Transcript Precision NanoSystems

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
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Why you should start a biotech?
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How can you start a biotech?
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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
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Pieter Cullis
Carl Hansen
Dan Nixon
Steve Fane
Nathan Belliveau
Andre Wild
Tim leaver
Jens Huft
Chen Wan
Igor Jigaltsev
Cullis/Hansen labs
Partners
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UBC UILO
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Ian Bell
Mario Kasapi
Joshua Eades
Brad Wheeler
Lynsey Huxham
NRC-IRAP
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Mentors
Graham North
Paul Barran
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Genome BC
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Richard Howlett
Gabe Kalmar
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
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Akin Akinc
Hila Epstein-Barash
Research organizations
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UBC
Prostate Centre
BC Cancer Agency
BC Excels
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Alexei Marko
Shaun Foy
Barry Allen
Paul Geyer
+ other mentors
NVBC
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Andrew Booth
David Dunnison
Kevin James
Scott Phillips
+ jury
Companies
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LightIntegra Technology
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Elizabeth Maurer
Boreal Genomics
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Andre Marziali
SBN - Start Biotech Now
Nature Trade Secrets blog
blogs.nature.com/trade_secrets/
Biotech Start
biotechstart.org
James
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Euan
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