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Mohammad Kondri Presents Consulate General of Canada in Los Angeles at LSI USA '24

Recognized for high-quality life sciences and health care solutions, Canada is home to a large pool of highly skilled life sciences professionals with a broad range of expertise.

Mohammad Kondri  0:04  
Welcome to the session track number three. And so, as Michael introduced already, I'm the life science officer at the Canadian consulate, and I advanced basically Canada's Life Science industries relationship at the Southwest USA. So that's what you are seeing so many Canadians in here, and that's my fault, and if it is something that so I have more than 70 Canadians participating at this great conference. And really, life science industry in Canada is the one of the one of the most innovative industry, and it contributes significantly to Canadian innovation economy, and Canada's life science industry is pretty well distributed throughout Canada and and you can see that most of the life science activities in the south east and southern borders of the Canada basically there's only a single flight from anywhere you are in the United States, to reach Canada and start your collaboration and partnership right there. Obviously, as you see that we do have the several mega clusters located in the Montreal area, in Quebec, and our even the bigger the cluster in the Toronto, Ontario, Toronto area, and one of the faster growing Life Science cluster in the Vancouver BC area. So each of these cluster has their own specific strengths. And if you are interested, we could be able, after we finish the session, we could be able to talk in the specific advantages of each cluster, if you are interested in working with the Canadian industry. So really, Canada believes strongly in international collaboration, and they believe that really science succeeds and patients benefit with the collaborations. That's what their institution is, set up in a way that they can achieve international collaborations. They do have a collaboration with lots of countries in the basics throughout the world. So it does have a generous research and development tax credit, which helps the emerging companies basically to move forward commercialization, and is the home to largest biotech, biotech companies in the world, basically second large sessions. Is it so? And has a strong talent pool, which is the requirement for moving the innovation to the commercialization. So that is the really what is that? If you are interested in learning more about Canada, please come and meet us at our table booth. Basically we have that's a that's for the federal government, or just grab me anywhere you want to. We could be able to discuss further and to see how we can be help you. And if you are interested doing the business in Canada, that's it again. Thank you very much for participating in the session. We are going to have have a pleasure of introducing five great innovators to you today. And so that's where we start, and we go from there. And I guess our first presenter, i.

 

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