@JimDBanting

Supporting partnerships, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Past: biotech bus dev (🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦) & co-founder. Views are my own.

 Toronto, Ontario
Joined October 2011
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Discovery to market is Canada's gap — great science, too little early capital. @UHN joining the Genesys University Seed Fund as a hospital partner helps close it, turning lab discoveries into companies, jobs and patient impact at home.
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Steve Orsini
@SteveOrsiniOct 21
Congratulations to @UofT, ranked 4th in the world for international research influence. World-class research is the foundation of innovation and commercialization, helping transform breakthrough ideas into new technologies, start-ups, jobs, and economic growth for Ontario and Canada. @nolanmquinn @univcan @U15ca @OntUniv @MitacsCanada @NSERC_CRSNG @CIHR_IRSC @InnovationCA #Research #Innovation #HigherEd
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#UofT transforms PhD education with launch of Presidents’ Impact Scholarship Program ➡️ uoft.me/cJ9
U of T students walking by University College on King’s College Circle

ALT U of T students walking by University College on King’s College Circle

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Prime Minister Carney launches new National Council on Artificial Intelligence: pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releas…

Prime Minister Carney launches new National Council on Artificial Intelligence

AI for All is the government’s new national strategy to ensure that AI is adopted responsibly, in a way that truly serves all Canadians – building trust, expanding opportunities, and reinforcing our...

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GREG ISENBERG
@gregisenbergSep 29
Muse vs Dots vs Grokbot Zuck vs Altman vs Musk. The battle of personal agents for the masses. Who do you think wins?
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daniel debow
@ddebowSep 24
omg. just came back from a tour of @OTILumionics … Canada has no idea how big this company is gonna be. just wow. build foundational deep tech takes decades and huge capital. step it up Canada.
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James Zou@james_y_zouSep 17
Super excited that #VirtualBiotech is published in @ScienceMagazine today! Tens of thousands of AI scientist agents work together across drug discovery + development, from target discovery to clinical trial design. Our blueprint for agentic R&D 🧵
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Bo Wang
@BoWang87Sep 17
This is super cool result for AI & protein design! Claude wrote CUDA kernels that beat NVIDIA's own cuEquivariance on triangle attention by 2.7–2.9x, and triangle multiplication by 1.7–3.2x. Two engineers supervised it. Neither had prior kernel engineering experience. 30+ models such as AlphaFold3, Boltz-2, OpenFold3, protein LMs, genomics, done in 4 weeks. Triangle ops are the cubic bottleneck in Pairformer-based structure prediction. Fix them and the whole stack gets cheaper: 4x average speedup, 100x fewer GPU hours for comparable protein design results. FlashPairformer is now open-sourced: anthropic.com/research/claud…

How Claude is uplifting biomolecular modeling

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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Anthropic
@AnthropicAISep 17
Biologists use specialized open-source models for tasks like modeling the structure of molecular systems, designing drug-like molecules, and predicting the effects of genetic mutations. But these models are often expensive to run, potentially limiting their impact. In our latest Science Blog, we share how Claude was able to optimize inference for more than 30 open-source models, making them 4x faster on average, partly by writing custom software for GPUs. We’re open sourcing all of the optimization code. Read more: anthropic.com/research/claud…
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Rolling Stone
@RollingStoneAug 22
How to Watch The Tragically Hip Farewell Show 10th Anniversary Special Online rollingstone.com/product-rec…

How to Watch The Tragically Hip Farewell Show 10th Anniversary Special Tonight: Stream Here

The Canadian band took the stage for the final time in their hometown of Kingston, Ontario on August 20, 2016 after lead singer Gord Downie announced his terminal brain cancer diagnosis.

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blogTO
@blogTOAug 20
University of Toronto crowned among world's top 5 schools in new global ranking blogto.com/city/2026/08/univ…

University of Toronto crowned among world's top 5 schools in new global ranking

Canada is home to plenty of world-class universities, and a new global ranking has just proved that once again. The National Taiwan University (NTU) …

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CP24
@CP24Aug 19
Toronto ranks third in tech industry talent across North America cp24.com/local/toronto/2026/…

Toronto ranks third in tech industry talent across North America

Toronto has been ranked as the third-best city in North America for tech workers.

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National Geographic Award Winning Photograph.
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The moon photographed over 28 days at the same place and at the same time.......
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Oh Canaduh
@CanaduhOhAug 15
If Jaws was filmed in Canada:
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THIS Is What a Solar Eclipse Looks Like From Space 🌑

X. It’s what’s happening

From breaking news and entertainment to sports and politics, get the full story with all the live commentary.

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Canada added 75K jobs in July, well above the 15K forecasted. Driven mostly by gains in Ontario. Very positive trend in the right direction.
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Max Lemmens
@maxlmnsAug 6
not looking for a good b2b growth marketer looking for the best one in Canada 🇨🇦 and I want them to join my team @ElevenLabs --- tag them + apply elevenlabs.io/careers/792d35…
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On this day in 1921, Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolated an extract from the islets cells of a dog and injected them into a diabetic one, leading to a breakthrough with insulin 📸LAC Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇 canadaehx.com/2020/03/29/sir…
Charles Best and Frederick Banting sit side by side in an office, both wearing suits and ties. Best is on the left with his hands folded in his lap, while Banting sits on the right wearing round glasses, with bookshelves and framed items behind them.

ALT Charles Best and Frederick Banting sit side by side in an office, both wearing suits and ties. Best is on the left with his hands folded in his lap, while Banting sits on the right wearing round glasses, with bookshelves and framed items behind them.

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Steph from OpenVC
@StephNassJul 27
To raise capital, you need Traction or Track record. The end.
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Amber Mac
@ambermacJul 25
🙌 Super excited to share an interview about AI bias we just recorded with the brilliant Kathryn Hume @VectorInst. Coming up next week on The AmberMac Show podcast. cc @jeffmacarthur
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