President Biden’s Executive Fiat Continues: New Executive Order Expanding Federal Control Over Health Care Misses the Mark
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, President Joe Biden signed an executive order on health care that opens a “Special Enrollment Period” for Americans to sign up for healthcare coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and changes rules related to Medicaid. Hadley Heath Manning, Independent Women’s Forum policy director and health policy expert, released the following statement:
“Policymakers understand that the reason the Affordable Care Act instituted an open enrollment period in the first place was to discourage consumers from signing up for coverage only when they get sick. Of course, the extenuating circumstances of the pandemic have put many Americans in difficult and uncertain circumstances regarding their health and financial security. That said, reopening the open enrollment window is not likely to mitigate this, as qualifying life events, such as job loss, always trigger an opportunity to enroll in ACA coverage. What Americans really need are better, more affordable options for health insurance—options destroyed by the ACA—not just more time to sign up.
“Similarly, any effort to make Medicaid more accessible misses the point: Having Medicaid doesn't prevent anyone from developing COVID-19, nor does it promise better health outcomes more broadly. Instead, making it easier to enroll in Medicaid invites more Americans onto a social safety net that is already stretched too thin and is thereby failing those who depend on it most. And sadly, the move to reduce states' flexibility to customize the Medicaid program for their populations is a misguided move that will get in the way of positive state-level reforms that would actually strengthen the program for the sick and vulnerable poor.
“A better direction for health reform would be for President Biden to focus on transparency and choice for patients, as the Trump administration did. Biden has signaled support for healthcare price transparency; the real test will be whether he preserves the transformative price transparency policies put into place by his predecessor. We are watching with hope that this positive reform will ultimately be allowed to work in patients’ favor, resulting in more information, more certainty, and perhaps most importantly, lower costs and better access to care.”
Make ‘Go on a Diet’ Resolutions Obsolete with the Whole Person Integrative Eating Program
San Francisco, CA, January 28, 2021 — What if you never again need to make a New Year’s resolution to lose weight or “go on a diet” because your most-of-the-time way of eating empowers you to eat and weigh less? Original, pioneering research by holistic nutrition researcher Deborah Kesten, M.P.H., and behavioral scientist Larry Scherwitz, Ph.D.—authors of the award-winning Whole Person Integrative Eating: A Breakthrough Dietary Lifestyle to Treat the Root Causes of Overeating, Overweight, and Obesity—reveals that replacing the complex reasons you overeat— called “overeating styles”—with the scientifically sound Whole Person Integrative Eating (WPIE) dietary lifestyle (meaning, WPIE is a way of life; it’s not a traditional diet) may make weight-loss resolutions obsolete.
“Now is the time to ‘reset’ and rethink what and how we eat; to replace traditional dieting with a scientifically sound way of eating that lessens overeating and that leads naturally to weight loss, health and healing,” says Kesten.
Kesten and Scherwitz share a simple yet powerful premise: Identify the reasons you overeat (your overeating styles) and gain weight—with the illuminating self-assessment quiz—then overcome overeating and lose weight by replacing your overeating styles with the antidotes: the elements of the Whole Person Integrative Eating program.
By shedding light on the root causes of overeating, Kesten and Scherwitz present a program that empowers readers with a personalized plan, and in turn new hope and new choices to help them reduce overeating, lose weight and keep it off.
WPIE is not a diet that a person goes on … then off. It is a scientifically sound, dietary lifestyle designed to be practiced for a lifetime.
"If people follow the revolutionary program outlined in this game-changing, insightful book, it may be the most helpful step they can take toward losing weight and keeping it off," says bestselling author Kenneth Pelletier, M.D., Ph.D., clinical professor of medicine at University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco.
The authors’ paradigm-shifting message is that food influences not only the physical dimensions of health, but also our emotional, spiritual and social well-being. Their dietary lifestyle can build bridges between the millions who struggle with overeating and weight issues and the medical community. And it can inspire us all to re-envision our relationships with food, eating and weight, so that each time we eat, we are nourished … for life.
Deborah Kesten, M.P.H.,is an international nutrition researcher, award-winning author and health journalist, with a specialty in preventing and reversing obesity and heart disease. She is also an experienced, expert speaker and presenter—from TV and podcast interviews to large conferences and small-group workshops.
Kesten served as Nutritionist on Dean Ornish, M.D.’s first clinical trial for reversing heart disease through lifestyle changes, the results of which were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. She was Director of Nutrition at cardiovascular clinics in Europe and on the Board of Directors of the American Heart Association, San Francisco.
