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Faculty Instructors
Research Guest Speakers
Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez, PhD
Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Quantitative Cell Biology and Morphogenesis, Institute of Biomedical Engineering
rodrigo.fernandez.gonzalez@utoronto.ca
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Entrepreneurship Guest Speakers
Feiran Zhou
Business Development and Commercialization Manager
Ontario Centre of Innovation
Pitch Competition Judges
SpinUp Startups Hosting INSPIRE Students
Ardra Inc.
Host: Mabel Wong, Operations Manager
Ardra is a precision fermentation company creating novel and natural food ingredients to address challenges in sustainable food production. We cater to emerging markets such as flavours, colours, plant-based meat alternatives, and health and nutrition. Our core technology involves designer microorganisms cultivated in fermenters to convert sugars into target natural ingredients.
Bough Biosciences
Host: Ben Kolisnyk, Founder and CEO
When overwhelmed with stress, cells can enter a zombie-like state known as senescence. The build-up of these cells in the brain has been linked to several neurological and neuropsychiatricdiseases, among others. Bough Biosciences will develop a novel approach to the discovery of drugs that will remove these senescent cells called senolytics, using a technology called single cell-RNA sequencing to understand what causes the build-up of these cells in different disease states.
Diaminopharm
Host: Rick Fu, Board Member
Diaminopharm is a chemical manufacturing start-up that uses our proprietary diamine platform for the expedited synthesis of functional libraries. We specialize in generating libraries of catalysts, artificial peptides, and organic materials. By rapid screening of our libraries through a combination of automation and artificial intelligence, we aim to accelerate the discovery of next-generation materials and catalysts.
MycoFutures
Host: Stephanie Lipp, CEO & Co-Founder
MycoFutures is a next-gen materials innovation startup creating a circular & low carbon mycelium-based leather alternative. Our material is animal-free, plastic-free and non-toxic, so the things we use every day can be better for people and the planet.
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