Bioscience Association Manitoba event eyes ‘leader-to-leader’ talks
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Bioscience companies will soon gather in Winnipeg to liaise with Manitoba institutions on research projects. They’ll do so, in part, at Bioscience Association Manitoba’s first research and industry forum, to be held March 9.
“Manitoba has world-class research capacity for human health,” said Andrea Ladouceur, Bioscience Association Manitoba’s president. “There are more partners that want to come to Manitoba and be a part of… current research projects (and) perhaps start new ones.”
The forum kicks off three days of events connecting bioscience researchers with post-secondaries, government and industry.
Eight companies — with research spanning diabetes, cancer and nutrition, among other things — will congregate at the forum. It’s an invite-only day to create “leader-to-leader” discussions with Manitoba players, such as universities, Ladouceur said.
BAM’s goal, partly, is to spotlight Manitoba and its research capacity: Alberta has some 1,400 studies ongoing while Manitoba sits around 250, Ladouceur said.
“We can do big things, and so we want (companies) to think of Manitoba when they’re thinking about… partnering for research,” she said. “Let’s open our doors.”
Government and industry representatives will join during the three days because “research needs to meet the patient to consider this job done,” Ladouceur said.
Businesses will meet government bureaucrats on Bioscience Association Manitoba’s first “hill day” on March 10. The following day, there will be a policy summit and dinner.
— Free Press staff