Kesten has published more than 400 nutrition and health articles. Her first book, Feeding the Body, Nourishing the Soul, received the first-place gold award in the Spirituality category from the Independent Publisher Book Awards. Whole Person Integrative Eating has been honored with the No.1 gold, best-book award in the Health category by Book Excellence Awards and is a No. 1 Amazon best seller. Kesten is a VIP Contributor at Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global, and is married to behavioral scientist and co-author of Whole Person Integrative Eating, Larry Scherwitz, Ph.D.
Slay Your Goals in 2021: Journaling Can Give Your Dreams Clarity
Sacramento, CA, January 28, 2021 — Whatever your hopes and dreams are for the new year, writing down your thoughts in a safe space free from outside opinions and constructs can help you crystalize your goals and chart a path toward positive change.
“What we envision becomes what we have,” writes award-winning, best-selling author and licensed psychotherapist Michaela Renee Johnson. “Have you ever noticed that when you are considering getting a new car, you start to see that model of car everywhere? The same is true for our goals. When we start to visualize them, our actions subconsciously move us in the direction of our dream.”
Johnson gives women the tools to do just that in Empowered: A Motivational Journal for Women. Designed to help you connect with your deeper self and visualize your intentions through creative exercises, Empowered contains inspirational writing prompts and thought-provoking quotes to encourage you to open your mind, manifest your goals and reflect on your dreams.
Organized around the themes of dream, believe and achieve, Empoweredincludes exercises that ask you to explore your feelings and thoughts through writing, while others encourage you to go beyond the book to meditate, listen to music or enjoy nature―and return to contemplate your experiences. There’s no right or wrong way to use this motivational journal; the important thing is to begin.
Empowered: A Motivational Journal for Women provides:
Creative freedom―Explore out-of-the-box ideas like drawing and coloring, creating a vision board, or crafting a reflective poem.
Your own space―The colorful, beautifully illustrated modern layout gives you abundant room to express yourself directly in the pages of this motivational journal.
Inspiring words―Cultivate a positive mindset with quotes from influential women like Alice Walker, Amelia Earhart and Michelle Obama.
You can unlock your true potential and create positive changes in your life―and journaling is a powerful way to start.
Michaela Renee Johnson is an award-winning, best-selling author, licensed psychotherapist and host of the top iTunes podcast, Be You Find Happy, which encourages people to speak their truth with grace and live a courageous life of authenticity. Her initiative, Be You Find Happy, holds workshops and conversations on finding happiness in spite of life's setbacks and has landed her speaking opportunities across the nation. She is an avid adventurer, having traveled to more than 20 countries, and self-proclaimed "Boho Mom" who loves all things metaphysical as well as poetic quotes. She is a Sagittarius and an ocean-lover who lives in Northern California with her husband and young son, and a homestead full of animals. In her spare time, she's often hiking, doing yoga, gardening, golfing or reading.
So-Called Normal Shares Gripping True Story of Suicide Attempt Survival and Resilience
New York NY, January 28, 2021 — By age 15, depression and anxiety had taken their toll on Mark Henick. Clinging to an outside girder on an overpass, a deeply troubled Henick made the only decision he thought he could. And he let go.
Henick’s newly released book, So-Called Normal: A Memoir of Family, Depression and Resilience, aims to break the relentless stigma of mental illness through his candid, intensely personal account of his youth, the events that led to that fateful night on the bridge, and the experiences and transformation that followed. Henick takes readers inside the mind of a boy who had to deal with the breakdown of his parents’ marriage, an abusive stepfather, bullying and trauma — all while trying to navigate his progressively worsening mental health. In the backdrop is a community that didn’t talk about mental illness, one where silence and maintaining the comforts of “normal” was paramount.
So-Called Normal is a vital, triumphant story of perseverance and recovery that has already touched the hearts of many, including television personality Rosie O’Donnell.
“Mark Henick is a powerful storyteller. His vivid account of his early years as a depressed, suicidal teenager is a page-turner. So-Called Normal is beautifully written, heart-wrenching, and hopeful. Necessary reading for anyone who wants a peek inside the mind of someone who journeyed through mental illness and found hope on the other side,” O’Donnell said.
