Dr. Ryan Lewinson uses Entrepreneurship to Improve Biomechanics
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Feb 21, 2017
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Becoming a national research leader and creating and running a successful company is out of reach for many in a lifetime, but 2016 Leaders of Tomorrow ASTech Award Winner Dr. Ryan Lewinson has done it all by the age of 27, while still a full-time medical student.
Lewinson says his passions drive his success. “I love looking into different product development ideas; I love learning how our bones, joints, muscles and other tissues interact; and I love solving new problems,” he says. “So I basically do what I love, and love what I do.”
It’s this yearning to find answers that fed Lewinson’s success in biomechanics, which is “taking engineering and physics principles and applying them to a biological situation to understand organism or tissue movement, structure or function,” he explains.
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Dr. Ryan Lewinson is a leader in biomechanics research in areas from footwear to snow shovels and has received national recognition for over 20 published articles.
ASTech Foundation
The Alberta Science and Technology Leadership (ASTech) Foundation is a not-for-profit organization founded through an industry initiative in 1989 to showcase the substantial achievements in science & technology in Alberta and to promote the importance of these activities to social and economic benefit.
