Industry Leadership
Award Description
This
award is given to the individual who demonstrates exemplary vision and
leadership in Canadian biotechnology in a global context, in terms of
of industry development and/or commercial success. The recipient is
recognized for their commitment to promoting and supporting the growth
of the biotech industry in Canada.David Allan - 2012 Industry Leadership Award
YM received the “Emerging Life Sciences of the Year Award” in 2011 from Life Sciences Ontario and “Canada’s Top 10 Life Sciences Companies” awards in 2006 and 2005.
YM is believed to be the first company outside of the United States to receive a Special Protocol Assessment (2001), and was the first biotechnology company in North America listed on the London Stock Exchange coincident with TSX listing in 2002. At YM he completed financings and acquisitions totaling approximately $300 million with acquisitions in Canada the USA and Australia.
Previously a Governor of the Toronto Stock Exchange he was founding and sunset chair of the TSX’s Market Access Implementation Committee that radically changed listing requirements of the TSX resulting in access to capital by Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. In 1992 he founded the first science-specific investment banking team in Canada creating a number of life sciences companies including the novel Drug Royalty Corporation, YM BioSciences and others.
Mr Allan has been a member of the Awards Selection Committee for the Networks of Centres of Excellence, a member of the Ontario Biotechnology Advisory Board. He is a board member of Life Sciences Ontario and the Emerging Companies Advisory Board of BIOTECanada.
2001- 2011 Past Award Recipients
2011 - Yves Rosconi (see profile)2010 - Murray McLaughlin, Sustainable Chemistry Alliance (see profile)
2009 - Natalie Dakers, Centre for Drug Research and Development (see profile)
2008 - Dr. John Evans, MaRS
2007 - Ray Mowling, Council for Biotechnology Information (Canada)
2006 - Dr. Alex McPherson, Biomira
2005 - Theresa Kennedy, Hill & Knowlton Canada
2004 - Peter McCann, President of Ag-West Bio Inc. (Retired)
2003 - J. Mark Lievonen, President, Aventis Pasteur
2002 - Gord Surgeoner, President, Ontario Agri-Food Technologies
2001 - Burleigh Trevor-Deutsch, Bioethicist, Burleigh Trevor-Deutsch Consulting
