Garth Smith

Currently, Dr. Smith is the VP, Business Development and Partnerships for the Ontario Brain Institute (OBI).  His mandate is to lead the OBI’s commercialization and partnership efforts to drive the Canadian neurotech cluster and its relationships with external stakeholders.  Previously, Dr. Smith also was a product development and BD consultant for neurotechs and Director, Drug Development for a CNS start-up in the diabetic neuropathy space.  He was responsible for the lead candidate’s development from concept to first-in-human clinical trial.  His work experience also includes working in the tech transfer office of the UHN, Canada’s largest research organization.  His academic career consisted of a B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Neurosciences at the U of T, a M. Sc. in Neurophysiology, at the UBC and a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge where he was designated as a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholar.  Upon returning to Toronto, he was a post-doc at the Toronto Western Research Institute.