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How VitalHub Corp. Uses iPhones® To Help Health Care

TORONTO, ON (Jan. 25, 2011) —Doctors, nurses and administrators can now access electronic health applications on mobile, hand-held technology through VitalHub Corp..

The unique start-up company was spun-off from mobile health technologies developed Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital, thanks in part to $300,000 in seed financing from MaRS Innovation that will give it a crucial head start in the fiercely competitive mobile IT health sector.

MaRS Innovation invests in the most commercially promising discoveries emerging from its member institutions, which include 16 of Toronto’s leading universities, hospitals (such as Mount Sinai) and research institutions. This funding commitment rounds out a sizeable seed round of financing for VitalHub.

$15M Funding announcement for CCRM

As part of MaRS Innovation’s strategy to bundle technologies, our first initiative focused on regenerative medicine and creating the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM) located in Toronto, Ontario.

We are pleased that these efforts have been recognized by the Government of Canada‘s National Centres of Excellence (NCE) program, which recently announced a $15 million funding grant for CCRM through the Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research.

Xagenic secures $1 million investment in chip-based technology for detecting disease, cancer and infection

MaRS Innovation, HTX, OICR and CCR commit over $1 million to speed commercialization of a new rapid molecular diagnostic technology.

Federal and Provincial Proof of Principle Programs Support Translational Technology Development

TORONTO (August 16, 2010) – MaRS Innovation (MI) is pleased to announce that translational funding to support product development for early-stage technologies from its members has been successfully deployed from federal and provincial sources. At the federal level, three of MI’s commercialization projects have recently received notification of funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Proof of Principle (PoP) program, amounting to approximately $470,000.

Moreover, MI has successfully deployed about $1 million in proof of principle funding received from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation (MRI) through the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE). This provincial program was previously managed by the MI founding commercialization partners in the life and physical sciences, BioDiscovery Toronto (BDT) and Technology Transfer Toronto (TTT). MI is grateful that these organizations laid the foundation for provincial proof of principle funding and looks forward to continuing a successful provincial PoP program.

MaRS Innovation establishes co-managed fund with Johnson & Johnson

MaRS Innovation (MI) has signed a co-funding agreement with the Johnson & Johnson Corporate Office of Science and Technology to capitalize and accelerate the use of Toronto-based life sciences technologies during the early stages of pharmaceutical and medical device development.

The Translational Innovation Partnership Program (TIPP) is the first co-funding agreement of its kind for MI.

CIHR Commercialization Program funds insulin-alternative stem cell technology and nicotine addiction drug therapy

March 2, 2010
Susanne Staer
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)

TORONTO (March 2, 2010) – MaRS Innovation is delighted to announce that two of its commercialization projects – notably an umbilical cord stem cell technology from Mount Sinai Hospital and nicotine…

MaRS Innovation selects Mount Sinai Hospital’s umbilical cord stem cell technology as first commercialization opportunity

TORONTO (June 29, 2009) – MaRS Innovation and the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital are pleased to announce that they have entered into an agreement to collaboratively initiate commercialization of an umbilical cord stem cell technology for potential treatment in cardiovascular disease, diabetes and neurological disorders.

Raphael Hofstein, president and CEO MaRS Innovation — **Dr. Raphael Hofstein**, president and CEO of MaRS Innovation

“With the Toronto area identified as a world-leading cluster in stem cell research, we are extremely excited to have identified this technology as our first commercialization opportunity,” said Dr. Raphael (Rafi) Hofstein, President and CEO of MaRS Innovation.

The technology – invented by Mount Sinai scientists Dr. Ian Rogers and Dr. Robert Casper – offers a proprietary method to create multi-potent stem cells (MPSCs) from human umbilical cord blood. With preclinical data demonstrating efficacy of MPSCs in diabetes, peripheral vascular disease (a complication of diabetes that can lead to amputation) and neurological conditions, the technology has significant potential to address multiple unmet medical needs.

How VitalHub Corp. Uses iPhones® To Help Health Care

$15M Funding announcement for CCRM

Xagenic secures $1 million investment in chip-based technology for detecting disease, cancer and infection

Federal and Provincial Proof of Principle Programs Support Translational Technology Development

MaRS Innovation establishes co-managed fund with Johnson & Johnson

CIHR Commercialization Program funds insulin-alternative stem cell technology and nicotine addiction drug therapy

MaRS Innovation selects Mount Sinai Hospital’s umbilical cord stem cell technology as first commercialization opportunity

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