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LIFE
Sciences
CANADIAN INNOVATION
AND GLOBAL LEADERSHIP
PROMOTING ECONOMIC
STRENGTHS TO MEET
WITH PURPOSE IN CANADA
#meetincanada BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA 1
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— Virginie De Visscher, Director of Business Development
Economic Sectors, Business Events Canada
TRILLION
TOTAL GDP
SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA
CANADAʼS CLUSTER EXPERTISE
The Quebec-Ontario corridor The Montréal InVivo life sciences
Canada offers is North America's second-largest and health technologies cluster is
businesses the in terms of the number of life sciences comprised of more than:
MOST EDUCATED companies, and represents:
talent pool among • More than 1,100 companies 11
OECD countries • 66,000 qualified people POST-SECONDARY
INSTITUTIONS
• 490 undergraduate and graduate
programs in biological and
biomedicine sciences
620
ORGANIZATIONS
• The majority of Canadian sales
and exports in life sciences 41,000
• Access to the majority of SKILLED WORKERS
Canadian venture capital
1st in Canada for number
of research centres and total
university research funding
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BUSINESS EVENTS DRIVE ECONOMIES AND INNOVATION Business Events Canada is focused on attracting conferences and business events from across the key economic sectors in which Canada excels. With more than $918 million in active R&D, the life sciences sector is a key driver of Canada’s economy and one of the country’s top priority economic sectors. By focusing on the whole By converging diverse, creative and commercial ecosystem, aligning Canada’s interests across industries, global life sciences-focused key economic drivers, conferences have the power to transform communities academia, vibrant destinations with their subsequent legacy impacts, also known as and conference infrastructure, “beyond tourism benefits.” More than a marketing tool Business Events Canada to attract conferences, Business Events Canada's creates a recipe for innovative, priority sector strategy is a long-range economic authentic and engaging development strategy with far-reaching benefits that conferences and events. will last long after each conference has concluded. #meetincanada BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA 3
CANADA’S
LIFE SCIENCES CENTRES
VANCOUVER
• Cardiology EDMONTON
• Dermatology TORONTO
• Cardiology SASKATOON
• Genomics
• Diabetes • Biopharmaceuticals
• Infectious Diseases • Biotechnology Research
• Health Training & • Health Research
• Metabolic Diseases Simulation • Cyclotron Sciences • Imaging & Medical Devices
• Nanomedicines • Medical Imaging • Reproductive Health • Neuroscience
• Neuroscience • Medical Technologies/ • Patient-oriented Medicine • Oncology
• Oncology Biotechnology • Synchrotron • Pharmaceuticals
• Patient-oriented Medicine • Oncology • Tele-robotics Health • Regenerative Medicine/
• Pharmaceuticals • Organ Transplantation • Vaccines and Stem cells
• Regenerative Medicine • Virology Infectious Diseases
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OTTAWA MONTRÉAL QUÉBEC CITY HALIFAX
• Biopharmaceuticals • Biotechnology • Biopharmaceuticals • Medical Technologies
• Cardiology • Cardiology • Cosmeceuticals • Digital Health
• E-Health • Contractual Research/ • E-Health • Pharmaceuticals &
• Medical Devices Medical Technology • Medical Technologies Vaccines
• Oncology • Endocrinology • Nutraceuticals • BioProducts
• Immunology • Pharmaceuticals • Natural Health Products
• Neurology • Vaccines & Diagnostics
• Oncology
• Pharmaceuticals
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LIFE
SCIENCES
INNOVATION IS IN OUR DNA
Canada’s life sciences sector boasts a solid track record of health-care
innovation characterized by cutting-edge research, innovative thinking
and cross-industry collaboration.
$918.2 NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
OF CANADA CAPABILITIES
MILLION
TOTAL R&D BY PATENTEES
BIOLOGICS MEDICAL DEVICES
THE NUMBER OF R&D
PATENTEES INCREASED
5.7% VACCINES IMPLANTABLE
BIOMATERIALS
COMPANIES
BETWEEN 2015 AND 2016
SOURCE: PMPRB 2016 ANNUAL REPORT PER SECTOR
IN CANADA
CANADA’S LIFE SCIENCES SECTOR • Supplier & Engineering
1,239 companies (29.1%)
Focused on life sciences R&D, manufacturing medical • Public/Non-profit Organizations/
devices and diagnostic equipment, and developing Medical Facilities
726 companies (17.1%)
pharmaceuticals and biopharmaceuticals.
