Biotechnology: the brain gain arrives at an empty treasury

Recruiting talent is only the first step, and the pathway is broken at the grant level as funding fails to keep up with recruitment.
Our funding system supports discovery, while venture capital is interested once it reaches the clinic. Between them sits work that neither reliably funds, writes Adam Damry.

Two years ago, I argued that Canadian biotechnology sat on a knife's edge: extraordinary science, an educated population, and nowhere near enough investment to keep either. That balance has shifted, not because we fixed anything, but because our largest competitor broke some...

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