Life Sciences in Ottawa – Canada’s Innovation Capital
As Canada’s capital, Ottawa boasts the sophistication, stature and amenities of an international business and technology centre complemented with a reputation for innovation, and education. Connected globally through its business and government centres, diplomatic core and extensive international trade links, Ottawa is home to a breadth of information technology, life science and cleantech companies, a thriving R&D community, and some of the world’s leading service providers. Many of Canada’s federal agencies such as the National Research Council of Canada, Health Canada, Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Public Heath Agency of Canada as well as two world-class universities – affiliated with research hospitals – and two colleges can also be found in Ottawa.
The Ottawa and eastern Ontario life science sector includes incubation and startup support, robust technology transfer programs, state-of-the-art research, abundant talent, and access to all of Canada’s life science regulatory agencies. The combined effect of these assets is to provide both established and emerging companies with access to some of the best resources to grow business.
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Are You on the Map?
Updated: 25 August 2010
If you haven’t seen it already, you should take the time to explore the Ottawa and Eastern Ontario Life Science’s asset map.
Ottawa and Eastern Ontario Life Sciences Asset Map
Updated: 06 July 2010
OCRI has developed an interactive Ottawa and Eastern Ontario Life Sciences Asset map to highlight Ottawa and Eastern Ontario’s Life Sciences strengths and to promote opportunities for partnerships and collaboration both locally and internationally. The asset map provides users with a targeted list of organization names based on the results of two user-selected filters: - [...]
OCRI Life Sciences Programs and Initiatives
Updated: 28 June 2010
OCRI Life Sciences is a division of OCRI, the lead economic development agency for the City of Ottawa. OCRI is a non-profit, partnership whose mission is to lead Ottawa in economic development by connecting business, research, education, government and talent to advance the competitiveness of our knowledge-based industries and institutions, to build wealth and enhance [...]
Ottawa Life Sciences Historical Firsts
Updated: 28 June 2010
2002: The first childhood meningitis vaccine was developed at NRC in Ottawa by Dr. Harry Jennings 1999: The first biosynthetic corneal tissue equivalent was developed at the Ottawa Hospital 1992: The myotonic muscular dystrophy gene was discovered by Dr. Robert Korneluk and Dr. Alex MacKenzie at the CHEO Research Institute 1950: The first pacemaker was [...]
Only one Ottawa firm participating in McGuinty’s trade mission to Israel
Updated: 09 June 2010
May 26, 2010By Lee Greenberg , The Ottawa Citizen Majority of firms, agencies chosen by province from Toronto TEL AVIV – Of 38 companies and organizations taking part in Ontario’s six-day life sciences trade mission to Israel, only two are from Ottawa, and only one is a local business. The low representation appears to point [...]
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