• Professional Services & Consulting
Segments/subsectors include: Canada is the 564 companies (13.2%)
• Biopharmaceuticals • Medical Technologies lowest-cost • Biotechnology/R&D Services
• Biotechnology • Medical Technologies/Biotech 380 companies (8.9%)
• Cardiology • Metabolic Diseases G7 country in • Medical Technology
370 companies (8.7%)
• Contractual Research/Medical
Technology
• Nanomedicines biotechnology,
• Natural Health Products • Biotechnology–Other
• Cosmeceuticals • Neurology/Neuroscience product testing 312 companies (7.3%)
• Cyclotron Sciences
• Dermatology
• Nutraceuticals and clinical • Biotechnology–
Therapeutics & Diagnostics
• Oncology
247 companies (5.8%)
• Digital Health • Organ Transplantation trials industries
• Drug Reformulation • HealthTech
• Patient-oriented Medicine 205 companies (4.8%)
• E-Health • Pharmaceuticals
• Endocrinology • Pharma
• Regenerative Medicine/ Did you know... 112 companies (2.6%)
• Genomics Stem Cells
Frederick Banting and Charles Best • Investor
• Health Research • Reproductive Health
revolutionized diabetes treatment 83 companies (1.9%)
• Health Training and Simulation • Synchrotron
in the 1920s by developing • Media
• Immunology • Tele-robotics Health
a method to extract insulin from 20 companies (0.5%)
• Infectious Diseases • Vaccines & Diagnostic
a donor pancreas. Total # companies: 4,258
• Medical Devices • Virology
• Medical Imaging
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IMPROVING
GLOBAL HEALTH
ONE BREAKTHROUGH
AT A TIME
Innovative lifesaving treatment protocols, pharmaceutical drug The world’s 2nd highest number of biotechnology companies
therapies and medical devices developed here contribute are concentrated in Canada. The 10th largest market for
to Canada’s place as a world leader in health sciences. pharmaceutical sales, it is Canada’s infrastructure, talent and
From creating the world’s first pacemaker and discovering the ready access to key markets that draw the world’s largest
potential of stem cells in revolutionary therapies, to battling life sciences companies here. Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Gilead,
some of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, Canadian Novartis, Johnson & Johnson and others are among the
researchers forge a path toward a healthier world. Canada’s global leaders conducting research, running clinical trials and
leadership in digital technology and robotics is changing patient manufacturing new drugs in Canada.
care through future-focused advancements in everything from
medtech to medical manufacturing. Canada is home to North America’s 2nd largest life sciences
corridor. With hotspots for cancer research, radiation therapies,
regenerative treatments, brain and vascular health across the
country, multinational organizations recognize that incredible
advancements in patient care are happening here.
In Canada, sparks of inspiration often
become life-changing discoveries and
treatments. It’s also where life sciences
leaders connect people and purpose in
conferences from coast to coast.
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SUBSECTOR
SPOTLIGHT
PHARMACEUTICALS &
BIOPHARMACEUTICALS
HOTSPOTS
VANCOUVER
QUÉBEC CITY
MONTRÉAL
OTTAWA
TORONTO
Emerging fields:
$1.1
LEADING PHARMACEUTICAL
COMPANIES IN CANADA biologics and
subsequent entry
BILLION biologics (SEBs)
ANNUAL R&D CANADA
SUCCESS STORIES
$15.5
Canada is the world’s
With 45 resident companies,
10TH LARGEST market
Johnson & Johnson
for pharmaceutical sales
Innovation’s JLABS incubator
BILLION in Toronto is the largest of its 2% share of the global market
ANNUAL REVENUE CANADA kind, offering 45 emerging
companies the environment to 50% of Canadian production
catalyze growth and optimize is exported to the US
SOURCE: PMPRB 2016 ANNUAL REPORT SOURCE: IMS PHARMAFOCUS 2021 their R&D.
