Organization: The Hospital for Sick Children

The Short Report – March 9, 2022: Sunsetting the Collaborative Health Research Projects program, $195M to support B.C. health research, Ontario’s first Genome Data Science fellowships, Lululemon founder invests $100M into muscle disorder research, and more

CIHR and NSERC terminate Collaborative Health Research Projects program, BC’s government invests in life sciences to boost health research, Ontario Genomics and CANSSI Ontario award inaugural postdoctoral fellowships in genome data science, Lululemon founder gives $100 million for muscle disorder research, a strategy to make Manitoba a leader in sustainable protein production, and more.

The Short Report, April 28, 2020: Alarming drop in donations for health charities; Health Canada approves COVID-19 clinical trial; and more

Health charities are seeing an “alarming” drop in donations, which they warn will compromise the health of Canadians living with chronic disease. HealthPartners, a collaboration of 16 Canadian charities, released the findings in its report, The Impact of COVID-19 on our Most Vulnerable Canadians. In response to declining donations, the report says health charities have…

TCAG receives $5.1 million in Genome Canada funding

The Centre for Applied Genomics (TCAG) has been awarded $5.1 million in Genome Canada’s Science and Technology Innovation Centre competition. The funding was made through the Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) and is one of several awards made by Genome Canada, which is allowing recipient institutions to make their own announcements. The size of the competition…

Ontario Genomics Institute launches two new programs

The Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) has launched two new programs designed to boost the participation of provincial genomics researchers in major international collaborations. The Genomics Technology Seeding program has already signed its first technology assessment agreement with The Hospital for Sick Children‘s Centre for Applied Genomics. If successful, the technology for generating specialized genotyping data…