Hey there, my name is Renee and I'm the new co-op student at GHBN. I've been brought to GHBN to learn all about the business world as well as getting a feel for the bioscience aspect. I'm not a major in bio but I've always been interested in biology from the courses I've taken in high school and am fortunate enough to have this opportunity. I started my placement just last week and have been hurdled into a new environment with some pretty cool responsibilities and freedoms. So don't mind me as I try to get a feel for the corporate world!
Lucky for me it's National Biotech Week! (http://www.imagenenation.ca/)
Just yesterday GHBN helped host an Innovation Breakfast which is usually held on the second Tuesday of every month but got moved to accommodate the special occasion. It was my first ever networking project, scary I know, but I enjoyed it immensely. The speaker at yesterday’s breakfast was Dr. Yousef Haj-Ahmad who created a Canadian based company called Norgen Biotek Corp. (http://www.norgenbiotek.com). What the company does is it creates kits to isolate specific substances from a sample, such as DNA or proteins from a blood sample. These kits are bought for academic purposes by universities all over North America such as McGill, Yale and even McMaster, as well as many organizations outside of Canada such as the FBI. Makes me proud to be Canadian.
Currently the company has over 70 different types of kits to be used for research as well as different purposes and that number is thought to go up to 95 at years end. Norgen Biotek is on the cutting edge of quality and has new innovations that other companies lack.
Now you may be asking why does a high school student find this so interesting? Well I love CSI (http://bit.ly/f6wbG) and I love learning about genetics, DNA and anything to do with bio, so being able to see something, a product that is real and does real things with real research and real people behind it, instead of seeing an actor act out what's supposed to happen and not what's actually taking place, well that's pretty cool!
So check out National Biotech Week, find an event and learn something new. I know I have and I look forward to sitting in and listening at the next Innovation Breakfast.
~Renee
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