U of G Physicist is Helping Canada Lead the Next Wave of Skincare Innovation

Dr. John Dutcher and his team developed a gentle isolation method, now protected under the PhytoSpherix patent, to preserve the natural structure of plant-based glycogen extracted from Ontario sweet corn.

This innovation—developed with support from the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance—has turned a renewable ingredient into a powerful skincare active that helps skin stay hydrated and resilient through changing climates.

• Read the recent story in Vainqueur Magazine: PhytoSpherix®: Canada’s Answer to K-Beauty

• Look back more than a decade to the early stages of the work to develop this method with funding from the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance, a collaboration between the Government of Ontario and the University of Guelph: Small Molecules Have Big Applications