Ontario’s Bioscience Industry – Transl...

The Ontario Bioscience Industry Organization (OBIO) works to advance the development and growth of a sustainable, commercially – driven, life sciences industry in Ontario. OBIO is a private sector, membership-based organization representing Ontario’s human-health bioscience industry. Key among Ontario’s bioscience strengths are a pipeline of high value, early stage intellectual property and start-up...

Leveraging the $7 Million Fund – Designated ...

During the fall of 2009, with Ontario’s bioscience industry fighting for survival due to an inability to raise capital in the midst of a world-wide economic crisis, OBIO mobilized industry CEOs to take action. With a sense of urgency derived from the need for a plan to ensure the survival of the industry, OBIO organized its first province-wide consultation process ultimately generating a set of recommendations for industry...

The Best Laid Plans – How OBIO™ is looking...

Innovation and Bioscience go hand and hand. It is a symbiotic relationship – both depend on one another. Yet, for Ontario, a province teeming with groundbreaking initiatives in the bioscience field, there is something missing. A broken link between this would-be flourishing industry and reality. True, the recession of 2008 to 2009 hit the industry hard, but the seeds of insufficiency were planted far earlier. For most...