Mitacs researcher Roger Mah speaks to CBC reporter Jenny Howe on CBC’s Homestretch about winning a Mitacs Entrepreneur Award for his Calgary-based start-up, ZoraMat Solutions.  

 A Saint John-based researcher’s startup is helping get life-saving research to market faster – and it’s getting some national recognition too. Dr. Alli Murugesan is the founder of BioHuntress Therapeutics Inc, an incubator that encourages and supports commercialization of academic health research. Murugesan, who is also a senior scientist at the Reiman cancer research laboratory at the University […]

Hospital food can hardly be called gourmet. For this reason, a young Winnipeg entrepreneur is being awarded for creating a healthier and better-tasting food replacement for patients in hospitals. Erin Goldberg, a 29-year-old entrepreneur and co-founder of ViTal Functional Foods Inc., is being awarded the Social Mitacs Entrepreneur Award in Montreal on Tuesday for her […]

  Cigarette packages are about to get really boring in Canada. Except for those graphic warning labels. New federal legislation will prohibit promotional information and branding, including logos. That means every pack of smokes will look the same, although they will bear different warnings and photos illustrating the health risks of smoking. “When you basically […]

The national non-profit group tasked with linking Canadian academic researchers and the private sector is seeing a spike in the uptake of its internship program, indicating a jump in demand for Canadian startup talent, officials said. And with programs linking the private sector and university research talent increasingly globalized, the group’s work may now play […]

A local scientist has been gathering data with inertial sensors hoping this will help coaches understand exactly where their athletes have room to improve. The sensors measure speed, stroke rate, and position of the athlete as well as pitch, yaw, and roll of the canoe or kayak. Josh Goreham, Dalhousie PhD candidate and sport scientist, […]

Mitacs researcher Josh Goreham, a local sports scientist currently completing his PhD at Dalhousie University, has created a first-of-its-kind, stop-motion-like technology for professional paddlers.

Staunch stares from coaches aren’t the only “eyes” monitoring the women’s canoe and kayak teams as they train on Lake Banook in Dartmouth, N.S., for the World Cup later this month in Hungary. New technology on the boats and athletes keeps a detailed account of every stroke and paddle. Researcher Josh Goreham, a local sports […]

A researcher at Dalhousie University is wiring up Canadian athletes like actors doing motion capture, to help them win Olympic medals. Josh Goreham, working on his PhD in kinesiology, is focusing on canoe and kayak competition at the highest levels. “My research looks at ways that we can use small sensors — inertial sensors, they’re […]

A Halifax researcher has developed technology that could help propel Canadian paddlers to the podium at future summer Olympics. Dalhousie University PhD student Josh Goreham is using sensors and the data they collect to help canoe and kayak athletes and coaches improve performance. The sensors are used to look at the movements of athletes and […]

Mitacs researcher Ali Zareian from U of C talks with Danielle Smith about how are PhDs moving out of the classroom and working in Alberta businesses.  

New research by the University of Alberta will help demystify whether cannabis is a help or a hindrance to our health, in light of its imminent legalization. The study will span more than three years, analyzing medical cannabis-using and non-using patients, and how their interactions with the health-care system compare. “In the absence of clinical […]