Muhammad Rehan

Perspectives and Challenges in Quantum Computing – Falling Walls Circle Plenary Table 2023 Quantum computing has emerged as a revolutionary technology that promises to transform various fields, from drug discovery to optimization problems and cryptography to artificial intelligence. However, many of these applications are still in the distant future. This…

He is an antibiotics researcher who not only promises new antibiotics, but also to make existing antibiotics more efficient. The potential should be peer reviewed. Not particularly novel in its methods, all the big ones use ‘AI’ to find new molecules. Standard problems of antimicrobiotical research apply to his team…

Project P-FORVIS aims to design, develop, and produce novel antimicrobial peptides based on the natural and potent Killer Peptide (KP), with no negative effects on the patients and their microbiota.

Environmental sustainability is essential for improving health system functions, delivering better outcomes for patients, and contributing to larger social and economic benefits. Reducing both the carbon footprint and waste generation in the healthcare sector are examples of methods to achieve environmental sustainability – this escalating issue requires attention and action.…

Claudia Siesquén Deza is creating awareness about a low cost technology to preserve food: evaporative cooling. Her product, CoolK Refri, is a fridge made of clay that works without electricity.

“Critically Extant” is a project that explores just how little we know about the natural world by testing the limits of the data openly available to us. To achieve this, AI algorithms were trained on millions of open source images of nature and some ten thousand species. The resulting models…

The Pivot Collective is a non-profit company committed to young people, collaborative knowledge production, knowledge translation and the decolonization of research and engagement.   Tags: Citizen Science, New Work, Science Communication, Social Cohesion, Inclusive research, inclusive engagement, decolonisation.

Period poverty and period stigma impact the life of entire communities. The health of women and the environment are compromised as current solutions foment bacteria growth and are not compostable. Rebecca Cenzato proposes selling affordable and compostable sanitary pads made out of banana fibre and produced in rural mini-factories, while…

How Open Systems and New Incentives Will Redefine Healthcare We already knew that “sharing is caring”, but what about “sharing is curing”? Digital disruption might soon hit the established system of patents and publishing in biomedical industry and academia respectively – a system ruled by reward structures centered on property,…

PRESENTED BY Matthew Anderson-Baron NOMINATED BY University of Alberta Tags: Cellular Agriculture, Growth Media, Ag Tech