“We built a company with a whole bunch of technologies around it in 2020 and today we have seen about 4,000 patients.
#Aurora with screens unveiled skin
We decided we can’t just give people technology to tell them they have skin cancer we have to build something to help them with their specific cancer and that’s what we did. The challenge was, so what if we could screen for cancer? In Canada, the posted wait times across the country was 25 weeks…to get any kind of help. “ was actually more accurate than doctors, and we did this together with Dr. “Your typical doctor screens for cancer at 67 per cent accuracy and your typical specialist screens for cancer at 87 per cent accuracy,” says Loo. His partner on Skinopathy, a plastic surgeon, was seeing more and more late-stage cases of skin cancer and together they set out to see if technology could be created to screen for cancer early. Loo describes himself as a “recent resident” of Aurora. We were able to promote him and the type of technology we have growing in Aurora do outreach and say, ‘Here’s how we can support tech-preneurs.’” Within 18 months or so, they have really grown. “Skinopathy is a young company that started in the midst of the pandemic. Later on in 2021, we also had industry roundtables and as part of that we had some speakers and one of those was Keith Loo how the town could support tech innovation and entrepreneurship. “Health care technology was part of that discovery of where Aurora could play a significant role and start attracting and supporting entrepreneurs in that space. “This event wrapped around health care and technology and came out of our target sector analysis…in early 2021,” she said. Held at the historic Aurora Armoury April 19, it was a chance for members of the community to bring together what economic development manager Lisa Hausz describes as the local “entrepreneurial ecosystem together in one spot in collaboration” to support one another. The local success story of Loo and Hong was the focus of the inaugural Emerging Aurora event, an initiative of the Aurora’s Economic Development Board. Its intention was to help people with skin cancers get diagnosed and treated early in a medical environment where wait times for appointments can make all the difference.Īs the technology developed, its success with patients was clear, and now the duo are in talks to expand the program to local hospitals. Colin Hong, launched Skinopathy in August 2020 with plans to develop artificial technology to help people screen for skin cancers not only from the comfort of their own home, but from the convenience of their phone as well. If necessity is the mother of invention, the global pandemic may have been a close relative to innovation for Aurora resident Keith Loo.
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