Good Sunday Larry and Bob and allInteresting interview. The history of Canada
becoming completely dependent on others for our "value added" (read costly)
goods is a sad one. I think this is driven by a perception of a small market,
supposed efficiencies of scale in larger markets and compounded by low risk
tolerance in investing and lack of Canafian based venture capital. We have as
a culture discounted Canadian ingenuity and creativity to the extent that few
people who are able are prepared to support early stage translation of ideas
into the commercial world. There are enough notable and brilliant Canadian
successes to demonstrate that it can be done. We need to believe in
ourselves.Vaccine production is an example that has been driven to the
forefront. Vaccine production for the Canadian market alone is probably not
normally sustainable, but creating a Contract Manufacturing Organization (CMO)
to produce RNA therapies in general would be a very good bet to succeed.
First, they would be selling services to a globsl market which is seeking
reliable alternate suppliers minimally sensitive to global politicsl vagaries.
Canada has the global reputation that would support our role. Second, vaccines
are only the thin edge of the wedge when it comes to RNA therapies.
Conceivably any disease in which a protein is missing, defective, over- or
under-produced could potentially be targeted by RNA therapy. Think diabetes or
breast cancer as examples. There are other novel RNA therapies for similar
diseases now at or approaching regulatory approvals. Conflict of interest
statement: I am working to build a company with a novel way of making RNA
therapies more stable. I am quite passionate and convinced that this can be
done. Someone will do this.....I would love it to be a Canadian
success.YITBOS,JimSent from my Samsung device over Bell's LTE network.
-------- Original message --------
From: Bob Thomlinson <bthomlinson@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 07-02-2021 11:08 (GMT-05:00)
To: DSP-EA-General@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Astro Zeneca Vaccine
Larry, I finally had the time to watch your Sir John Bell interview video and
yes, it was interesting. Too bad the interviewer kept trying to get Bell to
say that Canada had screwed up. It gets tiring hearing the media constantly
trying to play Wack-a-Mole and find fault with every decision made in the past
that didn’t work out as expected. Even though the interviewer didn’t ask what
we should be doing going forward, Bell gave an opinion that seems to align with
the current efforts to manufacture at home. Thanks for this,Bob T From: Wynn
Payne <wynn.payne@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: February 4, 2021 11:24 AMSubject: Fwd: Astro
Zeneca Vaccine ---------- Forwarded message ---------From: Larry Kolmatycki
<lkolmatycki@xxxxxxxxxxx>Date: Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 9:15 AMSubject: Astro Zeneca
VaccineTo: traveler1031@xxxxxxxxxxx <traveler1031@xxxxxxxxxxx> Hello, I
received this from a friend. It is CTV interview with Sir John Bell of Oxford
University in England. He is a graduate of the U of A (1975). He was
instrumental in the development of Astro Zeneca. He describes the United
Kingdom’s situation and it raises many questions about what we are doing.
https://northernontario.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2130105Larry Get Outlook for iOS
