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Versant Ventures, an American venture capital firm focused on life sciences, has chosen Vancouver to create new early stage drug development companies that are built to be sold to big pharmaceutical companies on Versant’s “build to buy” model.

Bob Kuhn has been appointed chancellor at Trinity Western University for a five-year term, commencing January 1, 2014. Kuhn will serve as an adviser to the incoming president and act as the ceremonial head of TWU. Kuhn’s current title has changed from interim president to acting president while the formal presidential search continues.

A Vancouver startup with some serious supercomputing credentials behind it has partnered with SAP AG (NYSE:SAP), a global leader in enterprise software, to bring big data analysis to health care and medical research.

OpenRoad Communications, a Vancouver-based website developer, has bolstered its design expertise with the acquisition of a smaller Vancouver company, Mod7.

BroadbandTV CEO Shahrzad Rafati took home the Executive of the Year award at nextMEDIA's annual Digi Awards in Toronto December 3, making her the first woman to achieve this honour.

Geordie Rose, whose company – D-Wave – built the world’s first commercial quantum computer, has been named to Foreign Policy Magazine’s Top 100 Global Thinkers list.

The Centre for Drug Research and Development’s venture arm, CDRD Ventures Inc., has spun out a new biotechnology firm that plans to begin clinical trials soon on a new nanoparticulate drug delivery method designed to improve drug absorption for treating bladder cancer.

Microsoft keeping new triple-A game being developed in Vancouver under wraps