Author Mark Henick’s TEDx talk, Why We Choose Suicide, is one of the most watched in the world and has been viewed millions of times. His search for “the man in the brown jacket” whose bravery and strong arms kept him from falling to his death went viral around the world (and was successful!). Henick has been on television and radio and has written many articles on mental health. He has hosted more than 60 intimate conversations about mental health with notable public figures and celebrities on his podcast, So-Called Normal, and has executive produced and hosted the Living Well podcast for Morneau Shepell. Henick has served on the board of directors for the Mental Health Commission of Canada, and was the president of a provincial division of the Canadian Mental Health Association — the youngest person in either role. He has worked as a frontline clinician, a program manager and the national director of strategic initiatives for CMHA. Currently the CEO and principal strategist for Strategic Mental Health Consulting, Mark Henick is in high demand as an international keynote speaker on mental health recovery.
New Book Empowers, Challenges Gay Men to Own their Truths
Seattle, WA, January 28, 2021 — Acceptance of homosexuality and same-sex marriage has increased dramatically over the past two decades, but this expanding approval from society at large does nothing to negate the internal struggles that most gay men face — particularly young gay men — in response to familial and societal expectations. Their road toward self-discovery is long and arduous, pockmarked by generational biases and homophobic messaging. An introspective tug-of-war wages each time a new milestone approaches, and with no clear path in sight, many gay men simply find themselves in a proverbial roundabout, trapped in an endless loop of no-win situations.
“If we don’t live honestly and openly, we won’t have the skills, wisdom, or relationships necessary to manifest our dreams,” says Britt East, author of A Gay Man's Guide to Life: Get Real, Stand Tall, and Take Your Place. “But when we do come out, we must confront the full force of societal homophobia, and consider a variety of questions.”
Among those uncertainties are how to create a family without mimicking the norms of a straight society; how to overcome internalized homophobia and cultivate sustainable gay friendships; and, in a world of hook-up apps and disposable relationships, how to find lasting love.
AGay Man’s Guide to Life, which ispart memoir and part inspirational guidebook, addresses these crucial topics and many others, through the lens of a gay man, for gay men everywhere.
Britt candidly and vividly shares his own traumatic, personal journey, and uses his experiences and insights to inform an approachable, no-nonsense path to help gay men set down excuses and get to the business of improving the most important facets of their lives, including body, mind, spirit, career, family and more. He offers hope and support, giving readers the sense of family that perhaps they never had. AGay Man’s Guide to Life is not comprised ofnew-age mumbo jumbo or wishy-washy self-help jargon. It is about real work focused on real results to help members of the gay community.
At its core, AGay Man’s Guide to Life is a manual for personal growth and development, with plenty of pragmatic advice to challenge and inspire gay men to uncover their true selves and live their best lives.
Britt East is an author and speaker who uses his experience, strength and hope to challenge and inspire change-oriented gay men to get down to the business of improving their lives. With over two decades of personal growth and development experience in a variety of modalities, such as the 12 Steps, Nonviolent Communication, yoga, meditation, talk therapy and the Hoffman Process, Britt is committed to building a personal practice of self-discovery that he can then share with gay men everywhere. He lives in Seattle with his husband and their crazy dog.
For more insights from the author, please visit www.britteast.com, or follow him on Instagram (@britteast); Twitter (@britteast); or Facebook (@brittdawsoneast).
A Gay Man's Guide to Life: Get Real, Stand Tall, and Take Your Place
Publisher: Houndstooth Press
ISBN-10: 1544509227
ISBN-13: 978-1544509228
Available from Amazon.com, BN.com, Apple Books and many online outlets
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Tips for Slowly Getting Back Into Fitness After an Injury
Suffering an injury can slow your workout momentum, forcing you to keep off the gym for a long duration. While most doctors may recommend resting as the best approach, your body needs to keep fighting, to remain vigilant. The following guidelines can help you get back on track sooner after an injury.
Have a Timeline
Different types of injuries have varying healing duration. Depending on how severe your illness may be, you can approximate the time that it will take for you to recover. For minor injuries, you may be fit to resume your schedule after a month or less. However, severe injuries such as broken legs may keep you out of the game longer. You can start with simple activities and increase in small bits slowly until you fully recover. If the injury has prevented you from walking for a long time, take it slow, and prevent vigorous activities, to allow your body time to adapt.
Keep Your Body Active
Despite that you may be experiencing pain, your body needs to remain active to enhance speedy recovery. Choose effortless exercises that can help your muscles to stay alert. If you underwent surgery or you suffered a leg injury, tricep presses and bicep curls may be of significant help to you. Your doctor can help you with the ideal physical therapy to hasten your recovery process. Take advantage of the muscles that are in perfect health to support your healing process. Do not be quick to engage in vigorous fitness activity, even after the doctor’s go ahead. You can start with slow yoga and then accelerate as you continue gaining fitness. Keeping your body active helps your muscles to gain momentum, which you need to get back in your schedule.
