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The nutritional supplements Boost and Ensure are no doubt familiar to anyone who has had to look after ailing, elderly parents, or other family members who suffer from a loss of appetite related to their illnesses or treatments. Erin Goldberg has had first-hand experience being gravely ill, and being nauseous and lacking any appetite due […]

Innovation is happening all around us, and the sports industry is no exception. As tech continues to take over the planet, here at ITBusiness.ca, we’ve been exploring how tech intersects with sports and health and fitness. We recently had a chance to speak with Joshua Goreham, a Dalhousie University PhD candidate and sports scientist studying […]

Montreal, QC—Seven up-and-coming Canadian researchers-turned-entrepreneurs received recognition, and a total of $25,000, for their groundbreaking industry contributions that are helping to improve lives in Canada and globally at the 2018 Mitacs Entrepreneur Awards. The awards celebrate start-up companies founded by outstanding former Mitacs interns, postdoctoral fellows, and training participants, who have gone to lead their […]

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 […]

 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 […]

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.  

Vancouver, BC — Mitacs, a national not-for-profit research and training organization, and the European Commission, announce a new partnership to expand research opportunities for Canadian and European graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who receive funding through the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program. Through the partnership, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) and Research and Innovation Staff Exchanges (RISE) […]

Vancouver, BC — During Universities Canada’s mission to Mexico, Mitacs, a Canadian not-for-profit research and training organization, renewed and expanded an agreement with the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM), a private, multi-campus university based in Monterrey, Mexico. The partnership builds on Mitacs and ITESM’s long-standing relationship and will see up to 20 Canadian […]

Calgary, Alberta — One year after the University of British Columbia released a report indicating only one in three Canadian doctoral graduates end up in traditional academic positions, a growing number of PhDs in Alberta are finding fulfilling careers in industry — including unexpected businesses. “Statistics show roughly 75 per cent of PhDs do not land […]

  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, […]