J. John Vidmar

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About J. John Vidmar

Dr. John Vidmar is the Chief Operating Officer for Canna Stream Solutions Ltd. CSS is developing critical technologies for storing, transportation and processing of cannabis waste (physical and chemical). Most notably, they have filed a US and Canadian patent application in the chemical extraction and fractionation of Cannabinoids and monoterpenes from cannabis flower and biomass utilizing their solvent technology that is significantly more efficient than ethanol. This gives CSS the ability to significantly manage costs of high throughput processing and extraction of cannabis and hemp biomass. For more information about the company, please visit Dr. John Vidmar has worked in agricultural research for over 20 years. He was a senior scientist and genomics team lead at Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures, where he focused on the evaluation and breeding of both Cannabis sativa and barley. John holds a Ph.D. in Botany from the University of British Columbia, where he worked on plant nutrition and assimilation in barley. He spent 2 years as a postdoctoral fellow at INRA, Montpellier, France, supported by the ministry of foreign affairs, working on nitrogen and sulphur transport in plants. In John joined AITF working as an NSERC industrial postdoctoral fellow in collaboration with plant biotech start-up company (Agrigenomics) working on nitrogen use efficiency in canola. Subsequently, appointed as a staff scientist, he has developed a research team working on the use of applied genomics in agriculture. He has worked on number of agricultural and model plant system for the bio-economy.