Take a Break From Weight Lifting
Weight lifting is delicate to return to after being away with an injury. That way, you may want to extend your break before you can go back to the gym. However, small weights can help you build your confidence as you wait for the green light. It is wise to be patient until your physician allows you to resume weight lifting exercise.
Regardless of the severity of your injury, give your body time to recover. As you get ready to resume your fitness schedule, you must take extra precautions to keep off setback risks that may wreck your recovery progress or even inflict another injury. You can regain full fitness by observing all the necessary steps and by avoiding anxieties.
Your Veterinarian Needs Help
Atlanta, GA, January 28, 2021 — Your veterinarian chose to dedicate his or her life to the altruistic pursuit of tending to the health and lives of pets. What you may not have considered is that the health and life of your veterinarian also needs protecting: he or she is nearly four times more likely to die by suicide than someone among the general population. But there are ways you can help.
Sandy Weaver, author of the groundbreaking new book Happy Vet Happy Pet: Caring for Your Pet’s Caregiver, is on a mission to ease the lives of veterinarians, one client’s heart at a time.
“I’ve known for years, as have those in the veterinary field, that there was an issue with suicide and veterinarians,” Sandy says. “Then in early 2019, the CDC report on veterinary suicide was published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, and what had been anecdotal became data: male veterinarians are 2.1 times more likely, and female veterinarians are 3.5 times more likely, to complete suicide than their non-veterinarian peers.”
Happy Vet Happy Pet is a distillation of Sandy’s research into neuroscience, neuroplasticity and positive psychology mixed with data from the CDC report. The result is an impactful approach that weaves easy-to-understand science with stories that touch the minds and the hearts of pet owners — empowering them to be part of the solution.
Chapters dive deep into topics all pet owners should understand, including:
1. The heart, mind and life of a person who decides to become a veterinarian; 2. The very human, very vulnerable person behind the scrubs; 3. The ways clients unknowingly mistreat their pets’ caregivers; 4. Three simple rules to follow to help your veterinary team; and 5. What to do if you feel that someone near you is facing suicidal desperation.
Happy Vet Happy Pet shares Sandy’s unique point of view that it takes a village to save a veterinarian. “Making pet owners mindful of how their behavior impacts their veterinarian mobilizes the village to help solve the problem,” she adds.
This book will change your relationship with your veterinarian and their team forever. And what you learn in this book could save your veterinarian's life.
Author Sandy Weaver is an expert speaker, trainer, mastermind facilitator and lover of all things dog.
As the Program Director of the Center for Workplace Happiness, Sandy creates the training programs, workshops, mastermind groups and keynotes that help people lead happier, more successful lives. She is also a citizen-scientist in the fields of neuroscience, neuroplasticity and positive psychology. In 2019, she took the resilience tools and strategies she’d been teaching to general audiences and crafted programs specifically for veterinary teams. Her goal is to touch the life of every veterinarian and technician in a way that helps them avoid the pain and despair that comes with an inability to manage stress.
Now in her 40th year of Siberian Husky ownership, Sandy is a passionate advocate for veterinarians and their teams and an ongoing donor to Not One More Vet.
Make ‘Go on a Diet’ Resolutions Obsolete with the Whole Person Integrative Eating Program
San Francisco, CA, January 27, 2021 — What if you never again need to make a New Year’s resolution to lose weight or “go on a diet” because your most-of-the-time way of eating empowers you to eat and weigh less? Original, pioneering research by holistic nutrition researcher Deborah Kesten, M.P.H., and behavioral scientist Larry Scherwitz, Ph.D.—authors of the award-winning Whole Person Integrative Eating: A Breakthrough Dietary Lifestyle to Treat the Root Causes of Overeating, Overweight, and Obesity—reveals that replacing the complex reasons you overeat— called “overeating styles”—with the scientifically sound Whole Person Integrative Eating (WPIE) dietary lifestyle (meaning, WPIE is a way of life; it’s not a traditional diet) may make weight-loss resolutions obsolete.
“Now is the time to ‘reset’ and rethink what and how we eat; to replace traditional dieting with a scientifically sound way of eating that lessens overeating and that leads naturally to weight loss, health and healing,” says Kesten.
