Training program in organ-on-a-chip engineering and entrepreneurship (TOeP)

芯片器官工程和创业培训项目（TOeP）

• 批准号: 482073-2016
• 负责人: Radisic, Milica
• 金额: $ 21.86万
• 依托单位: University of Toronto
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Collaborative Research and Training Experience
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=662853
• 关键词: Training; program; organ; chip; engineering

The long term objective of this training program is to provide a skilled entrepreneurial workforce for Canada, one that will fuel creation of a high-tech economy to replace the shrinking classical manufacturing sector. The statistics are clear: our Universities and research institutions are leading the world in discovery, but we are failing in transferring these technologies into commercial products. We will equip the trainees with skills to build their own companies from their research, with a specific scientific focus on building organ-on-a-chip devices for compound screening and discovery. Our objectives are: 1) Provide world-leading training of the highest scientific standard in microfabrication, microfluidics, polymer chemistry, organ-on-a-chip engineering and translation. 2) Provide training in hard (patent law, business, finance) and soft (networking, etiquette, public speaking, critical thinking & analysis, team work) skills essential to entrepreneurial success. 3) Building on our existing contacts, we will develop a network of partners and receptors, e.g. business advisors, patent lawyers, venture capital firms and incubators, to assist trainees. Sustainability of the program will be achieved through H2i a Campus Linked Accelerator (CLA), that agreed to incorporate our best practices into their program at the completion of the CREATE funding. Student mobility will be encouraged through our collaborator network, spanning investigators from Canada's east to west coast; and a consortium with 3 other already established CREATE programs in the realm of tissue engineering. We will open our curriculum and fundraising opportunities to those collaborating investigators and programs, while our students will have the opportunity to learn from successful entrepreneurs at the collaborating institutions through the shadowing program that will encourage a two way exchange. We will run an Annual Symposium at the University of Toronto and an entrepreneurship workshop at the Till and McCulloch Annual Meeting for students across Canada and internationally. We secured matching scholarship funds, funds for program administration and in-kind support for curriculum development through Banting & Best Center.****

该培训计划的长期目标是为加拿大提供熟练的创业劳动力，这将推动高科技经济的发展，以取代萎缩的传统制造业。统计数据很清楚：我们的大学和研究机构在发现方面处于世界领先地位，但我们未能将这些技术转化为商业产品。我们将为学员提供从研究中建立自己公司的技能，具体的科学重点是构建用于化合物筛选和发现的器官芯片设备。 我们的目标是：1）提供世界领先的培训，在微加工，微流体，聚合物化学，器官芯片工程和翻译的最高科学标准。2)提供创业成功所必需的硬技能（专利法，商业，金融）和软技能（网络，礼仪，公共演讲，批判性思维和分析，团队合作）培训。 3)在我们现有联系的基础上，我们将建立一个合作伙伴和受体网络，例如商业顾问，专利律师，风险投资公司和孵化器，以帮助学员。该计划的可持续性将通过H2 i校园链接加速器（CLA）实现，该加速器同意在CREATE资金完成后将我们的最佳实践纳入其计划。 学生的流动性将通过我们的合作者网络，从加拿大的东海岸到西海岸的调查人员鼓励;和一个财团与其他3个已经建立的CREATE计划在组织工程领域。我们将开放我们的课程和筹款机会，那些合作的调查人员和程序，而我们的学生将有机会通过影子计划，鼓励双向交流，从成功的企业家在合作机构学习。我们将在多伦多大学举办年度研讨会，并在Till和McCulloch年会上为加拿大和国际学生举办创业研讨会。我们通过Banting & Best Center获得了匹配的奖学金资金，项目管理资金和课程开发的实物支持。