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So You Want to Work in
Biotech?
Then Start a Company
Euan Ramsay and James Taylor
Precision NanoSystems Inc.
SBN - Start Biotech Now
Start a Biotech
o
Why you should start a biotech?
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How can you start a biotech?
o
Case study – Precision NanoSystems
Why?
Societal Need
Food
Environment
Healthcare
Climate
Technical Skills
Absence of Opportunity
Resources Galore!
Training is unparalleled
Start Biotech Now
Societal need
Technical skills
Absence of opportunity
Resources galore
Training unparalleled
How?
First steps
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Find a entrepreneurial co-founder
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Find an academic co-founder
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Engage the technology transfer office
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Leverage local resources
Leverage Start-up
R&D
Infrastructure
- Product development
Technical
Expertise
- Scientific Advisory Board
“Leverage”
Start-up
Commercialization
Resources
- Business Development
Non-Dilutive
Funding
- Financing
http://blogs.nature.com/trade_secrets/2011/06/09/the-leverage-start-up-model
- Mentors (ER)
- Seminars
- IP
- Contracts
Start-up services
voucher ($5K)
- testing
- finance
$47K
$30K
- Mentors (JT)
- Seminars
Team grant - $2.5M
TDIF grant - $50K
I2I grant - $125K
- Mentors
- Seminars
Acknowledgements
Team
Pieter Cullis
Carl Hansen
Dan Nixon
Steve Fane
Nathan Belliveau
Andre Wild
Tim leaver
Jens Huft
Chen Wan
Igor Jigaltsev
Cullis/Hansen labs
Partners
UBC UILO
Ian Bell
Mario Kasapi
Joshua Eades
Brad Wheeler
Lynsey Huxham
NRC-IRAP
Mentors
Graham North
Paul Barran
Genome BC
Richard Howlett
Gabe Kalmar
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
Akin Akinc
Hila Epstein-Barash
Research organizations
UBC
Prostate Centre
BC Cancer Agency
BC Excels
Alexei Marko
Shaun Foy
Barry Allen
Paul Geyer
+ other mentors
NVBC
Andrew Booth
David Dunnison
Kevin James
Scott Phillips
+ jury
Companies
LightIntegra Technology
Elizabeth Maurer
Boreal Genomics
Andre Marziali
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