Supporting partnerships, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Past: biotech bus dev (🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦) & co-founder. Views are my own.
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May 29
What an amazing week, @TOtechweek! Congratulations.
Learned a lot. Networked even more.
Buoyed by the optimism and the use of AI to build quickly! Amazing time to be an entrepreneur.
Looking forward to next year.
I’ll be watching for @tobi driving a Luce around the city.
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Jun 14
1/ Cyclic Materials is a Toronto startup pulling rare earth metals out of dead magnets. In a world where China controls 90% of rare earth processing, that's a real problem they're actually solving.
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How will AI & chemistry intersect in 2050? And what does the future of scientific discovery look like in the age of AI? Read a new essay by AC Director & @UofT Prof. Alán Aspuru-Guzik, published by @americanacad amacad.org/publication/daeda…
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Jun 9
Can’t wait for TO show!
Jun 8
🚨 Rush is back on the road!
Fifty-something years strong, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson have reunited as Rush for their Fifty Something Tour, honoring the legendary Neil Peart and celebrating their incredible legacy. German drum powerhouse Anika Nilles (ex-Jeff Beck) is stepping in on drums with massive skill and respect for the Professor’s iconic style. rollingstone.com
Looks like Anika Nile’s is nailing here role !
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Somewhere in the GTA sits one of Canada’s most powerful supercomputers, helping researchers simulate oceans, model stars, and run massive AI workloads.
Take a look inside the @UofT-run facility housing Trillium.
betakit.com/inside-the-gta-f…
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The AC is proud to be part of @UofT's long-standing expertise in artificial intelligence, and we welcome the Government of Canada’s new national AI strategy. We look forward to continuing our work with our partners to advance shared priorities & scale AI adoption responsibly.
Jun 4
AI for All: pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releas…
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Jun 5
AI already supports 150,000 jobs in Canada, and more than 800,000 people work across ourbroader digital economy.
Our new strategy, AI for All, invests $350 million in Canadian AI institutions like @VectorInst, so that AI is developed here — safely, responsibly, and to benefit of all Canadians.
ALT Prime Minister Carney tours an artificial intelligence institute in Toronto, Ontario.
ALT Prime Minister Carney tours an artificial intelligence institute in Toronto, Ontario.
ALT Prime Minister Carney tours an artificial intelligence institute in Toronto, Ontario.
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Jun 4
We just launched Canada’s new AI Strategy: AI For All.
We’re taking control of our future — with AI that’s governed by Canadian values, AI that’s accountable to Canadians, and AI that serves all Canadians.
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👏🏽 BIG News from @UofT_TCAIREM members @AmolAVerma and @DrFahadRazak!
theglobeandmail.com/business…
#AIhealth #AI #HealthAI #MedTech
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Our 2025 Diabetes Team of the Year is the Langs Diabetes Education Program in Cambridge. The award recognizes a team’s efforts and achievements that go above and beyond evidence-based practices in diabetes education, patient care, or advocacy. Learn more! bbdc.org/news/langs-diabetes…
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U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device: uofteng.ca/d9947n
ALT U of T Engineering professor Nicolas Papernot sitting on a chair and looking out a window.
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#UofT partners with Ontario Vehicle Innovation Network to bring innovative tech to market 🚙 uoft.me/crd
ALT From left: Mona Eghanian, assistant vice-president, Ontario Centre of Innovation; Chris Yip, dean, U of T Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering; Raed Kadri, head of OVIN; Claudia Krywiak, president and CEO, Ontario Centre of Innovation; Jim Banting, assistant vice-president of innovation, partnerships and Entrepreneurship at U of T (photo by Tyler Irving)
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Jun 1
UofT campus is actually beautiful.
Love going for walks here in the summer
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Today at #ASCO26, more results about the newest clinical trial of daraxonrasib: In the Phase III RASolute-302 trial, a once-daily RAS(ON) inhibitor nearly doubled median overall survival (13.2 vs 6.7 months) and reduced the risk of death by ~60% versus chemotherapy in previously treated metastatic pancreatic cancer.
KRAS was once considered “undruggable.” This is what persistence in science looks like.
A landmark moment for targeted therapy and for patients who desperately need better options. #CancerResearch #PancreaticCancer
Pancreatic cancer has one of the most suppressive tumor microenvironments in oncology.
But two pancreatic cancer results dropped today. Both matter.
1. BioNTech mRNA neoantigen vaccine: nearly all responders still alive at 6 years. 98% of induced T cells were de novo — the immune system learned to see a cancer it had always been blind to.
2. Daraxonrasib: 47% ORR, 92% disease control as first-line monotherapy. KRAS G12D, undruggable for 40 years, finally has a drug.
Different mechanisms. Same disease. Both working.
<13% of patients survive 5 years. That number is about to change.
great day for science! 🔥
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May 31
I don't know what's happening inside the lake, but there's an important meeting. 🥹😅
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May 30
Only at Harvard do you get @geoffreyhinton and @ConanOBrien in the same convocation frame.
One helped teach machines how to think.
The other reminds humans not to take themselves too seriously.
In 2026 and beyond, we’re going to need both.
May 29
Geoffrey Hinton, University Professor Emeritus and winner of a Nobel Prize in Physics, granted an honorary degree by Harvard University #UofT
uoft.me/cq-
ALT Geoffrey Hinton (centre) with fellow honorary degree recipients Peggy Noonan (left) and Conan O'Brien (right) (photo by Jennifer Cressman)
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May 29
What an amazing week, @TOtechweek! Congratulations.
Learned a lot. Networked even more.
Buoyed by the optimism and the use of AI to build quickly! Amazing time to be an entrepreneur.
Looking forward to next year.
I’ll be watching for @tobi driving a Luce around the city.
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May 29
Also heard quite a few people reference PGs essays and startup outlook.
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