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Brendan Frey at Elevate 2019
Professor Brendan Frey, the CEO of Deep Genomics, revealed during the Elevate technology festival that the startup was nominating the "first-ever" AI-discovered drug candidate (photo courtesy of the Elevate Tech Festival)

The Elevate 2019 technology festival underway in Toronto held a day-long program dedicated to AI on Wednesday, with 香港六合彩资料 startups stirring up excitement with announcements about key project milestones.

The third day of Canada鈥檚 largest technology festival saw Brendan Frey, CEO of Deep Genomics, reveal that the company鈥檚 cutting-edge AI drug discovery platform has identified a genetic mutation linked to Wilson disease, a rare and potentially life-threatening genetic disorder, and honed in on a molecule that holds treatment potential, .

鈥淲e are delighted to nominate the first ever AI-discovered therapeutic candidate and are eager to move it rapidly into the clinic for the potential benefit of patients,鈥 said Frey, a professor in 香港六合彩资料鈥檚 Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering with cross appointments in the department of computer science in the Faculty of Arts & Science and the Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, in a press release.

that AI-powered customer analytics platform ODAIA, whose co-founders include Assistant Professor Periklis Andritsos of the Faculty of Information and Adjunct Professor Helen Kontozopoulos (also a co-founder of the Department of Computer Science Innovation Lab, or DCSIL) used the event to announce it has raised $1.6 million in seed funding.

Enthusiasm surrounding 香港六合彩资料's startup ecosystem also extends to students, Keri Damen, managing director of 香港六合彩资料 Entrepreneurship, . 

鈥淭here鈥檚 a huge appetite coming from the students themselves that they want to work for new companies, startups and scale-ups, especially in the social innovation and social entrepreneurship space,鈥 Damen said.

The 香港六合彩资料 Entrepreneuship booth at the Elevate tech festival (photo courtesy of the Elevate Tech Festival)

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