Entrepreneurship for Cardiovascular Health Opportunities (ECHO) is a 12-month national training program supporting cardiovascular research commercialization through education, mentorship, networking, and funding. Led by a diverse team of experts, ECHO fosters...
Entrepreneurship for Cardiovascular Health Opportunities (ECHO) is a 12-month national training program supporting cardiovascular research commercialization through education, mentorship, networking, and funding. Led by a diverse team of experts, ECHO fosters...
Entrepreneurship for Cardiovascular Health Opportunities (ECHO) is a 12-month national training program supporting cardiovascular research commercialization through education, mentorship, networking, and funding. Led by a diverse team of experts, ECHO fosters...
Entrepreneurship for Cardiovascular Health Opportunities (ECHO) is a 12-month national training program supporting cardiovascular research commercialization through education, mentorship, networking, and funding. Led by a diverse team of experts, ECHO fosters...
The Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research is thrilled to welcome Dr. Cedric Manlhiot as the inaugural Rogers Innovator of Cardiovascular Precision Medicine at SickKids. In addition to his role at TRCHR, Dr. Manlhiot will be a Scientist in the Translational Medicine...
Entrepreneurship for Cardiovascular Health Opportunities (ECHO) is a 12-month national training program supporting cardiovascular research commercialization through education, mentorship, networking, and funding. Led by a diverse team of experts, ECHO fosters...
ECHO PITCH 2024 will feature a keynote presentation followed by pitch presentations from our four venture finalists. The event will conclude with a dinner reception and award announcement.
| Time | Details |
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| 3:00 – 3:30 PM | Registration & Networking |
| 3:30 – 3:40 PM | Introductions |
| Dr. Soror Sharifpoor Director-Strategy & Translation, Translational Biology and Engineering Program, University of Toronto, Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research |
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| Dr. Derek Newton Assistant Vice-President, Innovation, Partnerships and Entrepreneurship, University of Toronto |
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| Dr. Mansoor Husain Executive Director, Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research |
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| 3:40 – 4:25 PM | Keynote Presentation |
| Dr. Jennifer N. Avari Silva Director of Pediatric Electrophysiology, Professor of Pediatrics and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty Fellow in Entrepreneurship, Washington University SOM Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer, Sentiar, Inc., Co-Founder & Consultant, Excera, Inc. |
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| 4:25 – 4:50 PM | Break |
| 4:50 – 6:30 PM | Pitch Competition |
| Dr. Soror Sharifpoor Director-Strategy & Translation, Translational Biology and Engineering Program, University of Toronto, Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research |
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| Pitch-1: AVA | |
| Pitch-2: Leynek Medical | |
| Pitch-3: NorthMiRs | |
| Pitch-4: Panorama Health | |
| 6:30 – 8:00 PM | Dinner Reception & Award Presentation |
| Prof. Craig Simmons Scientific Lead, Translational Biology and Engineering Program, University of Toronto, Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research |
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| 8:00 PM | Program Close |
Scientific Lead, Cardiac Precision Medicine Program
Dr. Seema Mital is a Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist and Head of Cardiovascular Research at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. She is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto and a Senior Scientist at the SickKids Research Institute. She is also the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada / Robert M Freedom Chair of Cardiovascular Science, and Scientific Lead of the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research. Mital has a strong translational research program focused on genomics, pharmacogenomics and stem cell applications to model childhood heart disease and discover new therapies. She has extensive experience in the genetics/genomics of congenital heart disease and heart failure, personalized medicine and clinical trials. She established the SickKids Heart Centre Biobank, a multi-centre biorepository of children and adults with childhood onset heart disease for genomics research, one of the largest international repositories of its kind. Mital is the Principal Investigator of the CIHR-funded INSERT-HCM multi-centre project aimed at implementing digital health technology, the NIH-funded Pediatric Heart Network for clinical trials, and leads the international ERAPerMed funded PROCEED network for Personalized Genomics in congenital heart disease.