The impact of excellence
Truly exciting and ambitious health science ventures capitalize on existing strengths to transform research, spark breakthroughs, and generate broad and positive socio-economic benefits for the communities they serve.
Introducing the Ottawa Health Innovation Hub
The Ottawa Health Innovation Hub is a key strategic initiative of the National Capital Region’s health research community. Our mission: nurture a robust and innovative local health and life sciences ecosystem that supports research collaboration, the commercialization of discoveries and helps entrepreneurs to start and grow the next generation of high growth firms.
State of the art.
The AMRC will be a vital part of Ottawa’s Alta Vista health sciences campus.
The 300,000 square-foot AMRC will welcome hundreds of researchers and employees of uOttawa’s faculty of medicine, accelerator and incubator companies and our partner organizations.
Connected.
Its design features include fully accessible and collaborative R&D facilities, discovery and translational research floors, and on-site incubation and accelerator facilities.
The Hub through its programs and activities will connect researchers with healthcare challenges, ideas with innovators, discoveries with entrepreneurs and new companies with the business support of mentors, advisors, strategic partners, and venture capital firms.
Built to succeed.
The AMRC will expand our capacity for health research and clinical trials and accelerate innovation, commercialization and the spin-off of high growth companies.
We’ll have critical new infrastructure to meet urgent healthcare research and innovation needs.
Together the AMRC and the Hub will help future-proof Canada’s healthcare research capacity while at the same time contribute to Canada’s post-pandemic economic recovery.
Renderings by Parkin Architects Limited
Economic Impact by end of 2031
$1B contribution to Canada’s GDP
Supports 9,700 jobs*
300,000 sq. ft. of research, discovery, innovation and commercialization space
Home to 200 researchers, a 1000 students, post-docs and trainees and over 200 private sector employees
AMRC breaks ground 2023 – Occupancy 2025
Hub programming begins spring 2022
*Cumulative
Advanced Medical Research Center (AMRC)
Launched at the nexus of government, industry, academia, healthcare, medical science, and advanced technology, the Hub will anchor the University of Ottawa’s new Advanced Medical Research Centre (AMRC). Click the image for a virtual tour.
For more information on how your company or organization can help support the development of the AMRC and the University of Ottawa visit uOttawa Advancement.
“The Hub and the AMRC will be transformational, allowing us to build a pipeline for drug discovery and scale up our clinical trials and commercialize our technology.”
Daniel Figeys, Ph.D., Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa; Co-founder and President of MedBiome
“The AMRC will provide a tremendous new capacity to work together from bench to bedside and back again to look at results from every angle.”
Mary-Ellen Harper, Ph.D., Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa;
Director of the Ottawa Institute Systems of Biology