The Clinic approved as Mitacs incubator

The Marnix E. Heersink School of Biomedical Innovation and Entrepreneurship, with support from Michael G. DeGroote Health Innovation, Commercialization and Entrepreneurship, are pleased to announce The Clinic has been approved as a Mitacs incubator.

The Mitacs Accelerate Entrepreneur program pays students and postdoctoral fellows to grow their start-ups and get to market faster. With the support of The Clinic, an approved incubator, Mitacs funding helps health innovators build professional entrepreneurial skills, with the goal of commercializing their start-up’s technology, product, or service through funded research internships.

Mitacs matches the start-up’s investment at 1:1 and releases a research award to student or post-doctoral entrepreneurs valued at $15,000 (at least $10,000 stipend and up to $5,000 for project costs). Student or postdoctoral entrepreneurs advance their academic work and their start-up’s commercialization goals with support through Residency @ The Clinic.

To qualify for Mitacs funding, applicants must be a current McMaster student or postdoctoral fellow, be a founder or owner of a health-focused start-up looking to advance the core technology, product, or service, and be an active member of The Clinic enrolled in the Residency program. An initial meeting with The Clinic’s program manager is the first step to review the stage of each health innovation and ensure all Mitacs application criteria are met.

The Clinic is proud to be one of only two approved incubators at McMaster University.

Learn more about Residency at The Clinic here.