I got into medical school here in Ottawa. When I graduated from medical school, I got the award for the person who skipped the most classes in medical school and still graduated. What I did all that time when I skipped class was spend time in the lab. I was always trying to invent stuff.
The guys over at the microbiology department of the Ottawa Hospital were very helpful. I ended up inventing some new way to do DNA testing. Then the University of Ottawa tech transfer office helped me commercialize that and raise venture capital. From the ashes of that company—as we shut it down—came Spartan Bioscience, which we started 12 years ago.