The BioManufacturing Hub Network
Transformative talent development in the Canadian biomanufacturing hubs
BioHubNet links research, training, translation, and industry partners to deliver a program that tailors training pathways with core and specialized components, including research, technical, transferrable and translational skills, with an industry-ready focus. Multidisciplinary experiential learning will embed trainees in research projects within and beyond academia through strong partnerships with industry and not-for-profit organizations and linkage with the five CBRF hubs will promote national mobility.
BioHubNet will train 500+ interdisciplinary high-quality personnel (HQP) who will in turn support research programs to move through and beyond proof-of-principle, delivering real-world evidence and solutions including regulatory and clinical trials frameworks, policy briefs, technology dossiers, licensing agreements, and rapid multi-domain data analysis, and creating new companies through entrepreneurship and commercialization streams. This effort will deliver HQP and research advances essential for promoting the health and well-being of Canadians in future pandemics and health emergencies.
Project Directors
Molly Shoichet (University of Toronto)
Darius Rackus (Toronto Metropolitan University)
Gilbert Walker (University of Toronto)
Team Members
- Upton Allen (The Hospital for Sick Children)
- Cheryl Arrowsmith (University of Toronto)
- Mamatha Bhat (University Health Network)
- Claudia dos Santos (Unity Health Toronto)
- Lawrence Goodridge (University of Guelph)
- Jane Heffernan (York University)
- Omar Khan (University of Toronto)
- Radhakrishnan Mahadevan (University of Toronto)
- Frank Merante (Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology)
- Samira Mubareka (Sunnybrook Research Institute)
- Micheline Piquette-Miller (University of Toronto)
- Amber Simpson (Queen's University)
- Lisa Strug (University of Toronto)
- Valerie Ward (University of Waterloo)
Partners
- adMare BioInnovations
- AmacaThera
- BlueDot
- Campus Biotech Digital
- Canadian Advanced Therapies Training Institute (CATTI)
- Canadian Alliance for Skills and Training in Life Sciences (CASTL)
- Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM)
- DNAstack
- Hospital for Sick Children
- Integrated Nanotherapeutics Inc.
- Martinrea International
- Mississauga Board of Trade
- Mitacs
- Moderna
- NanoMedicines Innovation Network
- NanoVation Therapeutics
- NorthMiRs
- Ontario Bioscience Innovation Organization (OBIO)
- OmniaBio
- Ontario Centre of Innovation
- National Pharmaceutical Sciences Group (PSG)
- Queen’s University
- Sanofi
- Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology
- Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners (TIAP)
- Toronto Metropolitan University
- Unity Health Toronto
- University Health Network
- University of Guelph
- University of Toronto
- University of Waterloo
- University of Windsor
- Western University
- York University
Funding
$18.98M from the Canada Biomedical Research Fund (CBRF) for Talent Training
