1. Technologies of the future – Health of tomorrow
Diane Côté
CEO of MEDTEQ

3. Medical Technology - Canada
Medical device+ market: $6.7 billion (2% of the global market) in 2014
Manufacturing:
Lowest business cost structure and tax burden among the G7
13.1% savings compared to US (KPMG)
Canada also ranks 3rd in the world for the number of sites for active clinical trials of medical devices
. 1,700+ medtech companies
Main locations: Ontario (52%), Quebec (37%) and British Columbia (8%) (2011)

4. Québec-Ontario Corridor
The largest medical devices producer in Canada - with annual sales over $2 billion.
Ontario producers export approximately 90% of products made.
Quebec
Annual medtech purchasing: 1,8 B $
75% of Quebec jobs in health technologies are located in Greater Montreal.
Approximately 240 complementary service providers, including industrial design, plastics, electronics, textiles, metals and public research organizations, are also present in the region
Quebec-Ontario Life Sciences corridor
The second largest in North America in terms of number of life sciences companies and brings a critical mass of:
More than 1,100 companies
qualified people
490 undergraduate and graduate programs in biological and biomedicine sciences
Produces the majority of Canadian sales and exports in life sciences
Access to the majority of Canadian venture capital.

5. Medical Technology expertise - Canada
Vancouver
Image Analysis
Halifax
Brain
Edmonton & Calgary
Micro- and Nanotechnology
Québec city: Sustainable Health
Laval: Optics
Montréal: AI (Deep Learning), Brain, medtech)
Boucherville: Diagnostics, nanos
Winnipeg
Imaging
Toronto: Brain, Cancer
Ottawa: Cardiology
Waterloo: Big Data
London: Imaging

6. Big data – The Institute for data valorization
Scope:
Machine learning and operational research (25% in the Health sector)
Expertise:
More than 1,000 scientists (professors, professionals and students) with complementary areas of expertise
#1 for publications worldwide
Recognized as “Deep Learning Ground Zero”
Major industrial partners:
Applications of AI in precision medicine:
Drug development
Cardiovascular disease risk stratification and risk management
Medical and molecular imaging
Patient empowerment and partnership
Artifical Intelligence
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Funding: 93 M$ (public)
Lead: University of Montreal

7. Medical Technologies –The TransMedTech Institute
Targeted diseases:
Musculoskeletal diseases
Cardiovascular diseases
Cancers
Strategic Technologies:
Biosensors & micro medical devices
Prognostics of progressive pathologies
Imaging, laser therapies, biophotonic probes
Nanotechnologies, robotics, theranostics
Multimodal Imaging, interventional systems
Minimally invasive devices
Rehab technologies
Funding: 35 M$ (public)
Lead: Polytechnique Montreal

8. Neurosciences – Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives
Scope :
Population neuroscience and brain health
Models of neurodegenerative diseases
Cognitive neuroscience of brain plasticity
Neuroinformatics and modelling
Shantou
Shenzen
CBRAIN-mediated CCC Network
China internal
China-Canada-Cuba
International Partners
Funding: 84 M$ (public)
Lead: McGill

9. Brain Diseases – BrainsCAN: Brain Health for Life
Scope :
Parkinson
Alzheimer
Traumatic brain injury
Schizophrenia
Goal :
Deliver evidence-based assessments and interventions for the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the brain
Funding: 66 M$ (public)
Lead: Western University

10. Sustainable health - Photonics – Sentinel North
Scope :
Develop innovative tools in optics- photonics and improve our understanding of the northern environment and its impact on human beings and their health.
Microbiomes: sentinels of the northern environment and human health
Light-matter and light-organism interactions to develop intervention methods (mood control through light) or approaches and systems to detect northern sentinels (remote sensing, biomarker diagnosis/detection).
Funding: 98 M$ (public)
Lead: Laval University

11. Pediatric Rehabilitation
Crossroads of open innovation
Interdisciplinary teams:
Specialized and subspecialized care
Education
Research and Development
Technology Assessment
Clinical-technological platforms
Science of movement  
Applied Robotics Laboratories in Rehabilitation:
Lokomat for the rehabilitation of the lower limbs
Rehabilitation of the upper limbs
Wheelchair Skills
Learning Specialized laboratories
Virtual Simulation & Living Lab
Intelligent materials and FabLab
Regenerative Medicine and Cell Therapy
Lead: Sainte-Justine University Teaching Hospital

12. Canadian Innovation Catalysts

13. Quebec Consortium for Industrial Research and Innovation in Medical Technology
MEDTEQ is the Quebec Consortium for Industrial Research and Innovation in Medical Technology. Its mission is to accelerate the development of innovative technological solutions to improve patients’ health and quality of life. MEDTEQ supports their validation and integration in the healthcare system and their impact, both locally and globally, by bringing together the complementary skills of industrial and academic partners with those of healthcare providers.

14. MEDTEQ – A growing medical technology community
+ 100 members
13 Large companies
56 SMEs
11 Universities
7 College Technical Research Centers
6 Teaching Hospitals
4 Specialized Research Institutes
10 Partners
Including :
on MEDTEQ’s Board of Directors

15. MEDTEQ - Industrial Members

16. MEDTEQ - Universities, Research Centers, Institutes, Teaching Hospitals and Partners

17. MEDTEQ - Innovation Funding Program
Collaborative Research bringing together industry, academic researchers, clinicians, professors, students and more
New Innovative health technology and processes
Up to 80% of the Research Project’s budget publicly financed
From pre-competitive research to market
Industry contributions can benefit from leverage of up to 1:7.5

18. MEDTEQ – Innovation Focus Areas
STRATEGIC AXES
Human performance
Imaging and
Simulation
Personalized
health
Connected
health
Big data
ITC
Telehealth
Visualization
Surgical applications
Medical training
Prevention
Sports medicine
Rehabilitation
Diagnosis
Custom solution
Neuroscience
Cardiology
Orthopeadics
Enabling technologies
Textiles BioMEMS Biomaterials Plastics/Polymers Nanotechnology

19. MEDTEQ – Technologies of the Future,
Health of tomorrow

20. Metronic Cryocath - Arctic Front
MEDTEQ – Technologies of the Future,
Health of tomorrow
Emovi - KneeKG
Metronic Cryocath - Arctic Front
Kinova - Jaco

21. China – Canada Innovation for Health
MEDTEQ – Technologies of the Future,
Health of tomorrow
China – Canada
Innovation for Health