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InGamer Sports, a MaRS Client, has developed an innovative technology that takes fantasy-league sports players from "being general managers to being head coaches." According to Nic Sulsky, CEO of InGamer, the company launched "in partnership with The Hockey News and the NHLPA May 27 in time for game one of the Stanley Cup Finals -- does so by allowing gamers to interact with the games in real-time, while they are being played, using their computer or mobile device, and to interact with other gamers at the same time through social media apps."

Tom Rand, Lead Cleantech Advisor, MaRS Discovery Distric says " his hotel shows that anyone can cut carbon and make money at the same time."

The Stem Cell Network, a national organization founded by the Canadian government in 2001 that today is more than 100 investigators strong and has received over $60 million in government funding. The Stem Cell Network is helping to create a vibrant and interactive community.

The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) is a new center of excellence. It is moving Ontario to the forefront of discovery and innovation in cancer research

The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) is applying the newest concepts in life sciences-stem cell therapies, personalized medicine-to one of the oldest diseases.

Ontario is known for its groundbreaking science and it now starting to recognition for biotech. MaRS Discovery District is a nonprofit corporation founded in 2000 to help commercialize Ontario's research.

The Premier's Innovation Awards was hosted by the Ontario Centre of Excellence (OCE) in partnership with MaRS Discovery District. Ten people and businesses were selected as the 2010 winners of Ontario's Premier's Innovation Awards.

President Emeritus John Evans (1972-1978) and President Emeritus George Connell (1984-1990) tried out the new benches, just steps away from two oak trees planted 10 years ago in their honour at the University of Toronto. Dr. Evans is the Chair Emeritus of the MaRS Discovery District.

Neil blogs about Doors Open Toronto. MaRS Discovery District participated in Doors Open Toronto.

Dale Zak's presentation from Net Change Week on Mobile Volunteerism. It profiles Extraordinaries, Ushahidi, Samasource, VMConnect, Causeworld - social ventures that are helping volunteers do meaningful work by using technology. Dale is a mobile software developer passionate about social change.

Tom Rand spoke with CBC News in June while taking a break from promoting his book Kick the Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Technologies to Save our World in Europe about why the world should kick its oil addiction - and why he thinks it's possible.

It's Net Change Week at MaRS and tech-biz thinker Don Tapscott is asking us to rethink how, well, just about everything operates. It's a new way of doing things, and Toronto's social innovators like Michelle Hamilton-Page at Toronto Public Health are helping lead the way.

Tom Rand, Practice Lead, Cleantech and Physical Sciences, MaRS Discovery District explains the 'soft' problems and difficulties in deploying green technologies.

"Watching the signs of the times has led Markham's Cognovision to do a global business"

At Net Change Week, June 7 to 11 at MaRS, activists pushed the idea of using the mobile network effect in service of on-the-ground protests rather than for campaigns that exist purely on the web.

Minor mention of Ecology. Design. Synergy. exhibit at MaRS.

In Toronto, Ogilvy Renault and Miller Thomson, both associated with the city's MaRS innovation centre, offer legal services aimed at allowing clean technology companies to compete in the global marketplace.

Toronto is a globally competitive centre for groundbreaking basic and clinical research, with historical and current strengths in areas including new cancer therapeutics, stem cell research and development, genomics, bioinformatics, and the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic tools for every imaginable disease process.

Panelist Robert Smith, chief technology consultant at MaRS Discovery District, said IT needs to contribute to the innovation paradigm within the organization.

Dr. Rafi Hofstein, CEO of MaRS Innovation, was hired to get things done the entrepreneurial way: shrewdly, creatively and as quickly as possible. He's been given five years to turn the vast scientific talent clustered around University Avenue into the seeds of a vibrant biotechnology industry.