAP – Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners
    Since 2008, TIAP has been building relationships with Toronto’s top research institutions to identify the…
  • Transpharmation Ltd.
    Transpharmation is a contract research organisation led by scientists. Recognised by drug developers worldwide for…
  • University Health Network (UHN)
    UHN is Canada’s largest and leading research hospital, consisting of six research institutes located…
  • VeriLuce Therapeutics Inc.
    VeriLuce Therapeutics is an R&D/early-stage drug development company currently developing novel small molecules…
  • Virica Biotech
    Virica is a viral vector enhancer company. It has pioneered a new enhancer category called Viral Sensitizers (VSE…