#entrepreneur — Industry Profiles

Alex Campbell

Hyasynth Bio is a Montreal based company that manufactures cannabinoid ingredients using yeast fermentation and synthetic biology.

QuebecBenjamin ScottMarch 15, 2022#yeast, #proteinengineering, #metabolicengineering, #greentech, #entrepreneur, #industry

Christopher Bush/Catalyst Agri-Innovations Society

In our work we disassemble high volume, low value agricultural residual streams that many call "waste". From them we make Renewable Natural Gas, and use the revenue from that to further isolate the compounds that make up manure.

British ColumbiaBenjamin ScottAugust 1, 2021#greentech, #entrepreneur

Kevin Chen/Hyasynth

We make strains of yeast that produce cannabinoids. The cannabinoids are a collection of over 100 different compounds, of which the two most popular are THC and CBD.

QuebecBenjamin ScottMay 22, 2019#yeast, #proteinengineering, #genecircuits, #geneediting, #metabolicengineering, #therapeutics, #greentech, #entrepreneur, #industry, #policy

Julie Legault/Amino Labs

At Amino Labs, our mission is to make biotechnology/synthetic biology learning and innovation accessible to everyone through beginner-friendly experiment kits and equipment for the home and school.

AlbertaBenjamin ScottFebruary 20, 2019#yeast, #bacteria, #modeling, #proteinengineering, #genecircuits, #geneediting, #biosensor, #entrepreneur, #industry

David Lloyd/FREDsense

At FREDsense, we build portable sensors using the power of biology. Our live bacterial biosensor platform can be customized for virtually any type of chemistry and provide a fast, accurate and easy to use measurement system.

AlbertaBenjamin ScottFebruary 16, 2019#bacteria, #proteinengineering, #genecircuits, #geneediting, #biosensor, #entrepreneur

Dr. Felix Moser/Synlife

I received my PhD in Chris Voigt's lab at MIT and went on to become the first employee of Synlife, a startup based in Cambridge, MA. Synlife is building synthetic minimal cells as an innovative platform for cell therapy.

British ColumbiaBenjamin ScottFebruary 15, 2019#genecircuits, #metabolicengineering, #biosensor, #therapeutics, #greentech, #entrepreneur, #industry

Justin Pahara/Amino Labs

New DNA assembly technologies and more accessible and affordable lab equipment for educators and at-home innovators .

AlbertaBenjamin ScottFebruary 4, 2019#bacteria, #proteinengineering, #genecircuits, #geneediting, #metabolicengineering, #biosensor, #entrepreneur, #industry

Ranomics

Ranomics enables transformative discoveries using genomics. Ranomics has a high throughput functional genomics pipeline that empowers drug discovery and synthetic biology.

OntarioBenjamin ScottFebruary 2, 2019#mammalian, #plant, #yeast, #proteinengineering, #geneediting, #therapeutics, #greentech, #entrepreneur, #industry