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Samir is a PhD candidate in Biochemistry. He co-founded Forest City SynBio with the vision of turning Southwestern Ontario into a hub for synthetic biology startups. FCSB operates a co-working wet lab in Guelph & is raising a pre-seed round to lay the foundations for Canada’s first private accelerator dedicated to synthetic biology.

An Assisant Professor in Biochemistry, Karas is focused on developing innovative genetic tools to enable the engineering of microbes to produce medicines, DNA storage technologies, food and next generation fuels.