David Allan
Director
Pharmaceuticals
Life Sciences Ontario
Canada
Biography
David Allan is the recipient of the 2016 Life Sciences Ontario Leadership Award and the 2012 Gold Leaf Award from the Canadian industry’s national organization BIOTECanada. He was the founding and sunset chairman of YM BioSciences Inc., and CEO from 1998-2011; Founding Chairman of Formation Biologics; Executive Chairman of Stem Cell Therapeutics (now Trillium Therapeutics) and a board member of numerous private and public companies including Avivagen Inc. He has been a member of the Awards Selection Committee of Canada’s Networks of Centres of Excellence and the Multidisciplinary Assessment Committee of the Canada Foundation for Innovation and was formerly a Governor of the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Research Interest
Multidisciplinary Assessment in Biologics
