Majid RoshanfarPhD
Co-founder & CEO
Postdoctoral fellow, SickKids
Surgical-robotics engineer. Eight years making surgery safer with robots. Leads the venture.
Team
The surgeon who invented it still operates.
Ossentra came out of PCIGITI at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto, a lab where the engineers sit in on the case. The requirements came from watching a repair and seeing the instrument run out before the surgeon did.
Founders
Dale PodolskyMD, PhD
Chief Medical Officer
Pediatric craniofacial surgeon · Co-Director, PCIGITI
Surgeon, engineer, and inventor of the device. He still operates, which is why the requirements came from a real case instead of a market study.
Thomas LooiPhD
Chief Operating Officer
Co-Lead, PCIGITI
Fifteen years translating surgical innovation from bench to clinic. Owns the path to something a hospital can buy, reprocess and trust.
Jones LawPhD Candidate
Chief Technology Officer
PCIGITI, SickKids
Engineering lead and first author on the characterization paper. Owns the bending section, the end-effector, and the punch-to-dura tolerance stack.
From paper to product
Research asks if it's possible. Founding asks if it reaches the patient.
- 01
Validate
Shadowed surgeons in the OR. The gap wasn't knowledge. It was an instrument.
- 02
Build
Prototyped inside PCIGITI with a craniofacial surgeon in the room, then characterized on the bench.
- 03
Protect
US patent filed through SickKids Industry Partnerships & Commercialization.
- 04
Launch
Spun out as Ossentra, backed by a SickKids Proof-of-Principle grant and UTEST 2026.
Built on
Not done alone.
Supported by a SickKids Proof-of-Principle grant and a CIHR Project Grant, with a US patent filed through SickKids.
- SickKidsClinical home, IP, and the Proof-of-Principle grant
- PCIGITIThe lab the instrument was designed and built in
- UTEST2026 cohort, early-stage technology incubation
Hiring: mechanism design, verification, regulatory.
Taken a Class II instrument through a 510(k) and out the other side? We'd like to hear from you.