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DESCRIPTION:The road from researcher to entrepreneur can be filled with roa
 dblocks and pitfalls\, but it can also be filled with rewarding successes.
  But how to know when the timing is right to take the plunge? And what to 
 expect when you do? Join us to hear from the experiences of researchers wh
 o have founded their own companies which are still running today. Our pane
 lists are Nancy Mayo and Alina Venereo-Sanchez.\n\nNancy is the CEO of Phy
 sioBiometrics\, a company focused on improving health through easy-to-use 
 devices. She is also a James McGill Professor in the Department of Medicin
 e and the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy at McGill University
  (Division of Geriatrics and Division of Clinical Epidemiology). Her compa
 ny was founded in 2019 and is a former winner of the MIF Deploy competitio
 n.\n\nAlina is the founder and CEO of VVector Bio\, a company developing i
 nnovative solutions for manufacturing viral vectors for cell and gene ther
 apies\, as well as vaccine applications. She completed her PhD at École Po
 lytechnique de Montreal in Chemical Engineering and then joined the Depart
 ment of Bioengineering at McGill University as a postdoctoral fellow in Pr
 ofessor Amine Kamen's lab. VVector Bio is a spin-out of McGill University\
 , and her mission as CEO is to make manufacturing cost-effective and effic
 ient\, which will accelerate the development of new therapies and improvin
 g access to these life-changing medicines for patients.\n\nRegistration is
  now open\n
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SUMMARY:MIF Lunch & Learn 20: From researcher to entrepreneur
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/channels/event/mif-lunch-learn-20-resear
 cher-entrepreneur-364305
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