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June 14, 2010
AGM Held and New Board Members Named

April 23, 2010
Halifax student wins SABC for Nova Scotia

March 04, 2010
Immunovaccine IPO Top Life Sciences Story

February 08, 2010
Life sciences community thriving

February 01, 2010
Commercialization Funds for University, Collage and Hospital-based Researchers

December 22, 2009
510,000 HIV tests ordered up from MedMira

December 10, 2009
MedMira's Rapid HIV Test Approved for Sale in Nigeria

December 09, 2009
Immunovaccine Receives Clearance from FDA to Proceed with Phase 1 Clinical Trial for its Therapeutic

December 08, 2009
Finalists Announced in I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition

November 30, 2009
MedMira Announces Year End Results

November 23, 2009
Immunovaccine Licenses Vaccine Platform to Pfizer Animal Health

November 17, 2009
Top Investment Talent Joins InNOVAcorp Team

November 10, 2009
Immunovaccine Inc. Signs Collaboration Agreement with National Cancer Institute

November 09, 2009
MedMira and Swiss Investor Andurja Complete $2 Million in Equity Investment

November 02, 2009
Immunovaccine Inc. Signs Cato Research Canada, Inc. as Clinical Trial CRO

October 29, 2009
Immunovaccine Expands Collaboration with Defence Research & Development Canada

September 26, 2009
Biotech Firm Goes Public

September 24, 2009
Company's Latest Client a Rhino

September 24, 2009
Biotech Firm Adds up to 30 Jobs

September 21, 2009
Premier Proclaims Biotechnology and Life Sciences Week in Nova Scotia

September 18, 2009
Media Advisory - National Biotech Week highlighted by BioPort Atlantic

September 03, 2009
Venture Capital Expert to deliver Investment Climate Forecast at BioPort Atlantic 2009

August 27, 2009
A breakthrough website - ImmunoVaccine Technologies Inc.

August 06, 2009
IVT Partners With Scancell to Advance DNA Vaccine Delivery

July 28, 2009
A New Shot at Heart Health

July 23, 2009
IVT Secures National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program Funding

July 23, 2009
A Shake a Day Keeps the Weight Away

July 15, 2009
Canadian researchers discover gene related to the appearance of aging

April 27, 2009
Research on Tea Wins Richmond Academy Student Entry to National Biotech Competition

January 26, 2009
Origin BioMed Awarded Red Herring Top 100 Global Company

December 08, 2008
December issue of diaLOG now available

October 28, 2008
BioNova applauds Province’s commitment to life science incubation

October 10, 2008
Healthy outlook in life sciences

September 22, 2008
Biotechnology and Life Sciences Week Proclaimed in Nova Scotia

April 24, 2008
2008 Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge Winners Announced

April 24, 2008
BioNova's Research Excellence Award Winner Announced

December 15, 2007
2007 Life Sciences Scrum - Winning Story

December 05, 2007
Celebrating Science and Technology in Nova Scotia

November 30, 2007
Discovery Centre Honours Nova Scotia's Sci-Tech Best

September 28, 2007
Biotech Needs Cash Injection

September 28, 2007
Big Pharma looking for powerful little partners

September 27, 2007
BioPort 2007 launches in Halifax

September 26, 2007
Life sciences industry gathers for annual life sciences conference

September 26, 2007
MedMira Receives Approval to Import Rapid HIV Test into India

September 24, 2007
Biotechnology and Life Sciences Week Proclaimed in Nova Scotia

September 20, 2007
Program announced for BioPort Atlantic 2007

July 04, 2007
Asset map will grow life sciences in Nova Scotia: MacNeil

June 19, 2007
Exports Vital to Healthy Life Sciences Industry

June 19, 2007
Watch Life Sciences Grow

June 06, 2007
BioNova Elects Three New Board Members

May 14, 2007
sabc - Thank God these teens aren't athletes

May 07, 2007
Bringing Nova Scotia's Life Sciences Industry to Boston

May 05, 2007
N.S. delegates off to biotech convention

April 27, 2007
Halifax student takes top prize at the sanofi-aventis biotech challenge

