L2M Health Innovation Seminar | How Can Research Commercialization Benefit My Lab?
Join the Lab2Market National Health Hub for the first session in their new Innovation Seminar series!
When’s the right time to start thinking about commercialization? Can entrepreneurship training actually improve academic research? What if my department isn’t fully on board? How do I build entrepreneurial capacity in my lab—without burning out?
In this session, we will examine how research commercialization can bring benefit to your lab. Welcoming leading academic and experienced entrepreneur Dr. Paul Santerre, we’ll explore how entrepreneurial mindsets can transform labs, careers and student success.
We’ll dive into how entrepreneurship can improve academic work, balancing teaching, research and innovation, how to foster entrepreneurial capacity in your lab and how to collaborate with students to translate your research into impact.
The seminar will include both a moderated discussion and an interactive Q&A. This session is open to all – bring your questions and join in the conversation!
Professor J. Paul Santerre has published >230 peer reviewed publications and is a listed inventor on >70 patents in the area of medical polymers. He has trained over 80 graduate students and generated over $61M in grant funding. He is co-founder and current director of the Health Innovation Hub at the University of Toronto (a student focused entrepreneur training co-curricular program that has trained > 750 client health science companies which have generated > $520M Cdn). He is also the current chair of the Health Entrepreneuship Pillar for the African Higher Education Health Collaborative supported by the Mastercard Foundation. He is a co-founder of Interface Biologics, along with having spun-out five other start-up companies from his lab, and has won multiple national awards for his achievements in enabling entrepreneurship, included Canada’s Governor General award for Innovation, and the Professional Engineers of Ontario Entrepreneurship Award in 2017, among others. He has received multiple awards for his community activity including the 2018 President’s Impact Award from the University of Toronto, and in 2018 and 2020 he was recognized respectively by the US Society for Biomaterials and the Canadian Biomaterials Society for lifetime contributions to the scientific literature.
Jarrod Ladouceur is a seasoned innovation and commercialization leader with over 15 years of experience supporting researchers and entrepreneurs across Canada. He currently leads the National Health Hub for Lab2Market (L2M), a pan-Canadian initiative dedicated to training life science researchers in research commercialization.