Member Announcements
EnWave Corporation - EnWave Announces Launch of Moon Cheese®
via NutraDried LLP
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Student Biotechnology Network - Career Connect: the Centre for
Drug Research and Development
Date: Tuesday, October 29
Location: CDRD Office, 4th Floor, University of British Columbia
Pharmaceutical Sciences Building, 2405 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver
The Centre for Drug Research and Development will be opening its doors
to talk directly to a select group of students about exciting careers in life
sciences research, biotechnology and drug development. For more
information and to register, please click here
Industry News
Keiretsu Forum Northwest
Date: Friday, November 1
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
The world's largest angel network is coming to Vancouver! If your company
is ready (or nearly ready) for "Series A" financing, consider pitching to the
Keiretsu Forum Northwest. To apply or if you have questions about the
presenting process, contact Keiretsu Forum Northwest Entrepreneur
Director Nate Doran at doran@keiretsuforum.com
OECD Report - ICTs and the Health Sector: Towards Smarter Health
and Wellness Models
The greatest promise for transformational change is in applications that
encourage new, ubiquitous, participatory preventive and personalised
smart models of care. A whole new world of possibilities in using mobiles
and the Internet to address healthcare challenges has opened up. The
potential of mobile devices, services and applications to support selfmanagement, behavioural modification and "participatory healthcare" is
greater than ever before.
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Statistics Canada - Industrial Research and Development: Intentions
2013
Spending on industrial research and development (R&D) is anticipated to
reach $15.6 billion in 2013, down 2.8% from 2012. While industrial R&D
spending increased from 2010 to 2012, it remains below its pre-recession
peak of $16.8 billion in 2007.
Medical and health sciences accounted for 11% of industrial R&D
spending in 2011 at $1.7 billion. Within this major field, clinical ($508
million) and basic medicine ($504 million) led the way, followed by medical
biotechnology ($335 million).
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Huntington Society of Canada BC Chapter Symposium
Date: Saturday, October 26
Location: Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, 950 West 28th
Avenue, Vancouver
This symposium will feature a presentation on genetic testing and the
Huntington disease research process, as well as expert speakers on
genetic counselling and research followed by a tour of the lab at the Centre
for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics. For more information and to
register, please click here
Media Monitoring
British Columbia/Canada
Globe & Mail - Alberta NDP, lobby group challenge province’s planned
overhaul to medical labs
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Globe & Mail - Column: Harper sells consumers down the river with
CETA
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Vancouver Sun - SFU brewing up new science courses
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Vancouver Sun - Canadian national lab scientists work to fine-tune
possible Ebola virus therapy
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Business in Vancouver - Robertson lays out plan for Vancouver's
“innovation economy”
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Maclean’s Magazine - Inside a comatose mind
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Maclean’s Magazine - Rewinding the biological clock
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Maclean’s Magazine - Cultivating mini-brains
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Maclean’s Magazine - Fifty genes: which are critical?
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Canadian Business Magazine - Roche reports 6 per cent sales increase
in first 9 months
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CBC - Homeopathic nosodes 'should not be on the shelf'
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CBC - Pill recall prompts Health Canada to pledge faster notice
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International
New York Times - Op-ed: The myth of the medical device tax
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Puget Sound Business Journal - Seattle firm’s diagnostic tool could
prevent unneeded lung biopsies
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San Francisco Business Times - Biodesy raises $15 million to size up
proteins
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Boston Business Journal - PureTech teams up with foundation on Type
1 diabetes project
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The Economist - Leader: How science goes wrong
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The Economist - Briefing: Trouble at the lab
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The Economist - Bursting HIV’s bubble
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Time Magazine - Early warning: detecting Alzheimer’s in the blood and
brain before memory loss
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Bloomberg Businessweek Magazine - The big bucks in keeping kids
focused
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Forbes Magazine - Why Oreos are as addictive as cocaine to your
brain
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Forbes Magazine - Why is it so hard to predict sales of new drugs?
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Scientific American - Blood protein patterns tell tumor potential
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CBS (60 Minutes) - Boy wonder
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CNN - Air pollution causes cancer, world health authority says
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BBC - Blood test 'detects sepsis in hours'
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FierceBiotech - Aragon begets Seragon as VCs bankroll $30M cancer
drug spinoff
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Medical Device Daily - Device companies to benefit from FTZ: Shanghai
free trade zone opens doors to international investment
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mHealthNews - New mHealth projects make waves in diabetes
management
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MEDCITY News - Industry leaders see opportunities for a new generation
of data analytics in health IT
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MEDCITY News - Cleveland Clinic’s picks for top innovations in 2014: The
bionic eye, gene tests for cancer
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