This project aims to create and deliver an online curriculum which will teach clinicians about the Women-Centred HIV Care (WCHC) Model while help ensure clinicians provide more equitable, trauma-informed, gender-responsive, person-centred care to women and gender-diverse people living with HIV. Women and gender-diverse people living with HIV often face barriers such as stigma, discrimination, or […]

Corrosion—the gradual environmental degradation of metals and alloys—costs Canada billions of dollars annually and threatens infrastructure, transportation, and energy systems. Understanding how materials behave in corrosive environments is complex, depending on factors such as composition, surface structure, and environmental chemistry. Traditional experiments are slow, labor-intensive, and often difficult to reproduce between laboratories. This project aims […]

To improve how diseases are treated, our team has developed a single, versatile platform that supports rapid drug discovery, therapeutic safety testing, and evaluation of cell-based therapies. In the longer term, the same technology will enable the bioengineering of transplantable human organs. Our initial work targets the kidney, pancreas, and lung—organs central to major chronic […]

Picton Mahoney Asset Management (PICTON Investments) was founded in 2004 to provide unique investment solutions to institutional, retail and high net worth investors in Canada and around the world. They are 100% employee-owned and manage approximately $15.3 billion in sub-advisory, pension plan and hedge fund assets on behalf of their clients. The Multi-Strategy Team at […]

One of the fastest growing product categories in the investment industry in the United States is personalized direct indexing. This is a meaningful innovation that allows client specific requirements to be included in the delivery of investment solutions, such as considering concentrated risk positions held by the client, environmental social and governance related preferences, and […]

This project, led by Women’s College Hospital’s Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care (WIHV), will evaluate the implementation of Registered Nurse (RN) prescribing in Ontario. Through focus groups with prescribing and non-prescribing RNs, the project will identify barriers and enablers to adoption, as well as organizational and system-level factors influencing uptake. Findings will […]

Diagnosing neurological conditions like epilepsy is often difficult because clinicians rely on brief, in-clinic brain activity recordings, which may miss crucial events. To solve this, our company, NexusNeuro, is developing a “Neurological Holter Monitor” — a discreet, wearable EEG device that allows for continuous, long-term brain monitoring in a patient’s everyday environment. While we have […]

This project is developing a new type of collagen-based material that can help reattach loose teeth caused by severe gum disease or injury. When gum tissue and bone are damaged, teeth can loosen or fall out because the natural structures that anchor them are destroyed. Current treatments only partially repair this damage and often fail […]

For this proposed project we aim to collaborate with the University of Toronto, Mitacs, and the partnered organization to further develop, refine, and bring to market our novel Contactless Infrared Sleep System (CIRSS). Our novel invention uses advanced specialized infrared imaging to measure key psychophysiological signals including heart rate, heart rate variability, stress, breathing rate, […]

VirtualSLP is an AI-powered platform transforming care for patients with neurologic speech disorders. Conditions such as ALS often cause bulbar impairments—loss of speech, swallowing, and facial expression—that devastate quality of life. Yet clinicians, particularly speech-language pathologists (SLPs), face overwhelming barriers: caseloads as high as 600 patients per year, only 15–20 minutes per visit, and no […]

Older adults have difficulty keeping track of the frequency of their dosage as well as opening the medication packaging. Nonadherence to prescribed medication can lead to hospitalization which increases the burden of care both for the patients and the medication system. Our solution, Pillsette, is a smart medication adherence device that offers a reusable pill […]

Petroleum-based plastics are recalcitrant and pervasive environmental contaminants. Recycling only recovers 9% of post-consumer plastic, the rest is landfilled, incinerated, or discharged into the environment. While most plastic recycling methods convert plastic into lower value products, biocatalytic plastic depolymerization to component monomers then available for resynthesis of valuable products is an attractive alternative. Biocatalyst-based recycling […]