Kesten and Scherwitz share a simple yet powerful premise: Identify the reasons you overeat (your overeating styles) and gain weight—with the illuminating self-assessment quiz—then overcome overeating and lose weight by replacing your overeating styles with the antidotes: the elements of the Whole Person Integrative Eating program.
By shedding light on the root causes of overeating, Kesten and Scherwitz present a program that empowers readers with a personalized plan, and in turn new hope and new choices to help them reduce overeating, lose weight and keep it off.
WPIE is not a diet that a person goes on … then off. It is a scientifically sound, dietary lifestyle designed to be practiced for a lifetime.
"If people follow the revolutionary program outlined in this game-changing, insightful book, it may be the most helpful step they can take toward losing weight and keeping it off," says bestselling author Kenneth Pelletier, M.D., Ph.D., clinical professor of medicine at University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco.
The authors’ paradigm-shifting message is that food influences not only the physical dimensions of health, but also our emotional, spiritual and social well-being. Their dietary lifestyle can build bridges between the millions who struggle with overeating and weight issues and the medical community. And it can inspire us all to re-envision our relationships with food, eating and weight, so that each time we eat, we are nourished … for life.
Deborah Kesten, M.P.H.,is an international nutrition researcher, award-winning author and health journalist, with a specialty in preventing and reversing obesity and heart disease. She is also an experienced, expert speaker and presenter—from TV and podcast interviews to large conferences and small-group workshops.
Kesten served as Nutritionist on Dean Ornish, M.D.’s first clinical trial for reversing heart disease through lifestyle changes, the results of which were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. She was Director of Nutrition at cardiovascular clinics in Europe and on the Board of Directors of the American Heart Association, San Francisco.
Kesten has published more than 400 nutrition and health articles. Her first book, Feeding the Body, Nourishing the Soul, received the first-place gold award in the Spirituality category from the Independent Publisher Book Awards. Whole Person Integrative Eating has been honored with the No.1 gold, best-book award in the Health category by Book Excellence Awards and is a No. 1 Amazon best seller. Kesten is a VIP Contributor at Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global, and is married to behavioral scientist and co-author of Whole Person Integrative Eating, Larry Scherwitz, Ph.D.
Ron Soskolne Joins Mcmaster Innovation Park Development Advisory Panel
January 27, 2021 10:30 ET
HAMILTON, ON, Jan. 27, 2021 /CNW/ - McMaster Innovation Park (MIP) announced today that Ron Soskolne has joined MIP's Park Development Advisory Panel as Chief Park Development Advisor.
MIP is planning massive expansion whereby the park will expand from 700 thousand sq. ft. to 2.8 million sq. ft., with a focus on Life Sciences. The plan is to develop a 'Life Science MegaHub' that will constitute the west end of a life science corridor spanning from Hamilton to Toronto.
Ron Soskolne comes to MIP at a critical period when Canada ranks second globally in its ability to translate academic output to intellectual property, but ranks only fifth in commercialization of that IP, and in last place in respect to its record of scaling our IP up to commercial levels.
Ty Shattuck, the CEO of MIP commented "Today, entrepreneurs, leading global companies and investors in the life sciences increasingly see the Toronto-GTA-Hamilton area as a global-calibre life sciences corridor. MIP plays an important and growing role accelerating the development of our life sciences economy and infrastructure. Ron's unique expertise is helping us to evolve MIP's campus to become a global calibre destination for life sciences innovators, and a catalyst for the elevation of promising IP, ultimately for deployment on a commercial scale."
He added, "It has become abundantly clear that it is in Canada's interests to advance the commercialization of life sciences in Canada with specialized facilities where companies can manufacture at scale and bring together research, innovation, and capital to produce therapies and cures serving our domestic and global markets. For the last two years, this has been MIP's primary mission. We see life sciences as analogous to a renewable resource for Canada, where even one discovery is capable of creating sustained long term economic value, while addressing global needs."
Ty Shattuck added "We are delighted that Ron has agreed to join MIP's Development Advisory Panel as Chief Development Advisor. Together, we have the opportunity to think at a global level about what shapes an effective innovation ecosystem and helps to create an economic engine for Canada at a time when the importance of life sciences has never been more front-and-centre. Ron understands that in an innovation context, connections are critically important. Our strategy is to build a physical and social environment that promotes creative collisions and collaborations which advance the business aspirations of our tenant companies."