April 27, 2007
A Celebration of Research Excellence in Nova Scotia

November 20, 2006
Making news with life sciences

September 26, 2006
Hants RDA Recognizes Life Sciences Industry

September 22, 2006
Program announced for BioPort Atlantic 2006

September 20, 2006
Premier MacDonald to Proclaim Biotechnology and Life Sciences Week in Nova Scotia

September 19, 2006
Co-founder of Canada's #1 selling cold & flu product to speak at BioPort Atlantic 2006

August 25, 2006
Nova Scotia’s Life Sciences Industry Association Installs New Executive

April 27, 2006
Nova Scotia High School Students Shine as Tomorrow's Researchers

April 27, 2006
A Celebration of Research Excellence in Nova Scotia

April 12, 2006
BioNova's Life Sciences Scrum - Winning Story

January 01, 2006
Life in Nova Scotia

November 25, 2005
Life Sciences Industry welcomes Keata Pharma to Nova Scotia

November 21, 2005
Life Sciences Industry backs Recommendation for Increased Tax Credit

September 26, 2005
Life Sciences Industry Gathers in Halifax for Annual Life Sciences Conference

September 23, 2005
Biotechnology and Life Sciences Week Proclaimed in Nova Scotia

September 19, 2005
World-Renowned Speakers to Present at Life Sciences Conference in Halifax

August 30, 2005
Life Sciences Industry Bouyed By Province’s Investment In ONC

July 12, 2005
Nova Scotia's Life Sciences Industry Prepares for the 'Second Wave'

May 04, 2005
High School Students Shine as Tomorrow’s Researchers

April 14, 2004
Imagine: A Strategy to Grow Nova Scotia's Life Sciences Industry


$42m research centre set to take on a life of its own

BioBusiness Matters

September 26, 2008
Biotechnology: economy-wide, yet smaller than a cell

September 24, 2008
Biotechnology: economy-wide, yet smaller than a cell

July 29, 2008
Diabetes drug drives firm’s success

May 24, 2008
Transforming the economy, Ireland style

February 28, 2008
Microbes may scrub way to profits

January 24, 2008
DementiaGuide helps deal with disease

January 01, 2008
Life sciences sector made advances in 2007

November 27, 2007
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plant a Milestone

October 26, 2007
Invention helps brain diagnostic methods

September 20, 2007
Nova Scotia Biotech Sector has Recipe for Success

August 16, 2007
Company with roots in Mabou builds globally

June 26, 2007
Opportunities Abound for Growing Life Sciences Sector

May 24, 2007
Still Time Left for N.S. Life Sciences Industry

May 03, 2007
Life Science Industry Touches our Lives in Many Ways

March 22, 2007
A Meeting of Biotech Minds in Boston

February 22, 2007
Survival Linked to Research, Innovation

January 18, 2007
Life Sciences Industry Firms Take Road Less Travelled

December 28, 2006
A Year in Review for Nova Scotia's Life Sciences Industry

November 30, 2006
Drug Plan Coverage Key for Life Sciences Companies

October 26, 2006
A Business Opportunity in Urinary Incontenence

September 21, 2006
Celebrating the Marriage of Life Sciences and Technology

August 24, 2006
Ophaned Super Mice Start Nova Scotia Business

August 06, 2006
She Ought to be in Medical Pictures

Other Industry News

July 29, 2010
Albert Scardino Joins Immunovaccine’s Board of Directors

July 26, 2010
Origin BioMed Inc. and Ascenta Named Two of 2010's Fastest Growing Companies

July 12, 2010
Immunovaccine Licenses Clinical Stage Cancer Vaccine

July 08, 2010
Brain Repair Centre Appoints New Director of Research and Education

