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An Academic Entrepreneur. Should You Do It?

Name: An Academic Entrepreneur. Should You Do It?
Start: 2025-09-23T10:45:00.000-06:00
End: 2025-09-23T11:45:00.000-06:00
Location: Platform

Life Sciences Week

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Calgary, Alberta

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About Event

How do researchers and academics successfully leap from lab bench to boardroom? This session explores commercialization pathways with founders and innovation experts who’ve done it. From biotech spinouts to digital health ventures, hear practical strategies and lessons learned.

Panelists:

Troy Feener, MSc: Director of Operations, Alberta Centre for Advanced Diagnostics (ACAD), Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary
Nicole Rosin, PhD: Lab Manager, Biernaskie Lab
TBC

Moderator:

Sid Gunamalai, Lead, Health & Life Sciences and agnostic sectors

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