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Award-winning entrepreneur training program celebrates inaugural year and expands

Mitacs and SFU’s Invention to Innovation (i2I) helps graduate researchers across Canada develop an entrepreneurial mindset and become champions of innovation Vancouver, BC — Mitacs and the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University (SFU Beedie) have renewed a partnership to offer the Invention to Innovation (i2I) program for graduate students. Over seven months, […]

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Canada and Colombia strengthen research and innovation ties

Memorandums of understanding support research collaboration and mobility Vancouver, BC — Canadian and Colombian higher education organizations signed two important agreements today which will improve student mobility and heighten research collaboration between the two countries. Higher education and research partnerships are a critical part of the Canada-Colombia bilateral relationship. The agreement between Universities Canada and […]

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Halifax Today: Local entrepreneur’s company aims to reduce seafood waste

Sheamus MacDonald has been virtually presented with the Mitacs Global Impact Entrepreneur Award A local entrepreneur has received a prestigious award. Sheamus MacDonald has been presented with the Mitacs Global Impact Entrepreneur Award. His start-up, Dartmouth-based Sedna Technologies, has launched a high-tech mobile system that aims to reduce seafood waste by following the catch through all […]

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Yahoo News: PhD candidate’s invention was called ‘bulls—t’, but can now detect early signs of COVID-19

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, 34-year-old Azadeh Dastmalchi found a new function for her existing work on a medical-grade smartwatch to detect and monitor for early virus symptoms. Dastmalchi’s start-up, Montreal-based VitalTracer, and its product the VTLAB smartwatch combines biosensors and artificial intelligence to measure human vital signs, blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory […]

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Ottawa Business Journal: U of O PhD student’s smartwatch a timely innovation in COVID fight

Azadeh Dastmalchi’s search for a user-friendly blood pressure test triggered a decade-long research effort that ultimately spawned a groundbreaking wearable device and led the University of Ottawa PhD candidate to launch her own company. On Wednesday, the biomedical engineering student and budding entrepreneur earned some well-deserved time in the spotlight. Dastmalchi received the Mitacs Social […]

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Canadian start-ups recognized with Mitacs’s Entrepreneur Awards

COVID-19 economic recovery depends upon innovation and small businesses Vancouver, BC — Mitacs recognizes five up-and-coming researchers-turned-entrepreneurs for their groundbreaking innovations that are helping to propel Canada’s economy forward — and ultimately, improve the lives of Canadians — amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Mitacs Entrepreneur Awards celebrate start-up companies founded by outstanding former Mitacs interns, […]

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