Researching cancer and making use of discoveries

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Written By Stuart McNish

Guest: Dr. Sam Aparicio (cancer researcher)

Dr. Sam Aparicio of BC Cancer, studying medicine was always the plan, but research became his passion. Unbeknownst to him, research also involves many skills that didn’t expect, such as grant-writing, which he had to learn along the way. This led him down other side pathways, such as starting a biotech company to commercialize some of the findings in the genomics field.

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