XPRIZE Health Symposium
Join the XPRIZE Canada Hub for an exclusive opportunity for UCalgary health and life sciences researchers, students and startups to engage with XPRIZE Health and judges from the active XPRIZE Healthspan competition.
This event will allow attendees to learn about the XPRIZE Canada Hub and XPRIZE Health and future engagement opportunities. This will be followed by a panel of expert judges discussing their experiences and insights to the XPRIZE approach and innovation from their own local contexts.
Light refreshment will be provided.
Agenda
3:00 – 3:05 pm – Welcome and land acknowledgment – Dr. Braden Manns, Associate Vice-President (Health Research), UCalgary
3:05 – 3:15 pm – Overview of XPRIZE Canada Hub and how it supports Canadian investigators – Dr. William Ghali, Vice-President (Research), UCalgary
3:15 – 3:25 pm – Overview of XPRIZE Health domain - Dr. Jamie Justice, Executive Vice-President, Health, XPRIZE
3:25 -3:40 pm - Questions for XPRIZE and XPRIZE Canada Hub
3:40 - 4:25 pm – XPRIZE Healthspan Panel
Panelists:
Dr. Leslie Crews, Assistant Professor, Regenerative Medicine, University of San Diego
Dr. Susan Howlett, Professor, Pharmacology and Medicine, Dalhousie University
Dr. Stephen Kritchevsky, PhD, Endowed Professor in Geroscience, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Dr. Nathan LeBrasseur, Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Director, Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging, Mayo Clinic
Moderator:
Dr. Aaron Phillips, Associate Dean (Innovation and Commercialization, Cumming School of Medicine, UCalgary
4:25 – 4:30 pm – Event wrap-up and close