The Proteus Innovation Competition is a four-month competition that challenges students to craft compelling commercialization strategies for one out of five promising technologies with the chance to win a slice of more than $25,000 in cash prizes and the opportunity to license the technology and form their own startup.
Emmanuel Ho, a professor from the University of Waterloo’s School of Pharmacy, has developed a smart bacteria-responsive platform that releases antimicrobial agents in the presence of specific bacteria.
“Reducing food waste not only cuts greenhouse gas emissions, slows the destruction of nature through land conversion and mitigates pollution, but also enhances food availability, thereby contributing to hunger reduction and cost savings,” Ho says. “The current demand for sustainability underscores the urgency of addressing this issue. The primary challenge lies in the short shelf life of food products which is what we are wanting to address.”
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