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Monday Biotech Deal Review: July 26, 2010

Things were interesting for Forbes Medi-Tech (or at least its creditors), which saw a new bidder emerge for its assets. A few placements and other deals closed, some lower than expected. See who made it through the heat without wilting this week

Grand Challenges Canada to Mobilize $225 Million Over 5 Years For Global Health

A new nonprofit organization called Grand Challenges Canada has been formed to deploy the Canadian government’s $225 million Development Innovation Fund. In a fabulous marriage of theory and practice, Grand Challenges will be run by Peter Singer, who is also the Director of the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health. It also draws on an impressive [...]

PubMed Central Canada Opens for Business: Free Online Access to Life Sciences Journals

The PubMed Central Canada project (noted here last July) is now open for business at http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/ This collaboration — between the NRC’s Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and the U.S. National Library of Medicine — “aims to provide a freely accessible, Canada-based archive of biomedical and health [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: March 8, 2010

A busy week in Canadian deals, with Paladin Labs in a global transaction with SpePharm; M&A activity from therapeutics and consulting companies; the last of the SIFT/SR&ED deals; over $20 million of new offerings from BioSign, Bradmer and YM; government funding for Medicago and Isotechnika; a new standby equity deal from Yorkville for Allon; and the [...]

More Highlights in Canada’s 2010 Federal Budget For Biotech, Venture Capital and Innovation Groups

My first take on the most important bits for Canadian biotech companies and investors: 1) Looks like Section 116 will stay dead this time! 2) Better for research funding, with Genome Canada, NSERC, CIHR, SSHRC coming out much better than last year.  Grease?  Meet squeaky wheel. 3) Is this the end of the SIFT/SR&ED deals?  [...]

CIHR’s Canadian Health Research Awards and Prix Galien Canada Name 2009 Awardees

Awardees were announced today for CIHR’s Canadian Health Research Awards and for the Prix Galien Canada. It’s great to see awards that cross such a broad spectrum: basic and applied research; and molecular and population-based approaches. The CIHR awardees are: Dr. Nahum Sonenberg at McGill for his pioneering work on translation control mechanisms, opening the door [...]

PubMed Central Comes to Canada (or vice-versa?)

If you ever read scientific publications, but you don’t have institutional journal subscriptions, you definitely know and love PubMed Central, the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) online repository of free-access full-text papers. Well, get ready for So You Think You Can Publish Canada PubMed Central Canada! CIHR and the NRC’s Canada Institute for Scientific [...]

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