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Let the growth be organic: Icosagen's Mart Ustav

Let the growth be organic: Icosagen's Mart Ustav

TARTU – Autumn blows through Tartu on a Friday morning, tossing raindrops and red and golden leaves every which way, and Mart Ustav is in his office at Icosagen on the city's edge, ready to talk. There's nothing remotely startup here, from the watercolours on the walls

The Estonian scientist who pulled off a US IPO trying to trigger a local biotech boom

The Estonian scientist who pulled off a US IPO trying to trigger a local biotech boom

Tambet Teesalu's office sits one floor above the Laboratory of Precision and Nanomedicine at the centre of the University of Tartu. From its windows on a chilly, milky grey April day, one can see the faded green grass of an adjacent park and the roof of a supermarket.