WORLDiscoveries (Western’s Tech Transfer office) in conjunction with Western Entrepreneurship will be hosting the Innovation Ambassadors speaker series for all faculty staff, and students which features faculty members and innovators from across campus discussing cutting-edge research innovations here at Western and special industry guests showcasing their companies and/or research outputs.
Our next Zoom event will be held on Thursday, December 1, 2022 from 12 noon - 1:00 p.m.
Talk Title: Gene editing and developing the SRG rat for oncology research
Description:
Chris Brenzel, Senior Director, Business Development/Gene Editing Solutions at Hera BioLabs, and Dr. Matthew Hebb, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at Western and Neurosurgeon-Researcher at Lawson Health Research Institute. They will be presenting on a collaborative industry-academic development of a patient-derived xenograft SRG immunodeficient rat model of human glioblastoma brain cancer for pre-clinical evaluation of therapeutics including the novel treatment paradigm Intratumoral Modulation Therapy (IMT).