Constance has had an interesting journey: from psychotherapist, to managing money and then to making investments. She syndicated low-income housing for the working poor, developed through a non-profit. And, she is now a cannabis grower, manufacturer, consultant and activist. Constance has started a collective called Constance Pure Botanical Extracts that grows strains of cannabis purported to have cancer healing properties and extracts the plants into concentrated extracts. Her inspiration for starting her company comes from her own experience with cannabis extract as a therapy. She treated her ankylosis spondylitis, a chronic arthritis of the spine and the sacroiliac joints. After publicity about her work had led physicians in other specialities to her, she is working with them and their Lyme’s, auto-immune, systemic arthritis, chronic pain, seizure, etc. patients. Two different groups of physicians and scientists are underway with research on the efficacy of her cannabis oil.

Kevin Chen's passion for synthetic biology began at an early age and grew with him as he constantly sought out greater challenges. He lead an award winning iGEM team in 2012 while exploring new ideas in combining dance and science communication. He worked on a modular drug design system for targeting defects causing Alzheimer’s, cataracts, and other diseases. While hacking biology with Synbiota, he co-founded Montreal’s DIYbio group: Bricobio. He spent a year at McGill University working on engineering the structure and function of non-ribosomal peptide synthetase systems before leaving to co-found Hyasynth Bio. As members of the Synbio Axlr8r, him and his team use DNA synthesis and metabolic engineering to redesign yeast to produce the active components of Cannabis.

http://bkevinchen.com/

http://world.lapaillasse.org/kevin-chen-bricobio/

http://www.fslocal.com/blog/young-gun-kevin-chen-co-founder-coo-hyasynth-bio/