Corporate Backgrounder
MDS Nordion is a world leader in providing medical isotopes for molecular and diagnostic imaging, sterilization technologies for disease prevention, and radiotherapeutics for targeted therapy. It supplies 30 - 40 per cent of the world's medical isotopes to precisely diagnose, monitor and treat disease. Sterilization products and systems from MDS Nordion are used to sterilize more than 40 per cent of the world's single-use medical supplies, such as bandages, catheters and syringes, and to sterilize about 80 per cent of all surgical gloves in the world. MDS Nordion also partners with several worldwide leading academic centres on collaborative research and development, including the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, where MDS Nordion established a Molecular Imaging Centre of Excellence to advance cardiology research.