July 07, 2010
Ocean Nutrition Preparing to Make Advances in Biomass Sector

June 29, 2010
Immunovaccine Signs Agreement with Oncothyreon to Develop Cancer Vaccine

June 28, 2010
BlueLight Analytics Inc.'s MARC Featured in Dalhousie's OutFront Magazine

June 21, 2010
The Volunteerism of J.P. Deveau (Acadian Seaplants Ltd.) Profiled in Business Voice

June 21, 2010
Member CEOs Honoured in Atlantic Business Magazine

June 18, 2010
MedMira's Rapid HIV Test is being used at the Perinatal HIV Research Unit in Soweto, South Africa

June 15, 2010
MedMira Partner Vitest Signs Exclusive Agreement with Red Cross Nigeria to Provide 2 Million Rapid H

June 07, 2010
Immunovaccine Signs Agreement with Vaxil BioTherapeutics to Advance Potential Cancer Vaccine

June 02, 2010
Dr. Don Weaver has won the Bantrel Award for 2010

June 02, 2010
MedMira's Rapid HIV Test receives perfect marks

May 30, 2010
Dr. Ivar Mendez meets with Prime Minister to honour this year's top influential Hispanic Canadians

May 28, 2010
Immunovaccine's Dr. Randal Chase interviewed for Oncology & Biotech News, May 2010

May 25, 2010
Ascenta Launches Vegetarian Omega-3 Supplement

May 25, 2010
HIV test recognition helps MedMira grow globally

May 18, 2010
Innovacorp Wins International Award

May 14, 2010
Preparations underway to reopen pharmaceutical plant

May 10, 2010
Feds announce more R&D commercialization funding

May 04, 2010
Lawson Researcher Receiving International Recognition for Novel Imaging Platform

April 29, 2010
NS: Biotech firms on mission to seek out new markets

April 28, 2010
PROMASIL Voted Best New Protein

April 19, 2010
Halifax Biomedical Creates High-tech Jobs in Mabou

April 13, 2010
Precision BioLogic Recognized as a Great Place to Work

April 12, 2010
Immunovaccine Announces the Publication of DPX-0907 Preclinical Study

March 31, 2010
Immunovaccine Begins Patient Recruitment for Phase I Trial of DPX-0907 Cancer Vaccine

March 17, 2010
Government of Canada supports and unveils new lab for brain disease and disorders diagnostics

March 17, 2010
Ryan D'Arcy receives Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation Award of Excellence for Clinical Research

March 17, 2010
Dr. Donald Weaver Awarded a Killam Research Fellowship

March 16, 2010
EastMed Inc achieves National Health Coverage for uresta® Continence Care product

March 15, 2010
Milked for all it's worth: Biotech firm developing DNA test for cattle

March 15, 2010
Innovascreen recognized in feature article, Lost in Migration, March 2010 issue Nature Biotechnology

March 03, 2010
End Goal: to make a difference for mankind

March 03, 2010
Ascenta places consumer safety first with PCB levels significantly below most stringent guidelines

March 02, 2010
Immunovaccine Signs Licensing Deal with Pfizer Animal Health to Develop a Third Livestock Vaccine

February 19, 2010
Raising money hard to do

February 08, 2010
Going global key to survival in tech industry

February 08, 2010
N.S. boasts burgeoning tech sector

February 08, 2010
Universities helping drive research, technology

February 02, 2010
Nominations for Gold Leaf Awards Close February 24

January 27, 2010
Origin BioMed receives $3 million in funding to develop novel treatments for neuropathic pain

January 25, 2010
NSAC gets $7 million to build innovation centre

January 25, 2010
Government of Canada Invests $16.7 Million in R&D to Drive Growth in Nova Scotia

