Cardiovascular health entrepreneurship training

TRANSFORM HF and the Translational Biology & Engineering Program’s ECHO Discovery program is back for a third year! This free, virtual foundational education program has been designed to explore ideation, research translation, and commercialization within the cardiovascular health space.

What:

ECHO Discovery aims to:

  • Provide fundamental ideation, entrepreneurship, and research translation skills through theoretical and experiential training
  • Connect and support a diverse and multi-sector network of early-career entrepreneurs and researchers, mentors, and key opinion leaders
  • Guide exploration of career advancement within the cardiovascular space
  • Ignite start-up formation

Who:

ECHO Discovery is for those who are interested in exploring entrepreneurship within the cardiovascular health sector but have a limited understanding of how to proceed, and are:

  • Fourth-year undergraduate students and graduate students enrolled in a Canadian university
  • Postdoctoral and clinical fellows affiliated with any Canadian institution

No ideas, start-ups, or previous experience are required to participate!

Where & When:

Program timing is as follows:

  • Call for applications: October 17
  • Application deadline: November 24
  • Notification of program acceptance: December
  • Program orientation: January 2025
  • Program elements: January to June 2025

For more information and to apply to the program, visit the ECHO Discovery webpage.

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