About MaRS Innovation: Backgrounder
Designed to enhance the commercial output of Toronto’s outstanding scientific research cluster, MaRS Innovation will make a significant contribution to Canada’s economic outlook and the quality of life for Canadians and others around the world.
Supported by the Government of Canada through the Networks of Centres of Excellence and its 14 member institutions, MaRS Innovation is a partnership that is truly transformational and will focus on turning research strengths into real economic opportunities. MaRS Innovation, with support from MaRS Discovery District and BioDiscovery Toronto, will advance commercialization through industry partnerships, licensing and company creation. The Board of Directors, which includes academic and business leaders from across Canada and the U.S., has the targeted expertise to direct MaRS Innovation to work together with its members, build a diverse portfolio of assets, and harness the economic and job creation potential of the best opportunities for Toronto, Ontario and Canada.
The MaRS Innovation mission is to put Canada on the global innovation stage, by better connecting research with industry and strengthening Canada’s competitive capacity in knowledge based businesses - in short, to launch a new generation of robust, high-growth Canadian companies that will become global market leaders.
Our partners
- Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care
- BioDiscovery Toronto
- Bloorview Kids Rehab
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
- MaRS Discovery District
- Mount Sinai Hospital
- Ontario College of Art and Design
- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
- Ryerson University
- St. Michael’s Hospital
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- The Hospital for Sick Children
- The New Women’s College Hospital
- Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
- University Health Network
- University of Toronto
Board of directors
- W. Geoffrey Beattie – Deputy Chair & President, Woodbridge Company Ltd., Thomson Reuters Corp.
- Christopher C. Capelli, M.D. – Vice President, Technology Based Ventures, Office of Technology Commercialization, University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
- Ron Close – Entrepreneur-in-Residence, MaRS, and Executive Entrepreneur-in-Residence, The Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario
- Nicholas Darby – President, Darby & Associates Consulting LLC
- Mary Jo Haddad – President & CEO, The Hospital for Sick Children
- Jacqueline H.R. Le Saux – General Counsel, Purdue Pharma Canada
- David A. Leslie – Former Chairman & CEO, Ernst & Young, and Chair, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- Michael H. May – President, Rimon Therapeutics
- Chandra J. Panchal – President, Mentra Nova Enterprises Inc.
- Ilse Treurnicht – CEO, MaRS Discovery District
- Donald A. Wright – President & CEO, The Winnington Capital Group Inc.