January 25, 2010
Genome Atlantic project receives $2.8M from ACOA-AIF

December 16, 2009
New Fund Expands Options for Cash-strapped Biotech Industry

December 01, 2009
Origin BioMed wins Innovation Award

July 14, 2009
ImmunoVaccine Technologies Licenses Immunotope’s Breast, Ovarian and Prostate Cancer Antigens

July 09, 2009
ImmunoVaccine Technologies to Develop Pseudomonas Vaccine from Yokohama City University

June 11, 2009
EastMed Inc. signs Canadian distributor for its flagship uresta® product

May 26, 2009
ImmunoVaccine Technologies Partners with FIT Biotech to advance a therapeutic HIV vaccine

March 27, 2009
ImmunoVaccine Technologies Signs Agreement with La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology

March 10, 2009
MedMira and Swiss Partner Vitest Sign Private Label Agreement for Africa

March 03, 2009
Ocean Nutrition Canada takes awareness of Omega-3 to new heights

February 25, 2009
IVT Signs Agreement withNational Institutes of Health to Explore Vaccines for HIV and Malaria

January 13, 2009
Nova Scotia life sciences, where tradition meets technology

September 10, 2008
InNOVAcorp launches commercialization fund

June 26, 2008
Canada’s bio-economy growing but at risk, study finds

June 24, 2008
New Dalhousie initiative builds momentum for Atlantic Gateway

November 16, 2007
Genzyme buys division of P.E.I.’s Diagnostic Chemicals

October 05, 2007
Press Release: SR&ED Consultations on Improving SR&ED Tax Incentives

August 28, 2007
Canada lags in health innovations; Conference Board report says

August 23, 2007
Input From Pharma Marketing and R&D Teams Key to Successful Drug Development

August 13, 2007
Biotech firms can provide a bumpy ride; Many smaller corporations can rise and fall on the fortunes

August 10, 2007
Biotechs without partners could face a tougher road

July 31, 2007
N.S. considers paying med students who work where they're needed

July 27, 2007
Turning up the heat on biotech

July 20, 2007
2007 Canadian Life Sciences Industry Forecast: Funding remains crucial for Canadian biotech industry

July 18, 2007
BIOTECanada's Letter to the Editor Re: Biotech on life support

July 13, 2007
Shortage Of Talent A Critical Condition For Pharma, Biotech

July 10, 2007
Cancer research company opens lab at NRC centre in Charlottetown

July 09, 2007
Outsourcing, it's more than a trend in biotech, it's means of survival

July 09, 2007
Dal professor plays part in drug study

June 19, 2007
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Companies Look to a More Holistic Approach to Enterprise-Wide Conte

June 19, 2007
Innovation Really Matters

June 18, 2007
Biotechs Brace for Patent Reform, High Court Impacts

June 18, 2007
Right time to bet on biotech; Results from clinical trials often released at fall conferences, boost

June 12, 2007
Halifax lures venture capitalists to its fair shores

June 12, 2007
Saving British lives - N.S. technology shows up in ambulances in England

June 12, 2007
Global pharma market predicted to more than double in value to $1.3 trillion by 2020: industry must

June 11, 2007
Dalhousie receives more than $1 million for research projects

June 07, 2007
Incentives for business angels could raise Atlantic Canadian investment

June 03, 2007
Our economic future is in the lab

June 01, 2007
Amendments to the Patent Rules – Effective June 2, 2007

May 22, 2007
Biotechnology companies finding more global options

May 17, 2007
Prime Minister Releases National Science and Technology Strategy to Strengthen Canada's Economy

May 07, 2007
Partiers at BIO convention get down to business

April 16, 2007
BIOTECanada Launches New Online Database of Canadian Life Sciences Companies

March 19, 2007
Federal Budget 2007

March 19, 2007
Centres of Excellence in Commercialization and Research

November 20, 2006
Strengthening Canadian Global Opportunity

September 24, 2006
Nova Scotia Showcases Entrepreneurship and Commercialization

April 26, 2006
Universities are Essential Partners in Atlantic Canada's Future

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