David O' Neill

Ontario Institute for Cancer Research provides research on the prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. It offers Innovation programs, like cancer stem cell, innovation in target validation, and smarter imaging, Technology programs, like drug discovery, genome technologies, informatics and bio-computing, imaging translation, and tranformative pathology, and Translation programs. The company was founded by Calvin R. Stiller in December 2005 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Toronto Innovation operates as a commercialization agent. Its technologies disclosed span therapeutics, medical devices and diagnostic imaging, information and communications technologies, and advanced manufacturing and clean technologies. The company was founded by Raphael Hofstein in June 2009 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Capital Angel Network operates as an association of individual angel investors and venture capital firms. The firm connects entrepreneurs with angels, investments are made individually and also provides members with opportunities to increase their exposure to quality pre-screened companies seeking capital and gives the Angel investors the opportunity to expand their network of like-minded investors. The company is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Notch Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the development of cell therapies for the treatment of diseases. It offers technology platform, which uses genetically tailored stem cells as a renewable source for creating allogeneic T cell therapies that expand treatment options and deliver cell immunotherapies to patients. The company was founded by Juan Carlos Zuniga-Pflucker and Peter Zandstra in 2018 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Fibrocor Therapeutics LP is a privately held Canadian drug discovery company that is pioneering the use of tissue-specific therapeutics in the field of precision medicine, particularly in fibrosis. The company is based in Toronto, Canada. The company aims to improve the lives of patients by delivering transformative treatments that tackle the root causes of fibrosis, leading to better outcomes and enhanced quality of life. Fibrocor leverages its extensive expertise and one of the largest patient-derived clinically annotated biorepositories of fibrotic tissue to refine and validate therapeutic candidates, ensuring they meet the highest standards of efficacy and safety.

Bedside Clinical Systems, Inc. develops Responses to Illness Severity Quantification (RISQ) framework severity of illness clinical decision support for frontline healthcare professionals, hospital administrators and quality managers. It provides BedsidePEWS, that uses the RISQ framework to empower frontline clinicians who care for hospitalized children. The company was founded by Christopher Parshuram in March 2011 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Centre For Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine supports our partners to develop and commercialize cell and gene therapies and regenerative medicine technologies. Its services include business, technical and facilities. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

QD Solar, Inc. develops photovoltaic cells using colloidal quantum dot technology in Canada. Its quantum dot technology combines silicon solar cells with infrared solar cells in a hybrid architecture to harvest more of the solar spectrum than silicon alone. The company was founded by Sjoerd Hoogland and Edward Hartley Sargent in 2014 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Accel-Rx provides seed and start-up investment services to the new health sciences companies. It engages in leveraging investment support to the research and commercialization centers such as the existing health-related Centers of Excellence for Commercialization and Research (CECRs). The company was founded by Natalie Dakers in 2014 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Encycle Therapeutics, Inc. provides biotechnology services. It offers rapid synthesis of drug-like macrocycles or membrane-permeable nacellins which have enormous potential to target intracellular protein-protein interactions. The company was founded by Andrei Yudin is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Cell Cure Neurosciences Ltd. develops cell therapies for neural degenerative diseases. Its therapeutic cells include retinal pigmented epithelial (RPE) cells and neural progenitor cells. The firm's cells are derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs), which are considered to be the gold standard source of cells for the development of stem cell therapies. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel.

Clinical Trials Ontario operates as a research and development company for various diseases. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

The Ontario Bioscience Industry Organization is a membership organization that engages in strategy, programming, policy development, and advocacy. The non-profit company is based in Toronto, Canada. The Canadian company was founded by Simon Goulet. Maura Campbell has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

SHI Consulting, Inc. operates as a business management consultancy. The company was founded by Borys Chabursky and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Turnstone Biologics, Inc. develops bio-therapeutics for the treatment of cancer. It develops Maraba oncolytic viral immunotherapy, a platform representing a disruptive approach in the treatment of cancer. The company was founded by David Stojdl, Brian D. Lichty and John C. Bell and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

EMD Serono, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical firm. The firm develops recombinant prescription medicines. Its therapies include neurology and immunology, metabolic endocrinology, fertility, and oncology. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Rockland, MA.

Scientus Pharma, Inc. provides biopharmaceutical products extracted from the cannabis plant. The private company is based in Whitby, Canada.

GeneTether, Inc. develops gene editing technologies intended for human therapeutic applications. Its platform is focused on the treatment of rare, monogenic diseases of the kidney and the skin. The company was founded by William James Garner, R. Geoffrey Sargent, and Daren N. Graham on February 12, 2018 and is headquartered on California.

HydRx Farms Ltd. operates as a biopharmaceutical licensed dealer with a focus on developing and commercializing pharmaceutical-grade cannabinoid derivative products. The firm engages in the producing and processing of medical marihuana and other controlled substances under the Health Canada Medical Marihuana Purpose Regulation (MMPR) program and other NCR regulations. The company was founded by Thomas Jefferd and Trevor Folk in 2014 and is headquartered in Whitby, Canada.

Armour Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the development of a new class of anti-hormone therapeutics for the treatment of reproductive tissue-based cancers. The company was founded by Josh Silvertown in 2009 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.