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BEFORE ACCESSING THIS SITE, PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY AS THEY GOVERN YOUR USE OF THIS SITE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE TERMS OF USE, YOU ARE NOT GRANTED PERMISSION BY BIOVECTRA TO ACCESS OR OTHERWISE USE THIS SITE.

By accessing, viewing, or using this Site, you indicate that you understand and intend these Terms of Use to be the legal equivalent of a signed, written contract and equally binding, and that you accept such Terms of Use and agree to be legally bound by them. Please note that BIOVECTRA reserves the right to change these Terms of Use. Your continued use of this Site following such modifications will be conclusively deemed acceptance of any changes to these Terms of Use.

License Grant
This Agreement provides you with a personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use this Site conditioned on your continued compliance with the Terms of Use of this Agreement. You may print and download materials and information on this Site solely for personal and non-commercial use, provided that all hard copies contain all copyright and other applicable notices contained in such materials and information. As a further condition of use of this Site, you warrant to BIOVECTRA that you will not use this Site for any purpose that is unlawful or otherwise prohibited by these Terms of Use.

  1. You should assume that everything you see or read on this Internet Website (“Site”) may not be used except as provided in these Terms of Use or in the text on the Site, without the written permission of BIOVECTRA Inc. or its affiliates (“BIOVECTRA”).
  2. BIOVECTRA welcomes your feedback and suggestions about how to improve this Site. Any ideas, suggestions, information, know-how, material, or other content (collectively, “content”) received through this Site, however, shall be deemed to include a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, worldwide, non-exclusive right and license for BIOVECTRA to adopt, publish, reproduce, disseminate, transmit, distribute, copy, use, create derivative works, display (in whole or part), or act on such content without additional approval or consideration, in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in such content.
  3. Any communication or material you transmit to the Site, such as questions, comments, suggestions or the like, shall be treated as non-confidential and nonproprietary.
  4. Images of people or places displayed on the Site are either the property of, or used with permission by, BIOVECTRA. The use of these images by you, or anyone else authorized by you, is prohibited unless specifically permitted by these Terms of Use or specific permission provided elsewhere on the Site. Any unauthorized use of the images may violate copyright laws, trademark laws (see “INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFORMATION” below), the laws of privacy and publicity, and communications regulations and statutes. No use of any of these may be made without the prior, written authorization of the owners of this site, except to identify the products or services of BIOVECTRA.
  5. BIOVECTRA has not reviewed any or all of the sites linked to this Site and is not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of any off-site pages or any other sites linked to the Site. Your linking to the Site, off-site pages or other sites is done so at your own risk and without the permission of BIOVECTRA.
  6. Guidelines for Linking to this Site
  7. ATTENTION: LINKING TO BIOVECTRA’S SITE INDICATES THAT YOU ACCEPT BIOVECTRA’S TERMS OF USE AND LEGAL RESTRICTIONS AND THAT YOU WILL ABIDE BY THE GUIDELINES BELOW. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THESE TERMS AND AGREE TO ABIDE BY THESE GUIDELINES, DO NOT LINK TO THIS WEB SITE.
    If you link to BIOVECTRA site, you agree that you:
    • May link to, but not replicate, BIOVECTRA site content
    • Shall not frame or otherwise create a browser or border environment around BIOVECTRA site content
    • Shall not imply that BIOVECTRA is endorsing you or your products
    • Shall not misrepresent you or your site’s relationship with BIOVECTRA
    • Shall not present false, misleading or inaccurate information about BIOVECTRA or BIOVECTRA’s products or services on your site or otherwise disparage BIOVECTRA’s products
    • Shall not use BIOVECTRA’s logos without express prior written permission from BIOVECTRA
    • Shall not include content on your site that is or could be construed as illegal, distasteful, offensive or controversial and shall include on your site only content that is appropriate for all age groups
    • Shall not link to an internal page of this Site that is located one or several levels down from the home page or bring up or present content of this site on another site without BIOVECTRA’s prior written permission.
  8. BIOVECTRA may at any time revise these Terms of Use by updating this posting. You are bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this page to review the current Terms of Use to which you are bound.

Disclaimers
The information provided by this Site is not intended nor is implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health care provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

This Site may contain information on worldwide products and services, not all of which are available in every location. A reference to a product or service on this Site does not imply that such product or service is or will be available in your location. The products referred to on this Site may be subject to different regulatory requirements depending on the country of use. Consequently, visitors may be notified that certain sections of this Site are intended only for certain audiences in certain countries. You should not construe anything on this Site as a promotion or advertisement for any product or for the use of any product that is not authorized by the laws and regulations of your country of residence.

BIOVECTRA, the owner of this Site, will use reasonable efforts to include up-to-date and accurate information in this Site, but makes no representations, warranties, or assurances as to the accuracy, currency, or completeness of the information provided. BIOVECTRA shall not be liable for any damages or injury resulting from your access to, or inability to access, this Internet site, or from your reliance on any information provided at this Internet site.

This Site may provide links or references to other sites but the owners of this site have no responsibility for the content of such other sites and shall not be liable for any damages or injury arising from that content. Any links to other sites are provided as merely a convenience to the users of this Site.

Your use of this Site is at your own risk. Neither BIOVECTRA, any of its agencies, nor any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering the Site will be liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, or punitive damages arising out of your access to, or use of, the Site. Without limiting the foregoing, everything on the Site is provided to you “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NONINFRINGEMENT. Please note that some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you.

