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In 1986 Julia Levy was giving a talk to some doctors in Waterloo, Ontario about her work on new light-activated drugs.
A few years before, she had formed a spinoff company called Quadra Logic Technologies (now QLT Inc.) to commercialize her university research. The doctors were trying these drugs on cancer patients and they were very upset because Johnson & Johnson, another drug company, was closing down their Photofrin research program.
Photofrin was one of the new photodynamic drugs, and it appeared to be effective against cancer.
Julia levy scientist biography
Many people were being helped by this technology, but soon they would not be able to get the drug. “It was a very upsetting experience for me,” says Levy, who until that point had worked on these drugs only in a laboratory.
“For the first time, I became aware that we were talking about real patients being treated for real cancer.”
That night, on the plane flying back to Van