University Health Network in Toronto is aiming to attract 100 scientists, focusing on people whose research could fuel economic development.
The hospital network is calling its recruitment effort the Canada Leads 100 challenge, and is starting with an initial $15 million that it says will help bring in the first 50 scientists.
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The UHN Foundation and the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation are now setting about finding matching funds.
Dean Connor, chair of the UHN Board of Trustees, says the goal is to see world-leading discoveries and economic spin-off in manufacturing, biotech and commercialization.
Scientists who are recruited through this effort will get a two-year research funding commitment.
UHN president and CEO Kevin Smith says supporting more homegrown discoveries can also boost a made-in-Canada supply chain of advanced medical products and services.
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