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Four unique educational events in October and December
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ECHO PITCH 2023 will feature a keynote presentation followed by pitch presentations from our six venture finalists. The event will conclude with a dinner reception and award announcement.
| 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 – 4:15 PM | Keynote Presentation |
| Mr. Naheed Kurji President, Recursion Canada |
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| 4:15 – 5:00 PM | Pitch Competition – Session 1 |
| 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: Blue Ocean Technologies | |
| Pitch-2: CHI Diagnostics | |
| 5:00 – 5:20 PM | Break |
| 5:20 – 6:40 PM | Pitch Competition – Session 2 |
| Pitch-3: FocalViz | |
| Pitch-4: HDAX Therapeutics | |
| Pitch-5: iPOTS | |
| Pitch-6: Sonaro | |
| 6:40 – 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.