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Aspect Biosystems

Aspect Biosystems is a Vancouver biotech that bioprints living tissues designed to be implanted in the body and replace function lost to disease. Spun out of a UBC lab in 2013, its lead work targets type 1 diabetes with a glucose-sensing, insulin-releasing implant. It has raised over US$350M.

BiotechVancouverFounded 2013aspectbiosystems.com
US$350M+raised in total, with a team of 100+Aspect Biosystems, retrieved 2026-07-16
US$115MSeries B led by Dimension, announced January 2025T1D Fund, 2025
US$75Minitial payments from Novo Nordisk in the 2023 partnership, plus up to US$650M in milestones per productRadical Ventures, 2024-05-13

The people

Tamer MohamedFounder & CEO · 2 TechTO talks
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Sam WadsworthCo-founder & Chief Scientific Officerprofile coming
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Simon BeyerCo-founder & Chief Technology Officerprofile coming
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Konrad WalusCo-founder; UBC professor whose lab produced the core technologyprofile coming

What they build

Bioprinted pancreatic tissueAn implant for type 1 diabetes that senses glucose and releases insulinProduct page ↗
Bioprinted liver tissuePrinted liver tissue as a bridge to regeneration or transplantProduct page ↗

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About

Aspect Biosystems began in a UBC lab and was in the first cohort of the entrepreneurship@UBC program — Tamer Mohamed calls the team the guinea pigs of that program. The company's mission, as he puts it on the TechTO stage, is bioprinted tissue therapeutics: living tissues implanted inside the body to replace damaged function. Its lead programme is a pancreatic tissue implant for type 1 diabetes that senses glucose and releases insulin; it is also working on printed liver tissue as a bridge to transplant. Novo Nordisk partnered with it in 2023, and a US$115M Series B led by Dimension followed in January 2025.

Backers

Dimension led the US$115M Series B, with Novo Nordisk, Radical Ventures, InBC, Pallasite Ventures, Pangaea Ventures, Rhino Ventures and the T1D Fund participating. The Government of Canada and the Province of BC are non-dilutive partners.

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Quick answers

What does Aspect Biosystems do?

It bioprints living tissues that are implanted in the body to replace function lost to disease — rather than printing tissue for lab testing. Its lead programme is a pancreatic implant for type 1 diabetes that senses glucose and releases insulin.

Who founded Aspect Biosystems?

Tamer Mohamed, Sam Wadsworth, Simon Beyer and Konrad Walus, out of Walus's lab at UBC in 2013. Walus was CEO until 2016, when Mohamed moved from CTO to CEO.

How much has Aspect Biosystems raised?

Over US$350M, including a US$115M Series B led by Dimension in January 2025. In April 2026 it announced a $280M multi-year partnership with the Government of Canada that includes $79M in federal funding.

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