Ildar Khalikov visits research organisation MaRS Discovery District in Toronto
14 March 2014, Friday
On March 14 during his working trip to Canada (March 11-13), Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov visited MaRS Discovery District in Toronto.
MaRS Discovery District is a non-profit research corporation located in Discovery district in Toronto, adjacent to the University of Toronto, Queen’s park and Front Campus. Founded in 2000, the organisation is successfully working due to public and private funding. MaRS Discovery District conducts medical and IT researches. The centre consists of several modern buildings. Its laboratories are fitted with state-of-the-art equipment.
Welcoming the audience, Company’s Director for International Relations Earl Miller said that it was the honour for him to receive Tatarstan delegation, and noted high achievements of the republic in educational sphere.
Telling about the history of MaRS Discovery District, Earl Miller said that the company is located in a historic building built in 1910-1913. Here Frederick Banting and John Macleod discovered insulin and they were awarded the Noble Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1923.
Canadian Government and the Ministry of Economic Development, Innovations and Export are partners of MaRS Discovery District. Total amount of investments made 750 million Canadian dollars, and 3,700 jobs were provided in 2013.
Earl Miller also told that the greater part of investments is private.
Members of Tatarstan delegation looked around laboratories, where medical research is carried out, and MaRS Commons, a part of MaRS Discovery District, dealing with information technologies.
Summing up, Ildar Khalikov called MaRS Discovery District a unique project, facilitating implementation of venture ideas.
MaRS Discovery District is a non-profit research corporation located in Discovery district in Toronto, adjacent to the University of Toronto, Queen’s park and Front Campus. Founded in 2000, the organisation is successfully working due to public and private funding. MaRS Discovery District conducts medical and IT researches. The centre consists of several modern buildings. Its laboratories are fitted with state-of-the-art equipment.
Welcoming the audience, Company’s Director for International Relations Earl Miller said that it was the honour for him to receive Tatarstan delegation, and noted high achievements of the republic in educational sphere.
Telling about the history of MaRS Discovery District, Earl Miller said that the company is located in a historic building built in 1910-1913. Here Frederick Banting and John Macleod discovered insulin and they were awarded the Noble Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1923.
Canadian Government and the Ministry of Economic Development, Innovations and Export are partners of MaRS Discovery District. Total amount of investments made 750 million Canadian dollars, and 3,700 jobs were provided in 2013.
Earl Miller also told that the greater part of investments is private.
Members of Tatarstan delegation looked around laboratories, where medical research is carried out, and MaRS Commons, a part of MaRS Discovery District, dealing with information technologies.
Summing up, Ildar Khalikov called MaRS Discovery District a unique project, facilitating implementation of venture ideas.
Tatarstan President's Press Office
Share:
LATEST NEWS
21
April 2026
On 21 April, speaking at a briefing in the Government House of the republic, the Head of the Russian Federal Tax Service for Tatarstan Marat Safiullin said that slightly more than one week is left to file an income tax return for 2025 with the tax service. According to the results of the tax campaign 5.5.bn rubles should come to the regional budget, he said and informed who should submit declarations and who is entitled to benefits.
13
April 2026
On 13 April in his congratulatory address on the occasion of the Maecenas and Benefactor Day, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin congratulated residents of the republic with the event and wrote: "Tatarstan has always been known for its generous and kind-hearted people who are ready to help the needy and support important social, cultural and educational projects. We all remember with gratitude the outstanding philanthropists – the Akchurin brothers, the Alafuzovs, and the Ushkovs, whose good deeds and generous donations contributed to the development of culture, education, and healthcare in our republic. The glorious traditions are continued by modern philanthropists and patrons of Tatarstan.
12
April 2026
On 12 April in his address to residents of the republic, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin congratulated them with the Space Exploration Day and said: “April 12, 1961 has forever been inscribed into the world history as the day of triumph of the Soviet science and engineering thought. The flight of Yuriy Gagarin opened the way to the stars for the humankind and demonstrated to the whole world the might of our country.
10
April 2026
On 4 April , speaking at a closing ceremony of the XX Russian Venture Forum held at the Kazan Expo Exhibition Center, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin said that the Russian Venture Forum has confirmed its status of the point of attraction of technological development leaders.
The Forum created a unified scientific, technological and investment space where scientific ideas are transformed into competitive products, and startups gain access to capital and markets. Its business programme is organically integrated into the regional and federal agenda for achieving technological sovereignty and leadership of Russia, he said.
SUBSCRIBE FOR NEWS
Address: Kazan, Ploschad Svobody, 1, 420060
Phone:
+7 (843) 264-77-74
E-Mail: prav@tatar.ru
All content on this site is licensed under
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
If you see a mistake,
please select the word or sentence and press CTRL+ENTER