Award Ceremony to Take Place November 22 Ottawa, ON — A breakthrough treatment for prostate cancer, an AI system that better detects heart disease, a revolutionary technology to clean up dangerous toxins, and a first-of-its-kind app to improve the lives of people with disabilities, are just some of the groundbreaking Canadian innovations that are being […]

By Angie Seth Sara Child is a professor in Indigenous Education at North Island College and is leading the research effort to recover Kwak’wala with her organization Sanyakola Foundation. Establish in 2017, the not-for-profit is currently focusing on Indigenous language revitalization in consultation with Kwakwaka’wakw elders. The project is one of dozens of Canadian research projects highlighted in a […]

NURA Medical’s breakthrough smart arm bracelet technology is changing the way in which emergency room clinicians work with children. As a part of Their World, Our Future, an Innovation Trends video series by Mitacs, NURA Medical’s invention aids the administration of life-saving medicine to kids, all while increasing efficiency and efficacy. Read more… 

Trudeau government set to fulfil campaign promise for version of legendary US innovation agency, amid mixed expert assessment of its wisdom By Paul Basken John Hepburn, CEO of Mitacs, comments on the current state of innovation in Canada noting that instead of focusing on producing more scientific innovation, we should provide a policy of industrial support for Canadian […]

By Angie Seth UBC Okanagan researcher Seyyedarash Haddadi has earned the Mitacs & NRC-IRAP Award for Commercialization for his breakthrough work to create a 99 per cent effective antimicrobial fabric coating that prevents transmission of COVID-19. Watch here…

By Gabriel Friedman Ideon Technologies, a Vancouver-based company recieved government suport worth $5.6 million under Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster to help commercialize a technology that harnesses invisible cosmic rays to stare deep into the earth and identify where the richest mineral and metal deposits are located. Knows as the ‘World’s first Earth X-ray discovery platform’, it could be used […]

By Paul Brothers Winner of Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation-Post Doctoral, Dalhousie Univeristy’s Diz Glithero led a team that developed the world’s first national ocean literacy strategy, positioning Canada as a global leader in the effort to promote and sustain ocean health. Yahoo! News Canada, MSN Canada Watch here…

By Joanne Cochrane Dr. Moneca Sinclaire, a member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation and postdoc fellow at the University of Manitoba, rolled out the first of its kind mobile app that allows #Indigenous communities to control their own data. Dr. Sinclaire was awarded the 2021 Mitacs Awards for Outstanding Innovation — Indigenous. Watch here…

By Felisha Adam McGill University’s Prisca Bustamante was recoognized by the 2021 Mitacs Awards for Outstanding Innovation — PhD for developing the world’s first non-invasive blood screening test for uveal melanoma, the most common eye cancer found in adults. Her novel test is currently being used in a clinical study at the McGill Academic Eye Centre and […]

Dalhousie University researcher Lisa (Diz) Glithero has received the Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation – Post Doctoral for spearheading an all-women team that led to the world’s first national ocean literacy strategy. Glithero, a post-doctoral researcher, led a study to measure people’s understanding of the ocean and will help position Canada as a global leader in the effort to […]

By Gabriela Panza-Beltrandi Raymond Spiteri, a computer science professor at the University of Saskatchewan is recognized for his outstanding effort to facilitate more than 16 research collaborations with industry, and most recently the development of a game-changing virtual shopping avatar that accurately mirrors different body types and uses heat maps to help online shoppers visualize […]

Seyyedarash Haddadi, a Guelph researcher has invented a new antiviral material for face masks designed to thwart transmission of COVID-19. Haddadi pivoted his original research on anticorrosion coatings toward virus prevention when the pandemic hit. He created a new compound that is a first-of-its-kind, low-cost and more than 99 per cent effective antimicrobial fabric coating, the innovation organization Mitacs said in a media […]