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Ottawa risks seeing its best and brightest biotech startups leave for greener pastures because the city lacks the infrastructure to help turn promising ideas into viable commercial products, a prominent scientist and entrepreneur says.
“At the end
Virica Biotech, an Ottawa-based medical sciences startup co-founded by Ella Korets-Smith, uses breakthrough tech to help improve disease-fighting gene therapies.