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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

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