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Welcome to RADIANT’s Feature Friday! Each Friday we will be featuring past RADIANT Summer Institute students and speakers on their experience with the RADIANT Summer Institute of Neurotechnology Innovation, Commercialization and Entrepreneurship (NICE).

“The Summer Institute is a crash course in an increasingly important skill set. Entrepreneurialism is much broader than making money, it’s about understanding how the world works, how you might optimize a path for yourself that makes a real impact. It gives students the language and framework they need to start thinking about how their identity/interests could factor into the trajectory of their careers.” Christopher Lee Friesen, 2013 NICE Summer Institute student.

Christopher is a PhD Candidate in Neuroscience at Dalhousie University, working out of the Lab for Brain Recovery and Function. He is also a writer for Mind & Movement, a website with fellow RADIANT student, Tony Ingram, that translates motor neuroscience research to entertaining and educational content. Christopher and Tony also founded a company called Axem, and in December, they won 1st place at Launch Dal's Fall Collide Pitch Competition.

Check out our website for more information on the NICE Summer Institute!

Congratulations to two of our RADIANT students, Chris Friesen and Tony Ingram, for their win with AXEM at Dalhousie University and Launch Dal's Collide Pitch Competition!

Axem Wins $3,000 at Dal’s Collide Axem, a wearable technology that allows athletes to track their brain activity to enhance performance, has captured the $3,000 first prize at the latest Demo Day of the Collide Program at Dalhousie University. Founded by Tony Ingram and Chris Friesen, Axem has already received initial commitments...