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The University of Toronto today launched the Banting and Best Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a new pre-incubation hub for discovery, innovation and commercialization which is located across the innovation centre, MaRS Discovery District.

How did a woman who dropped science in high school come to develop and run one of the world's top scientific websites?

"The Graham Boeckh Foundation will be hosting its' first symposium, The Next Frontier in Mental Health: From Research to Patients, to discuss and provide insights on the translation of research into improved patient care and how we can move forward towards greatly improving community mental health practice in this country." The event will be held at the MaRS Centre on April 24, 2012.

2012 Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge Canada (SBCC) is a national biotechnology research competition that inspires students to pursue a career in biotechnology. The event took place at the MaRS Centre on April 19th.

The Graham Boeckh Foundation which focuses on improving the lives of those that suffer from mental illness has appointed James D. Hughes as President. The Graham Boeckh Foundation had a symposium on the "Next Frontier in Mental Health": From Research to Patients" that was held at the MaRS Centre on April 24.

The Canada Gairdner Awards is among the world's most important biomedical research awards and the recipients for 2012 will be announced on March 21st at the MaRS Centre.

The Canada Gairdner Awards, who honours the world's most significant medical research announced the names of the 2012 awardees at the MaRS Centre of March 21, 2012.

Commercialization is a challenge for Canada's research and development sector. MaRS innovation states "Financing continues to be a major obstacle for Canada's emerging young innovators."

The inaugural THINK Conference will take place on April 16th at the Art Gallery of Ontario. The conference will challenge leaders in Ontario's e-Infrastructure, Higher Education, and the K-12 sectors to focus on interconnectedness and collaboration.This conference will include na Idea-generating sessions will be led by key Ontario thought leaders which includes Dr Ilse Treurnicht, CEO of MaRS Discovery District.

CHALLENGE: It's got potential and is ready to be built, but is the science sound? And can a fringe medical treatment have mass appeal?

Lew Lim founder of Mediclights is a MaRS client and is bringing intranasal light therapy to Canada. Peter Adams, a MaRS Life Science and Healthcare IT advisor is working with Lim to commercializing this innovation. They would like to see Toronto as the new hub for interanasal laser research.

"On June 11th, 2012 Dr. Blair Feltmate and Dr. Jason Thistlethwaite launched, Climate Change Adapation: A Priorities Plan for Canada at the MaRS Centre."

The Stephen Hawking Centre is now open at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI) in Ontario, Canada.The Phase II of the MaRS Discovery District construction is just one in a series of recent, major investments that are increasing Ontario's innovation, research and development capacities.

Kim MacKrael, Globe and Mail reporter states, "Steven Blair, an exercise researcher at the University of South Carolina is the first winner of Canada's Bloomberg Manulife Prize for the Promotion of Active Health. " The award of $50, 000 in research was presented to Dr. Blair at the MaRS Centre.

Toronto's McEwen Centre and also known as the MaRS Centre has state of the art research labs where scientists are unlocking the secrets of stem cells and leading a medical revolution. Seamus O'Regan takes you on a tour of a Canadian Original.

Baycrest is a provides healthcare for elderly patients and is the research centre for the development of innovation on aging and brain health. Mary Allen, report from IT in Canada states "Baycrest places a good deal of emphasis on collaboration - with the University of Toronto to meet research goals, with the MaRS Discovery District for commercialization of products to maintain healthy cognitive functioning."

Canadian Researchers from Princess Margaret Cancer Program found a potential new leukemia treatment with an old antibiotic drug. MaRS Innovation partly assisting funding the research.

Dr. Hossein Rahnama, Research & Innovation Lead at Ryerson's Digital Media Zone, is a world authority on location-based context-aware mobile services.  MaRS Innovation  is in the process of working with Dr. Rahnama to spin out a company called Flybits.  Dr. Rahnama is interviewed on Metro Morning.

400 of the world's leading medical and scientific artists, game developers, simulation experts, researchers, animators and innovators will gather in Toronto and will prevail the stereotype of the left-brain/right-brain predominance. The exhibit will also be held at the MaRS Centre from July 23 to August 6, 2012.

In 2010-2011, 77 Canadian tech firms were acquired by foreign companies, mostly American, according to Branham Group, a research firm that closely follows the tech sector.

"VentureStart - which was launched in March by the Mississauga-based Research Innovation Commercialization Centre in partnership with MaRS Discovery District - allows aspiring entrepreneurs to have their ideas evaluated by industry professionals, said program manager Keri Damen." Epilogger is a MaRS client as was ne of the first companies chosen to receive $30,000 in matching funds through the program."