Spotlighting UBC researchers throughout their innovation journeys.
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September 11, 202625 new UBC ventures join Venture Founder’s fall 2026 cohort
This September, 25 new teams are joining our Venture Founder program, building companies across health, biotechnology, advanced engineering, agriculture, fintech, sustainability, accessibility, and AI.
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September 10, 2026Venture Founder alumni spotlight: Formme, taking designers from sketch to production
In this Venture Founder Alumni Spotlight, hear from the Formme team on how they're taking designers from sketch to production, their biggest pivot as they were building Formme, and the importance of consistency in the context of entrepreneurship.
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August 31, 2026Episode 3: The Road to Spinal Cord Regeneration
On this episode of Beaker Banter, we sit down with Dr. Michelle Kunimoto, an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia and real-life planet hunter.
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August 31, 2026Change the chemistry, and everything changes: UBC researchers pioneering a new era of diagnostics
UBC researchers are developing a new class of Canadian-made technology that shrinks an entire diagnostic laboratory onto a biosensor chip, a device small enough to operate in a clinic, a field backpack, or keep in a drawer at home.
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August 28, 2026Venture Founder alumni spotlight: Peter Idoko and Circuit, centralizing high-value opportunities for emerging creatives
In this Venture Founder Alumni Spotlight, read about Circuit, founded by musician and UBC Okanagan student Peter Idoko, and how Circuit is giving emerging artists the tools they need in order to navigate and grow in a trillion-dollar industry.
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August 26, 2026Staff Spotlight: Austin Lee, Technology Transfer Manager
In this Staff Spotlight Q&A, read all about Austin Lee, how his background has helped him work with researchers, what disclosing technology really means, and the rewarding work behind the license between Yinka Dene Economic Development Limited Partnership (YLP) and UBC.
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August 20, 2026Mentor Spotlight: Thibaud Bastian
In this Mentor Spotlight, read all about Thibaud Bastian, who has mentored with Innovation UBC since August 2024. Thibaud brings a pharmacist's perspective, shaped by both the clinical and business sides of healthcare, to the founders he works with.
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August 17, 2026Dave Eto and Sustainable Bioproduct Innovations: Substituting fat with chia seeds
Innovation UBC’s HATCH Venture Builder program provides established, UBC research-based venture teams with the resources and expertise to scale their business. Ventures undergo leadership training, up to 18 months of educational programming building off skills learned in our Venture Founder program…
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August 17, 2026Built at UBC: the world’s largest emergency medicine research hub to accelerate health crisis response
A pandemic-born network of Canadian emergency physicians, hosted at the University of British Columbia, has become the world’s largest emergency medicine research infrastructure and is now ready to combat health emergencies in a fraction of the time.
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