I am the Director of Commercialization for the Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. The JGH has a dedicated research arm, the Lady Davis Institute, which has more than 200 clinical and bench researchers working on a variety of topics. Most of the funding for these activities come from large granting organizations (NIH or CIHR) but some of them - very promising ones - don't get funding in a hypercompetitive environment. My job is to choose the most promising projects that lead to treatments, cures and vaccines, and find a way to fund them, even though they are early stage.