BIOVECTRA also assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable for, any damages to, or viruses that may infect, your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, browsing in the Site, or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video, or audio from the Site.

Although BIOVECTRA may from time to time monitor or review emails, discussions, postings, transmissions, and the like on the Site, BIOVECTRA is under no obligation to do so and assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the content of any such locations nor for any error, defamation, libel, slander, omission, falsehood, obscenity, pornography, profanity, danger, or inaccuracy contained in any information within such locations on the Site. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, or profane material or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law. BIOVECTRA will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing BIOVECTRA to disclose the identity of anyone posting any such information or materials.

Intellectual Property Information
BIOVECTRA, and the BIOVECTRA Pharmaceuticals logo are trademarks of a BIOVECTRA company. In addition, all trademarks, trade names, logos, taglines, service marks, trade dress, designs and products (collectively the “Trademarks”) displayed on this Site, whether marked or unmarked, are Canadian, U.S. and internationally registered and/or unregistered Trademarks of a BIOVECTRA company or their respective owner.

Nothing contained on the Site should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use any Trademarks displayed on the Site without the written permission of BIOVECTRA or such third party that may own the Trademarks displayed on the Site. Your use of the Trademarks displayed on the Site, or any other content on the Site, except as provided in these Legal Statements, is strictly prohibited. You are also advised that BIOVECTRA will strictly and aggressively enforce its intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law, including the seeking of criminal prosecution.

The materials of this Site are protected by Copyright and Trademark Laws of Canada and other countries and are owned by, or licensed to BIOVECTRA. All content of this Site is owned or controlled by BIOVECTRA. You may download content only for your personal use for non-commercial purposes but no modification or further reproduction of the content is permitted. The contents of the Site, including any images, text, executable code, and layout design may not be distributed, reproduced, publicly displayed, downloaded, modified, reused, re-posted, or otherwise used except as provided herein without the express prior written permission of the BIOVECTRA Legal Department.

BIOVECTRA neither warrants nor represents that your use of materials displayed on the Site will not infringe rights of third parties not owned by or affiliated with BIOVECTRA.

BIOVECTRA maintains this Site for your personal information, education, and communication. Please feel free to browse the Site. You may download material displayed on the Site for personal, noncommercial use only provided you also retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials. You may not, for any reason, distribute, modify, duplicate, transmit, reuse, re-post, or use the content of the Site for public or commercial purposes, including the text, images, audio, and video without BIOVECTRA’s prior written permission.

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  • 20+ years at GSK, leading R&D activities on multiple vaccine programs
  • Recently held positions in industry include: Senior Director (Function Head), Protein Biochemistry; Director, Antigen Design & Prototype Production; and, Associate Director, Antigen Design and Protein Characterization.
  • Key areas of expertise are:
    • Process development of protein Biologics/Recombinant Antigens
    • Recombinant protein expression (mammalian, insect, yeast, bacterial)
    • Production/design of Viral Vectors, mRNA vaccines, Bacterial outer membrane vesicles
    • Protein Engineering and Structural Biology
    • Defining quality attributes, biophysical characterization of proteins, and analytical strategy
  • Post graduate degrees in Functional Genomics (Université Laval) and Bioinformatics (MIT); M. Sc. Microbiology and Immunology (Laval).
  • 25+ Patent & 5 Scientific Publications

Normand Blais – Senior Director Development & Innovation, Biologics

  • 20+ years at GSK, leading R&D activities on multiple vaccine programs
  • Recently held positions in industry include: Senior Director (Function Head), Protein Biochemistry; Director, Antigen Design & Prototype Production; and, Associate Director, Antigen Design and Protein Characterization.
  • Key areas of expertise are:
    • Process development of protein Biologics/Recombinant Antigens
    • Recombinant protein expression (mammalian, insect, yeast, bacterial)
    • Production/design of Viral Vectors, mRNA vaccines, Bacterial outer membrane vesicles
    • Protein Engineering and Structural Biology
    • Defining quality attributes, biophysical characterization of proteins, and analytical strategy
  • Post graduate degrees in Functional Genomics (Université Laval) and Bioinformatics (MIT); M. Sc. Microbiology and Immunology (Laval).
  • 25+ Patent & 5 Scientific Publications

Oliver Technow - Chief Executive Officer

  • Industry Master Degree from Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce, Frankfurt Germany.
  • More than 20 years of global pharmaceutical industry experience.
  • Held numerous leadership positions in commercial development, marketing and brand management, and lifecycle management and has extensive product launch and market access expertise in Europe and North America.
  • In 1997, joined Eisai GmbH in Frankfurt, Germany and in 2002, was appointed Director, CNS Business Unit; in 2006, was appointed Vice President, Head of Global Marketing for Eisai Inc. in Woodcliff Lake, NJ;  in 2011, was appointed Vice President, Established Products Business Unit; in 2013, was appointed President & General Manager for Eisai Limited in Mississauga, ON.
  • Appointed President of BIOVECTRA Inc., December 10, 2015.
  • Board Director for BIOTECanada
  • Member of the Steering Council of Innovative Medicines Canada (IMC)
  • In 2017, appointed to the Government of Canada’s Health/Bio-sciences Strategic Economic Table
  • In November 2019, promoted to Chief Executive Officer at BIOVECTRA
  • In June 2020, named new Chair of PEI BioAlliance Board of Directors