Within the global real estate industry, Mr. Soskolne is the reference for directing the planning of vibrant and iconic urban destinations. His firm, Soskolne Associates, is a real-estate development consultancy that specializes in large-scale mixed-use developments and public/private projects. The firm's advisory mandates have spanned Canary Wharf in London, Yonge & Dundas Square and the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto, Downtown Disneyland in Anaheim, and the World Financial Centre in New York City. Many of these were "regeneration" projects – new uses for former industrial sites and tired urban areas.
Mr. Soskolne commented, "I am very excited about MIP's thinking about how placemaking relates to and can influence the inherently complex process of innovation, and by the potential that that idea holds. This resonated for me based on my own experience." He added, "I was intrigued and excited about how MIP is envisioning the development aspects of MIP's growth, and how MIP sees the innovation park as much more than just a collection of buildings."
Soskolne is known for developing complexes of buildings that become destinations and gathering places in their own right. He specializes in master planning large scale urban regeneration projects and mixed-use developments –often including major public spaces.
About MIP
McMaster Innovation Park (MIP) is Canada's premier research park based in the heart of southwestern Ontario and home to over one hundred companies in the Life Science, Engineering & Advanced Manufacturing and high-tech sectors. MIP's proven ability to support and grow mid-market / SME enterprises results in faster, more economically impactful, and lower risk investments for government and private investors alike.
New Canadian Pharmaceutical Company Brings Novel Cancer Therapies to Market
TORONTO, Jan. 27, 2021 /CNW Telbec/ - FORUS Therapeutics launches today, bringing a new pharmaceutical company onto the Canadian landscape. With a highly-experienced and proven team, an FDA-approved product already in its pipeline, and significant financial investment secured, the Toronto-based company looks to bring innovative cancer therapies to Canadian patients, new treatment tools for caregivers and physicians, and in the future, be a preferred partner for emerging Canadian-based research companies.
To support its launch, FORUS has raised approximately $20 million from investors that include adMare BioInnovations, Canada's global life sciences venture, and sophisticated international and institutional investors.
FORUS has also secured an exclusive Canadian distribution agreement with Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: KPTI) for the commercialization of XPOVIO® (selinexor), an FDA-approved cancer medicine for adults with Multiple Myeloma and Lymphoma. "We are thrilled to launch on the heels of our first licensing agreement to deliver a novel cancer treatment for Canadians," said Kevin Leshuk, Founder and President of FORUS.
Multiple Myeloma is the second most common blood cancer. Every year, 3,400 Canadians are diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, and sadly 1,600 die from the disease. FORUS will submit XPOVIO® to Health Canada for approval in the coming months.
"We are investing in and supporting the launch of FORUS to address a major gap in the Canadian life sciences ecosystem," said Gordon C. McCauley, President and CEO of adMare BioInnovations. "We have an abundance of world-leading health research, a growing industry to translate that research into new therapeutics, but we have limited home-grown companies to bring these innovations directly to Canadian patients. FORUS begins to fill this gap by connecting medical innovations with the healthcare and patient communities across the country."
"We're turning the traditional start-up model upside down," said Leshuk. Biopharmaceutical start-ups typically begin with early research, then undergo an arduous process of translating the research into a product, which can take at least a decade and have high associated failure rates. In this case, FORUS is starting on strong footing with an FDA-approved product already in place, considerable investment, and an experienced team. The company will move quickly to identify and secure development partnerships with Canadian research companies and globally-sourced innovations.
Leshuk brings over 25 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. He and the FORUS founding team have delivered significant financial returns; andsince 2009, secured 12 Health Canada approvals, including five in Multiple Myeloma. The FORUS goal is to continue this track record of success and bring important new medicines to Canadians to actively contribute to the Canadian life sciences innovation ecosystem.
About FORUS Therapeutics
FORUS Therapeutics is a Canadian biopharmaceutical company dedicated to advancing differentiated, novel medicines for hematologic malignancies and other forms of cancer. Our mission is to bring solutions to cancer patients, caregivers, physicians and our partners by accelerating unique and important treatments that meaningfully enhance life. forustherapeutics.com
About adMare BioInnovations
adMare BioInnovations is Canada's global life sciences venture, building the Canadian life sciences industry from sea to sea. We do this by sourcing therapeutically and commercially promising research from leading academic and biotech partners to create new companies of scale, providing specialized expertise, infrastructure, and capital to help existing companies scale up, and drive the growth of those companies into Canadian anchors by training the next generation of highly qualified personnel. adMare's ~20 portfolio companies have attracted more than $1.15 billion in investment and have a combined worth of over $2.3 billion. admarebio.com
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