ONCOLOGY
SUCCESS STORIES
Canada's global leadership in The test identifies roughly one-third
stem cell and regenerative of early breast cancer patients
HOTSPOTS medicine research goes back whose tumours are of a low-risk
more than 50 years to when Drs. subtype, thus helping patients
James Till and Ernest McCulloch avoid unnecessary chemotherapy.
EDMONTON
first proved the existence of stem The University of Saskatchewanʼs
VANCOUVER cells (hematopoietic). Their Lasker state-of-the-art cyclotron is being
QUÉBEC CITY Prize-winning work contributed used to produce the radioactive
MONTRÉAL to the development of several
OTTAWA tracer FDG for cancer diagnosis
TORONTO lifesaving therapies, from and treatment. This breakthrough
bone-marrow transplantation allows more patients to receive
to cancer treatment. PET/CT scans close to their homes
PAM50 is a test developed by and families instead of travelling out
Dr. Torsten Nielsen to measure key of province for treatment.
genes expressed by breast cancer.
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INFECTIOUS IMAGING &
DISEASES MEDICAL DEVICES
7TH
HOTSPOTS
Did you know...
VANCOUVER
The world’s first practical
SASKATOON
QU ÉBEC CITY
LARGEST artificial pacemaker was
developed in Canada in
IN THE WORLD 1950 thanks to the efforts
of John Hopps, an electrical
$3.1
ACCURATE AND engineer with the National
SUCCESS STORIES RAPID DIAGNOSES Research Council.
The University of Saskatchewan's
BILLION
Vaccine and Infectious Disease CANADA’S LEADING
Organization–International MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
BD Diagnostics GeneOhm EXPORTS COMPANIES*
Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac)
produces in vitro polymerase
was the first to develop a swine
chain reaction (PCR) tests • 3M Canada
$8.6
model for the study of Zika virus
used to identify infectious • Agfa-HealthCare
infection. In 2013, when the
agents in record time. • Bausch & Lomb Canada
Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus
• Bio-Rad Laboratories
spread to North America, VIDO-
InterVac developed an improved BILLION • Getinge Canada
• Merge Healthcare
vaccine before the virus infected IMPORTS
Canada. A commercial partner is DiagnoCure develops • Siemens Canada
SOURCE: GLOBAL TRADE ATLAS
manufacturing the vaccine and molecular diagnostic • Sparton Electronics
seeking regulatory approval for tests for detecting and • STEMCELL Technologies
use in the US and Canada. monitoring cancer. HOTSPOTS
* Revenue over $100 million
Appili Therapeutics is SOURCE: CONTACT CANADA AND MEDEC
working with the National
Research Council to develop
GenePOC's “lab on a chip” EDMONTON
the ATI-1701 vaccine to protect
carries out diagnostic tests for
against tularemia, a highly
pathogen genes in a doctor’s
infectious disease and a QU ÉBEC CITY
office within 70 minutes.
potential bioterror threat. OTTAWA
HALIFAX
TORONTO
SUCCESS STORIES
Robert Burrell, a University of Alberta engineering professor,
Québec City ̓s Infectious Disease Research Centre (IDRC) invented Acticoat, a nanotech silver-coated wound dressing
at Laval University is 1st in Canada and 5th worldwide. As part that creates an optimal antimicrobial environment and is
of an international consortium, IDRC has completed all stages in remarkably effective with burn patients.
the FDA regulatory approval process and is conducting the first
clinical trials for its Zika vaccine.
Did you know...
bioLytical Laboratories Inc., based in Richmond, British
Columbia, developed the INSTI® HIV Self Test used in the
diagnosis of HIV infection. It is the fastest HIV diagnostic test
in the world at 60 seconds.
#meetincanada BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA 9
VANCOUVER EDMONTON
The Vancouver region has developed a reputation for research Edmonton is the headquarters for Alberta Health Services (AHS),
excellence in oncology, infectious diseases (such as HIV, SARS and Canada's largest province-wide, fully integrated health system,
prions), neuroscience and regenerative medicine and is home to the responsible for delivering health services to more than four million
world's only quantum computer. residents. AHS is the largest contributor to Alberta's GDP.
