OBI Joins Provincial Partnership to Accelerate Life Sciences Innovation

4 décembre 2025

The Ontario Centre of Innovation (OCI) has formalized a landmark Memorandum of Understanding with a consortium of Ontario's leading life sciences commercialization organizations—including OBI—to expand support for early-stage health innovators and strengthen co-investment pathways across the province.

"Ontario's Life Sciences Innovation Fund is helping high-potential companies turn breakthrough ideas into real-world impact," said Claudia Krywiak, President and CEO, Ontario Centre of Innovation. "This partnership unites the province's most influential commercialization organizations behind a shared mission: supporting founders, catalyzing investment, and ensuring Ontario discoveries scale globally while creating economic and health benefits here at home."

The collaboration will expand co-investment pathways, accelerate the path from discovery to market, strengthen support for early-stage health innovators, and help emerging technologies scale more effectively across the province.

"At OBI, we've seen how an integrated team science approach accelerates brain health innovation," said Dr. Tom Mikkelsen, President and Scientific Director of the Ontario Brain Institute. "This partnership with OCI and Ontario's leading organizations strengthens the collaborative infrastructure needed to turn discoveries into solutions that improve lives and further cement Ontario's leadership in brain health research, commercialization, and care."

Through this coordinated agreement, partners will grow Ontario's biohealth economy while promoting emerging companies aligned with their mandates and identifying opportunities for co-investment in qualified ventures.

Read the full press release: https://www.oc-innovation.ca/m...

Photo courtesy of OCI.
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