2025 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2025

Why be a scientific entrepreneur?

10 Jun 2025, 10:45

30m

Rm 134 (cap.154) (Arts Bldg., U.Sask.)

Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e) Physics in Medicine and Biology / Physique en médecine et en biologie (DPMB-DPMB) (DPMB) T1-12 Beyond the Paper: Building Products, Startups, and Solutions in Biophysics | Au-delà de l'article : créer des produits, des start-ups et des solutions dans le domaine de la biophysique (DPMB)

Speaker

Pieter Cullis (University of British Columbia)

Description

Dr. Pieter Cullis will talk about some of the work that he and co-workers have done that led to the Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine from the perspective of being a scientific entrepreneur, insights from spending most of one's career working half-time in academia and half-time in companies (both start-ups and not-for-profits), as well as some of the basic science involved.