“
LIFE SCIENCES IN EDMONTON
Vancouver-based University of British Columbia is home to the
largest academic life sciences institute in Canada. We can help 66,000 4,500 $13.6
your organization tap into Vancouver’s world-leading community of Life
Science researchers working in academia, government and industry.”
PEOPLE WORKING
IN HEALTH
HEALTH AND
LIFE SCIENCES
BILLION
ALBERTA GDP
COMPANIES
—Andrea Heaney, Manager, Meetings and Conventions, Tourism Vancouver
SOURCE: EDMONTON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (EEDC); HEALTH
LIFE SCIENCES Did you know... SECTOR ANALYSIS, EDMONTON GLOBAL
IN BRITISH The Vancouver-based Centre for
COLUMBIA Drug Research and Development is
$14.4
“
Canada’s national drug development
BILLION
and commercialization engine. Edmonton’s success in health innovation is the result
of a number of interrelated strengths at work. With an
SECTOR GDP
intellectual edge, an ecosystem ripe for growth and strong
INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP
178,000 partnerships in place, Edmonton is a leader in health innovation.”
—Edmonton, Health City
EMPLOYED
450+ University of British Columbia-
Broadway Corridor: A world-class
COMPANIES
life sciences cluster. COMPANIES
SOURCE: THE LIFE SCIENCES SEC-
TOR IN BC REPORT, OCTOBER 2015,
PwC AND LIFESCIENCES BRITISH
• Aris MD
COLUMBIA • DrugBank
Innovation Boulevard: A partnership • Exciton
Technologies
between Fraser Health, Simon Fraser
COMPANIES • MagnetTx
University and the City of Surrey to
develop a life sciences cluster. • Metabolomic
• ABM Applied Biological Technologies
Materials Inc.
• Nanostics
• Arbutus Biopharma
• Pri-Med
• Celator Pharmaceuticals
Accel-Rx Health Sciences Accelerator: • Tevosol
• Kardium Inc.
• Merck A national organization created to help
• Neovasc Inc.
new health sciences companies obtain
the resources for success.
• Response Biomedical SUCCESS STORIES
Corp.
• STEMCELL Technologies
• Xenon Pharmaceuticals University of Alberta
breakthroughs: Northern Alberta Institute
• Zymeworks
of Technology (NAIT)
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF • A new heart transplant
HUMAN GENETICS is home to the
protocol for children
Nanotechnology Systems
October 20–24, 2026 • The world’s first oral anti-viral treatment
for Hepatitis B program—the first such
Est. 8,000 attendees
• The Edmonton Protocol, a diploma in Canada.
SUCCESS STORIES revolutionary treatment for NAIT is one of only
Type 1 diabetes three certified CAE
• Robotic-assisted beating Healthcare Centres of
Augurex and its partners developed a 14-3-3 eta blood test called heart surgery
Excellence worldwide.
JOINTstat that looks for extracellular protein, which can lead to early • Clarity DX, a blood test to diagnose and
diagnosis and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and improve clinical predict prostate cancer
outcomes. Clinical labs worldwide have adopted JOINTstat. • Discovering the Nodal protein, a key
identifier in treating ovarian cancer
10 BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA businesseventscanada.caSASKATOON TORONTO
This Prairie city is among the top biotechnology centres Situated at the midpoint of the Quebec-Ontario Life Sciences
in the world, attracting more than 30% of biotechnology Corridor, Toronto is an industry trailblazer and home to nearly 50
research spending in Canada. global pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, as well as 16
of the world's top 25 medical device companies.
LIFE SCIENCES
RESEARCH
VIDO-InterVac is responsible
for several world firsts in animal 36,000 LIFE SCIENCES
IN TORONTO
CLUSTER vaccines EMPLOYED
Innovation Place Saskatoon
8 commercialized vaccines
55%
$200+ million in biocontainment OF CANADA’S Canada's LARGEST
Canadian Light Source
infrastructure PHARMACEUTICAL biotech cluster
University of Saskatchewan COMPANIES
150 infectious disease and
VIDO-InterVac vaccine studies annually 65%
OF CANADA’S Canada's LARGEST
“
PHARMACEUTICAL JOBS
pharmaceutical cluster
Saskatchewan is recognized as a world leader in
biotechnology and life sciences with some of the most
$1 BILLION+
IN R&D
advanced facilities in Canada. Saskatoon’s research infrastructure North America's
and talent pool is among our city’s strategic competitive advantages.
