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Derek Newton

Assistant Vice-President, Innovation, Partnerships and Entrepreneurship at University of Toronto
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Derek Newton

Assistant Vice-President, Innovation, Partnerships and Entrepreneurship at University of Toronto

Biography

The Innovations & Partnerships Office at the University of Toronto (U of T) helps build successful partnerships between industry and the U of T research community and also manages the university’s portfolio of intellectual property. Derek has held previous senior roles at Western University, where he served as Director of the Office of Research Development and Services and the Office of Research Ethics. He has also worked at a large biotechnology funding organization and a boutique consultancy specializing in biotechnology. Derek completed his PhD in Molecular Biology at the University of Toronto as well as a M.Sc. and BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Waterloo.

Derek was a speaker at IEEE N3XT® 2016 Toronto.