Funding Opportunities
Funding Available for Clean Technology Projects: SDTC Calls for Statements of Interest for its Sixteenth Round of Funding
Ottawa, Ontario, September 2, 2009 – Clean technology developers from across Canada are invited to submit Statements of Interest to the $550-million SD Tech Fund™, as Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) opens its sixteenth funding round. “Despite the current economic challenges, we are on the cusp of a global cleantech revolution which is driving the [...]
OGI Invests in Prognostic Genetic Test to Improve Stem Cell Transplant Success
Toronto, August 13, 2009 –The Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI), through its Pre-Commercialization Business Development Fund (PBDF), has invested in a research project that is seeking to improve outcomes for hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplants, commonly referred to as bone marrow transplants. Worldwide, some 20,000 HSC transplants are performed each year to treat leukemia, lymphoma, solid [...]
Business Investment Program – DEADLINE July 24, 2009
The Business Investment Program will fund business driven R&D that is undertaken by a team from a recognized publicly funded research institution in Ontario in collaboration with a partnering company. The PROGRAM will help to support the cost of the research at the publicly funded research institution and facilitate the transfer of intellectual property or [...]
OICR Commercialization Program deadline July 15
A reminder that if you’re planning to submit an application to OICR’s Intellectual Property Development and Commercialization Program (IPDCP) the next deadline is July 15, 2009. General information about the Program can be found here: http://www.oicr.on.ca/Commercialization/programs2.htm Before sending a full application OICR recommends you send a pre-submission form which allows us to give you feedback [...]
UPDATE: THE HEALTH TECHNOLOGY COMMERCIALIZATION PROGRAM (HTCP)
JUNE 9, 2009 – HTX – Strengthening the Ontario Medical and Assistive Technologies (MAT) business eco-system with the Health Technology Commercialization Program (HTCP) Thank you for your continuing interest in, and support for, the plan that HTX submitted to the Strategic Opportunities Program of the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation (MRI) on March 27, [...]
CIHR Café Scientifique Funding Opportunity – 2009-10
CIHR launched its Café Scientifique program as an outreach initiative that would provide answers to questions of popular interest to the general public. As a result, over 140 CIHR Café Scientifiques events have been funded to provide educational and informal discussions regarding popular health topics. CIHR Cafés are typically held in bars or cafés, and [...]
SDTC Calls for Applications to its SD Tech Fund
Technology Developers Should Take Advantage of Tremendous Opportunity for Cleantech Ottawa, Ontario, February 25, 2009 – Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), the largest single funder of clean technology in Canada, is calling for Statements of Interests for its fifteenth round of funding. SDTC is a not-for-profit corporation created by the Government of Canada to finance [...]