Hosting your congress here will foster further sharing and 1,400+ SECOND LARGEST
life sciences cluster
advancement in this area.” CLINICAL TRIALS
SOURCE: TOURISM TORONTO
— Brad Peters, Director International Sales, Tourism Saskatoon
Did you know...
INTERNATIONAL
Toronto’s Discovery District is Canada’s ASSOCIATION FOR
largest concentration of hospitals, research THE STUDY OF LUNG
PHOTO: TOURISM SASKATOON,
CANCER
institutes, business incubators and
CANADIAN LIGHT SOURCE
business support services. The district is September 23–26, 2018
home to a network of 22,000 medical- 7,000 attendees
related professionals and more than 30
medical and related research centres.
Canadian Light Source
“
Toronto is known for its dedication to innovation and
COMPANIES
commitment to R&D in the life sciences. As the largest
5TH INTERNATIONAL
• Fytokem combined life sciences sector in Canada, employing more than
ONE HEALTH
CONGRESS • Med-Life Discoveries 36,000 people in areas such as biotechnology and pharmaceuticals,
June 22–25, 2018 • Prairie Plant Systems meetings benefit from the conversations that are happening in
1,000 attendees
`Canada’s Downtown.´ ”
• Quantum Genetix
— Tara Gordon, VP, Sales & Service, Business Events Toronto
SUCCESS STORIES SUCCESS STORIES COMPANIES
The Canadian Light Source is a cutting-edge synchrotron Leading tissue engineering researchers at • Amgen
the University of Toronto have developed a • AstraZeneca
radiation facility. Used by scientists from around the globe,
biodegradable “scaffold” that facilitates and
research ranges from mine tailing remediation to cancer • Baxter
speeds regeneration of human bone tissue.
research and materials development. • Bayer
Researchers at Toronto General Hospital's Lung
• Gilead Sciences
The radioactive tracer FDG is being produced for the diagnosis Transplant Program have devised a method to test
the viability of a donor lung before transplantation. • GlaxoSmithKline
and treatment of cancer, allowing patients to receive PET/CT scans
The XVIVO Lung Perfusion System mimics the • Johnson & Johnson
closer to their homes and families instead of travelling to health
human body temperature and environment. • McKesson
centres in other provinces.
Toronto-based eSight has created the only • Pfizer
clinically validated electronic eyeglasses that
• Roche
restore functional sight to the visually impaired.
#meetincanada BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA 11OTTAWA MONTRÉAL
A hub for discovery, development and commercialization With a critical mass of industry leaders, workers and students, plus
in the life sciences sector, Ottawa’s proximity to federal cutting-edge facilities, Montréal is an innovation hotspot. Montréal
government bodies and world-class research partners ranks sixth among 20 of North America's largest cities in terms of
make this an ideal location for innovation life sciences and health technologies employment.
LIFE SCIENCES R&D ACHIEVEMENTS LIFE SCIENCES IN MONTRÉAL
IN OTTAWA
$5.6 56,000 650
35 BILLION EMPLOYED COMPANIES
CANADA World-leading clinical trials SECTOR GDP
RESEARCH CHAIRS
including stem cell therapy for
5 septic shock and double-virus
therapy for cancer
10,000 300
GRADUATES RESEARCH
MAJOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS
HOSPITALS ANNUALLY
3,900 Nerve transfer
SOURCES: MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL; MINISTÈRE DE L’ÉCONOMIE, DE LA SCIENCE ET
DE L’INNOVATION, 2017; INVIVO 2017; STATISTICS CANADA, 2016 AND BUREAU OF LABOR
STATISTICS (BLS), 2016, KPMG, 2017
EMPLOYED
surgery in Canada
140
“
COMPANIES When it comes to R&D, the competition is global. We
have to make a business case to headquarters for each
In Canada for high-tech
SOURCES: INVEST OTTAWA; project to explain why we should invest in North America instead
surgical suites for less-invasive
TOURISM OTTAWA of a fast-growing emerging economy. What gives our new clinical
vascular surgery
research centre its advantage is the fact that Greater Montréal
has a one-of-a-kind life sciences ecosystem.”
