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Canada's capital is about to get a major boost in medical research.
The University of Ottawa has announced plans to build a new Advanced Medical Research Center in Ottawa, which will be six stories tall and 350,000 square feet with laboratories, technology platforms, and other infrastructure, the Ottawa Citizen reports.
"For years, researchers, innovators, and health-care leaders have noted how a shortage of up-to-date research, and wet-lab facilities has limited this region's potential to be a leader in health-care innovation and biotech commercialization," University of Ottawa President Jacques Fr ? mont says in a press release.
"This has impeded, not only health-related research and development, but our ability to attract and retain top global talent in health-care innovation."
The AMRC, which is expected to open in 2026, will be home to the Ottawa Health Innovation Hub, where researchers will team up with clinicians and investors to incubate and scale up startups to accelerate the commercialization of novel treatments, per the press release.
" basic discoveries to move quickly through the research and innovation pipeline so that we can maximize the impact of our work for the community," Dr.Julie St.Pierre, a professor at the Faculty of Medicine at the university, says in the Read the Entire Article
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