Posts Tagged: media coverage
Bristol Myers Squibb Enters Agreement to Acquire Forbius
TIAP portfolio company Forbius announced on August 24, 2020 that they have entered into an acquisition deal with Bristol Myers Squibb. BMS is adding lead TGF-beta asset to its portfolio.
TIAP was one of the earliest investors and partners with Forbius in 2011/12. This is a big win for Forbius CEO Dr. Tikhomirov and the Canadian research and innovation community. Forbius (formerly Formation Biologics) is a clinical-stage protein engineering company that designs and develops biotherapeutics for the treatment of cancer and fibrotic ...
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TIAP Enters Partnership to Establish Venture Capital Fund
TIAP and DAYLI Partners, a leading biotech venture caital firm in South Korea, are collaborating on the creation of a new venture capital fund focused on biotech and health sciences in Canada. The joint investment team will identify & invest in seed stage companies primarily in Ontario with a portion of the fund allocated to Korean companies with high potential to expand to Ontario. Read more here: http://bit.ly/35FH40K
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Amgen Deal in Re$earch Money
In their September 11, 2019 online edition as part of their "Innovation this Week" newsletter, Re$earch Money talked about TIAP's partnership agreement with Amgen:
"A few days after celebrating its 10th anniversary and changing its name to Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners (TIAP), the commercialization organization formerly known as MaRS Innovation announced a new collaboration with the biotechnology company Amgen. The aim of the collaboration is to identify and jointly fund disruptive technologies derived from discovery research conducted in Toronto and managed by ...
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TIAP Announces Strategic Partnership with Amgen
Toronto, Ontario, Sept. 09, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners (TIAP – formerly MaRS Innovation), a leading member-based Canadian provider of venture builder expertise in the early-stage health science field, is pleased to announce the establishment of a collaboration with Amgen, a global leader in the biotechnology industry.
Under the terms of the agreement, Amgen and TIAP will jointly fund nascent technologies managed by TIAP on behalf of its Toronto-based member institutions. The two organizations will collaborate in a proactive ...
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LAB150 adds two projects: Cystic Fibrosis and Respiratory Syncytial Virus
Toronto, ON, Feb. 27, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MaRS Innovation announced today the concurrent launch of two new LAB150 projects. These projects build on breakthroughs in disease-focused scientific research by prominent teams at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and the University of Toronto, both of which are Members of MaRS Innovation. LAB150 is a partnership between MaRS Innovation and Evotec AG with the goal of accelerating academic research towards commercial outcomes by providing funding and access to pharmaceutically validated platforms ...
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Toronto’s QD Solar sole Canadian among five winners of solar technology challenge
QD Solar, a Canadian start-up company, is one of the five winners of the SunRISE TechBridge Challenge. They will receive support from Greentown Launch acceleration and DSM Partnership/Investment to help move forward in developing their technology and bring it closer to market.
QD Solar is developing the next generation photovoltaic cells using cutting-edge colloidal quantum dot technology. QD Solar’s proprietary quantum dot-based solar cells use nano-engineered, low-cost materials that can absorb this otherwise wasted infrared light. The world-leading underlying solar technology was developed in ...
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Triphase announces positive results of phase 1 trial of Marizomib and Bevacizumab in malignant glioma
TORONTO and SAN DIEGO (June 4, 2016) — Triphase Accelerator Corporation, a private drug development company dedicated to advancing novel compounds through Phase 2 proof-of-concept, today announced positive results from its Phase 1 proof-of-concept study evaluating marizomib in combination with bevacizumab in patients with WHO grade IV malignant glioma.
These results were presented in a poster session during the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting in Chicago on June 4, 2016.
“These results confirm our original hypothesis that this combination therapy is ...
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The BBC features Flybits and Ryerson University’s Digital Media Zone
"With massive amounts of cash being pumped into development by Google, Facebook, Microsoft and context-aware startups such as Flybits, the PA in everybody’s pocket could soon be a reality," Nick Clayton wrote in BBC Capital about virtual personal assistants (Siri, Cortana, Alexa, etc.).
Flybits was founded by Hossein Rahnama, Research and Innovation Director at Ryerson University Digital Media Zone in partnership with MaRS Innovation. Flybits is a software solution that makes it simple to personalize an app's behaviour. Digital marketers can use this information to then ...
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Israel’s BioLineRx and Canada’s MaRS Innovation sign framework collaboration agreement
Agreement signed as part of Ontario's life sciences trade mission to Israel
TEL AVIV and TORONTO (May 16, 2016) – BioLineRx Ltd. a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to identifying, in-licensing and developing promising therapeutic candidates, announced today that it has signed a framework collaboration agreement with MaRS Innovation, the commercialization agent for 15 of Toronto's top academic institutions.
Under the terms of the agreement, BioLineRx intends to review innovative projects and assets of start-up companies originating from MaRS Innovation's members to identify in-licensing, co-development or other ...
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Johnson & Johnson Innovation Opens JLABS @ Toronto
TORONTO (May 11, 2016) – Johnson & Johnson Innovation LLC, today announced the opening of JLABS @ Toronto, a new 40,000-square-foot life sciences incubator, providing entrepreneurs shared lab space and offices, modular lab suites and access to scientific, industry and capital funding experts as they work to build important and successful early-stage companies. The new JLABS facility can accommodate up to 50 start-ups and opens with 22 companies that represent a range of sectors including therapeutics, medical devices and consumer health ...
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