—Frédéric Fasano, CEO, Servier Canada
ANNUAL MEETING OF
THE INTERNATIONAL
SOCIETY OF PAEDIATRIC COMPANIES
ONCOLOGY
INTERNATIONAL
• Bristol-Myers Squibb SOCIETY FOR
October 14–17, 2020
• GlaxoSmithKline MAGNETIC RESONANCE
Est. 1,500 attendees
• Merck Frosst IN MEDICINE
• Novartis May 11–16, 2019
• Pfizer 7,000 attendees
COMPANIES SUCCESS STORIES • Pharmascience
• Abbott • Roche Diagnostics
Abbott Point of Care has
• Clearwater Clinical • Sanofi-Aventis
pioneered portable handheld 1ST IN CANADA
• DNA Genotek • Servier
technology for rapid blood for R&D investments
• Dynacare analysis. A boon in multiple • Valeant Pharmaceuticals
and research centres
• Montfort scenarios—emergency
• Nordion care, operating rooms, North America̓s 3RD LARGEST
• Spartan hospital bedside or physician RESEARCH HUB after Boston
• Thermo Fisher office—the i-STAT System and San Francisco
• Turnstone Biologics delivers lab-quality results SUCCESS STORIES
within minutes.
During the 1980s, McGill
“
University grad and renowned
The nation’s capital is a global leader in the life sciences sector, chemist Dr. Bernard Belleau
offering access to world-class hospitals, research centres discovered an anti-AIDS
and federal government departments directly responsible for health molecule that ultimately led
regulation, protection and promotion. Combined with the country’s to the commercialization of
most intelligent meeting facility, Ottawa is the ideal meeting destination 3TC with Montréal company
for organizations involved in health and life sciences.” Biochem Pharma. Today,
—Nina Kressler, President & CEO, Shaw Centre 3TC is included in most HIV
drug treatments.
12 BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA businesseventscanada.caQUÉBEC CITY HALIFAX
The presence of leading players in the biopharmaceutical, medical Home to a significant life sciences community, Halifax is a leader
equipment and technology, cosmeceutical and natural health product in Ocean based Natural Health Products. Local players include
sectors has enabled the region to develop advanced niches in these Acadian Seaplants, the world’s largest manufacturer of seaweed-
high-potential industries. A hub for vaccine R&D, Québec City also based specialty products; DSM, the world’s largest producer of
boasts several successful firms specializing in the development of Omega-3 supplements; and Nature's Way Canada, which has the
medical diagnostic tools. largest share of Canada's omega-3 market and is headquartered
in Halifax.
LIFE SCIENCES IN The province of
QUÉBEC CITY LIFE SCIENCES IN COMPANIES
Quebec is 4th in North HALIFAX
$1.3 America for number of
$300
• Acadian Seaplants
BILLION
• Appili Therapeutics
biotechnology firms
ANNUAL REVENUE
MILLION • Nature's Way Canada
• BlueLight Analytics
ANNUAL EXPORT SALES
SUCCESS STORIES
6,370 (NOVA SCOTIA) • Adaptiiv
• Densitas
JOBS The Quebec Heart and Lung
Institute Research Centre has 15,000 • BioVectra
121 achieved a major breakthrough in
C. difficile management strategy
EMPLOYED
(NOVA SCOTIA)
• Panag Pharmaceuticals
• Alentic Microscience
COMPANIES • BioMedica Diagnostics
100+
by using DNA technology
SOURCES: CENTRE DE RECHERCHE to reduce the time it takes
INDUSTRIELLE DU QUÉBEC; INSTITUT DE COMPANIES
LA STATISTIQUE DU QUÉBEC, 2016
to identify microbes to one
hour, compared to 48 hours SOURCE: BIONOVA AND HALIFAX
PARTNERSHIP
SUCCESS STORIES
previously.
