Science and business do mix: The Toronto Research Chemicals story
CLASS SUMMARY
Dr. David Dime tells the story of the growth of Toronto Research Chemicals from a one-man part-time company in 1982 to a world leader in the manufacture of complex organic chemicals for biomedical and pharmaceutical research.
Speaker: Dr. Dave Dime, founder of Toronto Research Chemicals
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DATE | TIME | LOCATION
February 6, 20075:30PM - 6:30PM
MaRS Centre Auditorium
101 College St, Toronto
DOWNLOADS AND RESOURCES
- Blog - class summary, downloads, Q&A
- Session presentation - Broadband connection (mp4)
- Session presentation - Dial-up connection (mp4)
- David Dime's Presentation (pdf)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
David Dime graduated from the University of Toronto in 1978 with a Ph.D. in chemistry. After post-doctoral appointments at Ohio State University, and subsequently at Sandoz in Basel, Switzerland, he returned to the University of Toronto where he started Toronto Research Chemicals Inc. as a service company within the Faculty of Medicine.Toronto Research Chemicals Inc. now occupies 42,000 sq. ft. of laboratory and pilot plant, employs 70 people and manufactures 7500 complex organic compounds, including drug metabolites, enzyme inhibitors and activators, carbohydrates, nucleic acid derivatives, fluorescent labels, and chemical building blocks, to serve a world-wide market of researchers at hospitals, universities, research institutes and pharmaceutical and biotechnology based corporations.
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