The Canadian Centre for Aging and Brain Health Innovation (CC-ABHI) launches funding program to spark R&D and commercialization initiatives

By SharpBrains | September 12, 2016

———- Up to $500,000 Avail­able Through Cana­di­an Cen­tre for Aging and Brain Health Inno­va­tion’s Spark Pro­gram to Fund New Inno­va­tions (Bay­crest press release): The Cana­di­an Cen­tre for Aging and Brain Health Inno­va­tion (CC-ABHI) announced today the launch of its Spark Pro­gram, an ini­tia­tive designed to pro­vide point-of-care work­ers in the health­care deliv­ery or ser­vice indus­try in…

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Next: Brain modelling platforms, such as Baycrest’s Virtual Brain, to accelerate brain health innovation

By SharpBrains | February 17, 2016

A Vir­tu­al Brain – The Ben­e­fits of Brain Mod­el­ling (Brain Blog­ger): “Brain Blog­ger recent­ly dis­cov­ered that sci­en­tists are poised to deliv­er the first vir­tu­al sim­u­la­tion of the human brain from a tru­ly fas­ci­nat­ing talk by Dr. Randy McIn­tosh, Vicepres­i­dent of Research and Direc­tor of Baycrest’s Rot­man Research Insti­tute, pre­sent­ed at 

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What’s new at Baycrest, Lumosity, BrainBaseline, SharpBrains

By SharpBrains | January 19, 2016

Expo Day: Bay­crest, Lumos­i­ty, Brain­Base­line & Sharp­Brains from Sharp­Brains Dur­ing Expo Day at the The 2015 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit select­ed Sum­mit Spon­sors show­cased their lat­est ini­tia­tives and solu­tions: Bay­crest: Meet the new $100m+ Cana­dian Cen­tre for Aging and Brain Health Inno­va­tion, with Dr. Randy McIntosh, 

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Update: 25 Key References to Navigate the Brain Health and Neurotechnology Revolution

By SharpBrains | November 30, 2015

Time for Sharp­Brains’ Novem­ber e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing 25 of the key ref­er­ence mate­ri­als that par­tic­i­pants at the 2015 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit found most intrigu­ing, in order of dis­cus­sion dur­ing the Sum­mit. Our deep­est grat­i­tude goes to Sum­mit Speak­ers, Spon­sors, and every­one who par­tic­i­pat­ed in our best con­fer­ence to date! Alvaro Fer­nan­dez: 10 neu­rotech­nolo­gies about to trans­form brain enhance­ment and brain…

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Thank you, Summit Speakers, Participants and Sponsors!

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 25, 2015

What a fan­tas­tic, diverse, stim­u­lat­ing, for­ward-look­ing Sum­mit we enjoyed last week. Thank you so much, every­one, for your par­tic­i­pa­tion and con­tri­bu­tions!! Spe­cial thanks go to the orga­ni­za­tions at the lead­ing edge who sup­port­ed this unique event as Spon­sors: Gold Spon­sors The Alzheimer’s Research and Pre­ven­tion Foun­da­tion (ARPF), estab­lished in 1993, is ded­i­cat­ed to reduc­ing the inci­dence of…

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