The Ontario Brain Institute (OBI) announces six new ONtrepreneurs working at the frontier of applied neurotech

By SharpBrains | June 21, 2019

__________ Ontario Brain Insti­tute Deliv­ers Sig­nif­i­cant Boost to Ontario’s Neu­rotech Sec­tor (press release): As part of its 2019 Neu­roTech Ontario Show­case, the Ontario Brain Insti­tute (OBI) today intro­duced the 2019 ONtre­pre­neurs – recip­i­ents of Canada’s sin­gle largest award for ear­­ly-stage brain tech­nol­o­gy entre­pre­neurs … The suc­cess­ful 2019 ONtre­pre­neurs are: Israel Gasperin – Zen­trela, Joshua Lobo…

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Announcing new Sponsor & Partners to support the 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (December 5–7th)

By SharpBrains | October 2, 2017

Proud to announce a new Sum­mit Spon­sor and two new Sum­mit Part­ners help­ing make the 2017 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit a great suc­cess! New Sil­ver Spon­sor EMOTIV is a bioin­for­mat­ics com­pa­ny advanc­ing under­stand­ing of the human brain using elec­troen­cephalog­ra­phy (EEG) with a mis­sion to empow­er indi­vid­u­als and accel­er­ate brain research glob­al­ly. Dur­ing Expo Day, the com­pa­ny will…

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$3 million available for innovative solutions aimed at older adults via The Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI)

By SharpBrains | August 30, 2017

_______ Cen­tre for Aging + Brain Health Inno­va­tion announces up to $3 mil­lion in fund­ing avail­able to sup­port indus­try inno­va­tions in the field of aging and brain health (press release): “The Cen­tre for Aging + Brain Health Inno­va­tion (CABHI) announced today the sec­ond round of fund­ing avail­able through its Indus­try Inno­va­tion Part­ner­ship Pro­gram (I2P2). This…

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Smart brains up in Canada: 11 early-stage neurotech entrepreneurs receive award by The Ontario Brain Institute (OBI)

By SharpBrains | June 22, 2017

— A record 11 Ontario inno­va­tors award­ed $50,000 to become Ontario Neu­rotech Entre­pre­neurs (press release): “The Ontario Brain Insti­tute [OBI] today announced the 2017 win­ners of its pio­neer­ing Ontario Neu­rotech (ONtre­pre­neurs) pro­gram to help ear­­ly-stage entre­pre­neurs take their ideas “from the lab to the mar­ket­place.” Since 2012, the ONtre­pre­neurs pro­gram has award­ed $50,000 to each…

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Michael Meagher (Cogniciti): Let’s transform brain health from “suffer-in-silence” to “let-me-take-control”

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 24, 2014

What is your cur­rent job title and orga­ni­za­tion, and what excites you the most about work­ing there? As the Pres­i­dent of Cog­nic­i­ti, a spin-off from Bay­crest reseach cen­ter and hos­pi­tal, I am excit­ed to help trans­form brain health from a reac­tive, “suf­fer-in-silence” space to a proac­tive, “let-me-take-con­trol-of-my-health” space.

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Brain, Health & Innovation talks in Ontario next week

By SharpBrains | October 22, 2013

Heads-up for Sharp­Brains read­ers up in Cana­da: Alvaro Fer­nan­dez will be giv­ing two talks in Toron­to next Mon­day, Octo­ber 28th. How Can We Invest in Our Brains to Boost Inno­va­tion and Resilience? Hear from a lead­ing expert about the impor­tance of brain health on inno­va­tion, resilience and pro­duc­tiv­i­ty. Our lun­cheon speak­er will share 

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