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s the saying goes, necessity is the mother of
invention. It 1998, while Dr. George Ambartsoumian
Awas a post-doctoral fellow at the Shriner’s Hospital
in Montreal, Quebec, the labels on his samples kept failing
because he was storing them in liquid nitrogen and working
with harsh chemicals.
Dr. Ambartsoumian’s problem sparked the idea behind
GA International, the Quebec-based R&D company and
manufacturer behind world-leading specialty materials,
labels, and adhesive products for biomedical and
biopharmaceutical laboratories.
ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR
In December 2019, Dr. Ambartsoumian was awarded the
EY Entrepreneur of The Year Award® for the Health/Life
Sciences category in the Quebec region. “George is a real
inventor,” says Valerie Deslauriers, marketing specialist at
GA. “We have a lot of intellectual property, with two patented
products and several others that are patent-pending. George
is always thinking up new ideas.”
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