The Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI) today announced that 14 pan-Canadian project teams have been approved to receive funding through its first Digital Health Innovation Fund (DHIF), a national funding program led by TFRI’s Digital Health & Discovery Platform (DHDP).
The selected projects represent a total value of $40.9M and bring together 55 partners from across Canada—small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), academic institutions, and healthcare organizations—to accelerate health data sharing for AI-driven discovery in precision medicine.
“TFRI is excited to announce the Digital Health Innovation Fund project teams that will help accelerate safe and secure health data sharing for precision medicine advances across Canada,” said Dr. Jim Woodgett, TFRI’s President and Scientific Director. “These collaborations show research and enterprise coming together to drive innovation and accelerate clinical care, enabling personalized treatments tailored to the individual patient.”
The projects will leverage the DHDP’s novel federated learning platform to unlock new collaborations through secure data sharing and analysis. Using the DHDP, researchers can analyze vast amounts of complex health data across institutions without moving it, preserving privacy while unlocking new insights using artificial intelligence and machine learning. Teams will work to improve diagnosis and treatment across cancer, neurodegenerative disease, diabetes, ophthalmology, and other conditions.
