One of the themes I am constantly aware of in the "consumer" market for early technologies is the sentiment that if one covers the BIG universities (U of T, UBC, McGill and a few others) that one has the best chance to get all of the useful technologies available in Canada. I usually argue that this is ESPECIALLY not the case in Canada because of Government funding policies that have spread the funding and the talent across the country.
So it was particularly pleasing for me to read that Dalhousie University (Dal to most who know it) recently announced it's first member of the "Million Dollar Club" - an inventor whose inventions have provided in excess of a million dollars in revenue to the university. http://innovation.dal.ca/news.php?id=107&update=1 . Congrats to Ron Leydon (TTO) and to Dr. Jana Sawynok, Professor and Chair of Dalhousie’s Department of Pharmacology and her research associate, Allison Reid and former collaborator Dr. Mike Esser of Calgary for this great achievement and for showing us that great inventions (and its successful commercialization) can happen everywhere.
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