OBIO H2BB is now offering top graduate-level, business-trained students and recent graduates, who will expand your business, marketing and/or finance strategies through market research, investor targeting, or conference preparation.

On June 14th, get behind-the-scenes on the recent changes at the FDA and learn more about how regulatory process changes affect your company.

Canada’s premiere innovation and commercialization event for medical device professionals, co-hosted by Starfish Medical and OBIO, Medical Device Playbook 2018 is coming to the MaRS Discovery District on May 8, 2018.

OBIO is working to develop a model that will advance early access to the Ontario market. Critical to the development of this initiative is the ability to quantify the Ontario health science technology pipeline by category and stage of readiness to address the barriers to market access.

Michael Greeley, Co-Founder and General Partner at Flare Capital Partners, an early stage healthcare technology venture firm, and a Founding General Partner Flybridge Capital Partners blogged about Ontario's Health Tech Scene. Michael was a panelist at OBIO's recent Niagara on the Lake Health Sciences Emerging Company Forum, and wrote about his overall impression of the Ontario's emerging health tech companies.

OBIO CAAP® is a unique, industry-led initiative that provides selected high-potential Ontario health science companies with mentoring, strategic guidance and access to an expansive network of health science industry experts and investors to enhance the ability of OBIO CAAP companies to secure financing.

On November 27, 2017, OBIO hosted keynote speaker Dr. Edward Abrahams, President of the Personalized Medicine Coalition, at its 9th Annual Public Meeting at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP and launched OBIO's latest report, "Bridging the Talent Gap"

On November 27th, as part of OBIO's Annual Public Meeting, OBIO will be launching our latest report, Bridging the Talent Gap, on the unique value of OBIO’s Health to Business Bridge (H2BB™) business internship program in 2017.

On October 24th, OBIO's Health Economics Day workshop, hosted in partnership with St. Michael’s Hospital on October 24th, was a great success.

Congratulations to several current and previous OBIO member companies that proudly displayed their cutting edge technologies at the Invictus Games' Accessibility Innovation Showcase. The event featured companies whose technologies help improve the lives o fpeople with disabilities. The Showcase was an official event of the 2017 Invictus Games, and highlighted innovative assistive technologies and devices through interactive exhibits. 

The Invictus Games is an international Paralympic-style multi-sport event, created by Prince Harry of Wales, in which wounded, injured or sick armed services personnel and their associated veterans take part in sports.

Check out the three job descriptions and help us connect the right person with these great opportunities. See the full job descriptions below (contact information is included)

1. Business Development Manager-Pharma CMO

2. Bilingual Patient Reimbursement post-Specialty Pharma

3. Early Adopter Hospital Exec-Admin

Several OBIO member companies were featured in the September Issue of Toronto Life, which covered the companies and their founders who are making Toronto the "New Silicon Valley". Among those profiled were Komodo OpenLabs' Tecla-E, which makes it possible for almost everyone to use a smartphone, as well as MediSeen, which aims to bring back the 'house-call' for patients with non-emergency issues.

Two OBIO companies are one step from the finals of this year's Interface Health Challenge X competition, making it into the Top 25 companies: 

On Monday, at Synaptive Medical's Toronto facility, Hon. Patty Hajdu, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour announced increased funding for the federal government's Student Work-Integrated Learning Program