Alicja Parker
Chief Operating Officer
Operational Management and Development
Contextual Genomics
Canada
Biography
Ms. Parker is a graduate of the University of Toronto where she earned her MSc degree in the department of Molecular and Medical Genetics. She later performed predictive testing for Huntington Disease at the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics in Vancouver. After earning her MBA degree from the Sauder School of Business, she marketed medical devices for the LifeScan division of Johnson and Johnson. She later joined Inex Pharmaceuticals Corporation where she was responsible for licensing and marketing of cancer immunotherapy products. Immediately prior to Contextual Genomics, Ms. Parker held the lead business role at the BC Cancer Agency’s Centre for Translational and Applied Genomics (CTAG), a diagnostic cancer assay development and validation facility.
Research Interest
Molecular and Medical Genetics
