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September/October 2022 - ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR

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BCBUSINESS.CA E N T R E P R E N E U R O F T H E Y E A R 2 0 2 2 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2022 BCBUSINESS 59 W hen Euan Ram- say met James Taylor in 2009, he knew that his life was about to change: "Suddenly, me doing a three-year apprentice- ship could be replaced by an instrument that's sort of like an espresso machine." At the time, Ramsay, who hails from Scot- land, was working as a postdoc- toral fellow with physicist and biochemist Pieter Cullis at the Centre for Drug Research and Development ( CDRD), a local technology transfer group. Armed with a PhD in nanoparticles, Ramsay origi- nally came to Canada circa 2001 to work at the BC Cancer Agency with Cullis's first postdoc, Mar- cel Bally. It wasn't long before he ended up at the CDRD. "Normally, drugs are just one molecule," Ramsay ex- plains. "Nanoparticles are composed of hundreds of thou- sands of molecules brought together in a particular way to form the particle." Although he was working as the business development man- ager (looking for non-dilutive funding, grants and founda- tion awards to support the programs moving through the CDRD), he knew what it took to make those particles himself. Making them can be more of an art than a science: "It was W I N N E R S Euan Ramsay + James Taylor C O - F O U N D E R S , P R E C I S I O N N A N O S Y S T E M S

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