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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
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Calgary, Canada

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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: Director of Operations, Alberta Centre for Advanced Diagnostics (ACAD), University of Calgary and COO, Rapid Infection Diagnostics
Nicole Rosin: Research Associate, University of Calgary and CEO, Fibrodynamx
Victoria Hodgkinson, University of Calgary and CSO, Lumiio

Moderator:

Sid Gunamalai, Lead, Health & Life Sciences and agnostic sectors, University of Calgary

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