Organization: Princess Margaret Hospital

Swedish firm licenses Canadian software

Stockholm, Sweden-based RaySearch Laboratories AB has licensed research software from Toronto’s Princess Margaret Hospital for use in its deformable image registration technology for use in adaptive radiation therapy. The specialized Morpheus software was licensed through the University Health Network‘s Technology Development and Commercialization Office. Morpheus algorithms allow for image registration based on biomechanical modeling of…

Breast cancer research receives $25-million boost

The fundraising goal of the recently created Institute for Breast Cancer Research at Toronto’s Princess Margaret Hospital received a major boost with a gift of $25 million from Audrey Campbell and her three daughters. The gift by Campbell, the daughter of the late Roy Thompson, will allow the Institute to double its staff and principal…