Residency alumnus awarded $90,000 by Mitacs

The Marnix E. Heersink School of Biomedical Innovation and Entrepreneurship and The Clinic at McMaster University announced that Mason Kadem, a Residency @ The Clinic alumnus, was awarded $90,000 through the Mitacs Accelerate Entrepreneur program.

Mitacs Accelerate Entrepreneur funds student and postdoctoral entrepreneurs to achieve commercialization goals, and further develop the research or technology at the core of their start-up business. The Clinic, McMaster’s 3000-square-foot health innovation hub is one of only two Mitacs-approved business incubators at McMaster through its Residency @ The Clinic program.

Kadem was awarded the funds to conduct the world’s largest remote, non-contact exercise study by leveraging his health innovation Ro (Research Online), the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) platform to enable large-scale physiological testing online. Kadem is an AI entrepreneur, engineer, and researcher, and a college professor in computer science and digital health. He is the author of the textbook Pearls and Perils of Machine Learning, used in multiple academic courses. He holds dual Master of Science degrees in biomedical engineering and neuroscience.

The grant was co-written with the expertise of Ro Co-Founder Dr. Baraa Al-Khazraji. Al-Khazraji is an assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster University, specializing in integrative cardiovascular and cerebrovascular physiology, and the director of the Translational Vascular AI Lab at McMaster University.