British Columbia Innovation Council

Non-Rejectable Engineered Skin Substitute, Department of Surgery, UBC

Technology Innovator: Dr. Farshad Forouzandeh, UBC
Business Plan Collaborators: Hoby Chou and Octavia Yung, SFU

Non-Rejectable Engineered Skin Substitute is a naturally-engineered skin substitute for use in treating burns, ulcers, and other non-healing wounds. Cultured from human skin cells sourced from a live donor, the substitute is available off the shelf. It significantly reduces the waiting period for a permanent skin graft, and it eliminates the need for immunosuppressive drugs.

Panovex

Technology Innovators: Mahsa Pourazad, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UBC;
Hagit Schechter, Dept. of Computer Science, UBC

Panovex's first product, Ziaxis, is an embedded system on chipsets for stereoscopic mobile phones. It reduces the gaps between the capabilities of mobile games and those of console and PC gaming. Ziaxis introduces realistic gaming environments using animations that follow the laws of physics, such as object collisions, lava eruption, fire and smoke. The gaming data is interactively produced and displayed on stereoscopic display, combining realism and fantasy to create new and exciting experiences.

High Performance XML Processing Technology

Technology Innovator: Ken Herdy, Dept. of Computing Science, SFU
Business Plan Collaborator: Patrick Lam, SFU

As the volume of XML network traffic continues to grow, the demand for the high performance XML processing solutions is increasing. This innovation exchanges data on the Internet and corporate information networks in a platform neutral manner. It obtains significant performance gains through the Single Instruction Multiple Data capabilities of multicore commodity processors.

About the Student Business Plan Awards
The BCIC Student Business Plan Awards recognize the top business plans produced by BCIC graduate scholarship recipients for the commercialization of technology innovations. The recipients include BCIC Innovation Scholars who are leading science and technology graduate students who have developed innovations that have the potential for commercialization.