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Long Journey in Healthcare: Canadian Entrepreneurs Matthew Sappern and Emily Hamilton of PeriGen (Part 4)

Posted on Sunday, Oct 4th

Sramana Mitra: The story that you described from 1995 to 2008 is not Perigen? Emily Hamilton: Correct. Perigen acquired all of the assets of that company. Sramana Mitra: Who’s Perigen? Matthew Sappern: Perigen is actually the combination of a company called E&C Medical, which was based in Tel Aviv that was trying to do pretty

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Long Journey in Healthcare: Canadian Entrepreneurs Matthew Sappern and Emily Hamilton of PeriGen (Part 3)

Posted on Saturday, Oct 3rd

Sramana Mitra: How many hospitals, for instance, were you able to sell your product to in that early phase right after getting the prototype? Emily Hamilton: Almost all of the hospitals in Montreal. We have two medical schools here. I had colleagues in many of the hospitals who were former students or colleagues for many

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Long Journey in Healthcare: Canadian Entrepreneurs Matthew Sappern and Emily Hamilton of PeriGen (Part 2)

Posted on Friday, Oct 2nd

Sramana Mitra: When you talk about timing, what year are we talking about? Emily Hamilton: Back in mid-1990s. Sramana Mitra: So you got a bunch of grants to get this thing off the ground. Emily Hamilton: It wasn’t exactly a grant in the traditional sense. This was money which was intended to foster research, which

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Long Journey in Healthcare: Canadian Entrepreneurs Matthew Sappern and Emily Hamilton of PeriGen (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, Oct 1st

Perigen is an amalgamation of a couple of different companies. This story relates how the entrepreneurs navigated a long journey. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by telling us a little bit about your personal background. I’d like to do that with both of you since you are co-founders. Matthew Sappern: Just for clarity’s sake, Emily developed

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