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Aspect Biosystems Wins Metabridge’s Most Promising Startup of 2017 Award
Monday, June 26, 2017Company Profile | Follow Company
Vancouver, BC, June 26, 2017--(T-Net)--Aspect Biosystems announced today that it has been voted Metabridge's Most Promising Startup of 2017.
Fifteen promising Canadian startups are selected to participate in the annual Metabridge program each year (see the 2017 list of finalists here)
This program aims to “accelerate the best & brightest high growth technology Start-ups in Canada.”
About Aspect Biosystems
Aspect Biosystems is a Canadian biotechnology company founded in November, 2013. The company spun out from two internationally recognized research groups in engineering and medicine at the University of British Columbia. Aspect Biosystems is working towards a future where doctors determine which drugs work for their patients before prescribing them, where animals are no longer needed for the development of new therapeutics, and where lifesaving transplant organs are created, not harvested. To realize these goals, Aspect has developed a disruptive 3D bioprinting platform technology capable of creating living human tissues on demand.
Our initial products aim to improve the predictive accuracy of the pre-clinical drug discovery process by providing the industry and researchers with the technology to create highly customized physiologically-relevant 3D human tissue models that they can employ in the development of new drugs. Aspect's technology has the potential to drive a fundamental shift in the pharmaceutical industry, enabling the development of completely new therapeutics, and enabling pharma to test drugs they may have shelved in the past due to a lack of appropriate models. Furthermore, Aspect's technology has the potential to significantly reduce the use of laboratory animals, supporting an industry wide mandate to reduce, refine and replace animal testing. Aspect has a long-term vision to expand beyond applications in drug development, by enabling Human Tissues on Demand™ for broad applications in the life sciences including personalized and regenerative medicine.
About Metabridge
Metabridge is about building relationships to help grow your business.
Metabridge is a non-profit organization helping accelerate the best & brightest high growth technology Start-ups in Canada, providing them access to global mentorship and capital.
In joining the program each year, the Top 15 cohort of companies get invited to join us at Metabridge Live, our flagship invitation only tech retreat over 48 hours. Each company is showcased in an intimate setting with a curated group of international technology executives and serial entrepreneurs and immersed in collaborative networking programs. Apllications are now closed for our 2017 program. Applications for 2018 will open in the summer of 2017.
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