“
Adaptiiv
This Halifax-based company
We want to maintain Québec City as our headquarters
is taking on the fight against
because we can do everything here: research, production
cancer with their advanced
and commercialization. Québec City’s core strength is its specialized
The Brain Repair Centre software solution that enables
and highly educated workforce, which makes it one of the most
is internationally renowned the creation of customized
competitive cities in which to do business.”
for Parkinson’s treatment 3D personal medical devices,
—Fernand Labrie, Founder & CEO, Endoceutics effectively improving treatment
outcomes and patient
experience.
COMPANIES LAVAL UNIVERSITY Highest number of
RESEARCH LEADERSHIP neuroscientists per
• BD Diagnostics capita in Canada
• Feldan Therapeutics IUCPQ, Québec Heart and Lung
“
• GenePOC University Institute, is the leading
• GlaxoSmithKline research centre for the treatment
• IFF - Lucas Meyer of heart, lung and obesity-related With access to some of the world’s best researchers,
Cosmetics diseases, with 545 clinical studies universities and government labs such as Dalhousie and
• Medicago currently underway. The Brain Repair Centre, Halifax continues to make significant
• Nestle/Atrium Innovations investment in R&D specifically in the areas of neuroscience, marine
Laboratoire d'organogénèse
• PetalMD biotech, biochemistry and biomedical engineering. This and our
expérimentale (LOEX), is one of
• SiliCycle reputation for being exceptional hosts
the first laboratories in the world
• Syneos Health of major conferences makes
to perform organ reconstruction
• Steris Halifax an ideal location
through tissue engineering with
to bring a conference
normal human cells.
focused on life sciences.”
The world's top 10 The L’Oréal Innovation & SOCIETY FOR
— Michelle Brenton, VP, Sales, Discover Halifax OBSTETRIC
pharmaceutical Research Chair in Digital Biology
ANESTHESIA AND
companies all is the first bioinformatics research PERINATOLOGY
chair at Laval University. It will
have operations be a centre of excellence in the
June 12–18, 2020
Est. 700+ attendees
in Quebec development of Omics technologies.
#meetincanada BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA 13WHY
CANADA
FOR LIFE SCIENCES
CONFERENCES
Canada excels in life sciences and leads
the world in research and innovation in
pharmaceuticals, infectious disease therapies,
medical devices, medtech and more.
Attracted by Canadian infrastructure, talent
and ready access to key markets, the largest
pharmaceutical companies in the world conduct
research and clinical trials, and manufacture their products in
Canada.
The corridor running between the provinces
of Quebec and Ontario is North America’s
2nd largest cluster of life sciences research and manufacturing
activities. The region boasts internationally acclaimed meeting
locations including Québec City, Montréal, Ottawa and Toronto.
Academia thrives here, including
in Toronto, North America’s
3rd largest research hub after
Boston and San Francisco.
Toronto, Ontario
14 BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA businesseventscanada.caIn the Canadian Prairies, Saskatoon’s VIDO-InterVac
conducts some 150 infectious disease and vaccine
studies annually, which has led to advanced
vaccination protocols and several world firsts.
Some of Canada’s most innovative urban centres are also
favourites of world travellers—from the European flair of Montréal
and Québec City to Toronto’s dynamic downtown waterfront and
Vancouver’s coastal mountain vibe. Announcing Canada
as a host destination always fuels attendance.
A uniquely Canadian
concept, national Biotech 17 medical schools, 100+ teaching hospitals and
Week began here in 2003 countless institutions conducting envelope-pushing
and subsequently expanded
into Global Biotech research equals plenty of local expertise to champion
Week, raising awareness your conference, aid in membership recruitment and
of biotech industries
among policy-makers and
sponsorship, and provide expert guest speakers.
influencers across North
America, Europe and Asia.
Advancements in Canada’s
artificial intelligence, deep
learning and reinforcement
learning technologies
are steering the future
of medtech, including
robot-assisted surgeries.
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knowledge of all Canadian destinations from industry
content to conference facilities. Contact us for solutions and
support on the fundamentals of meeting in Canada, including
introductions to our extensive cross-country network of
meeting and event partners.
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Virginie De Visscher
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+1 204-802-0920
October 2019
This document is a collaborative effort between Destination Canada,
Business Events Canada, Canadian tourism and economic development agencies
and partners, and MNP. For more information on data and sources, contact
Destination Canada Research at: research@destinationcanada.com.
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