BIOVECTRA partners on Canadian solution to establish a domestic supply chain for immunotherapies

  BIOVECTRA is pleased to be part of a Canadian solution with our NGEN partners CCRM, Precision Nanosytems (Cytiva), Northern RNA, and OmniaBio to establish a Canadian supply chain network to accelerate and standardize lentiviral vector development from clinical to commercial manufacturing.  Together we are building a next-generation immunotherapy manufacturing platform that will be used for new […]

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BIOVECTRA Launches Specialized Capabilities in mRNA Drug Product Development and Biomanufacturing

CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, November 17th, 2023 –  Today BIOVECTRA celebrates the completion of its $90 million plus biologics expansion at the company’s new state-of-the-art Biomanufacturing Centre with project partners the Government of Canada and Government of Prince Edward Island. “This expansion places BIOVECTRA at the forefront of supporting the next generation of treatments for today’s […]

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BIOVECTRA Signs Service Agreement with Acuitas Therapeutics for Unique Lipid Nanoparticle (LNP) Delivery System Used in Manufacturing mRNA-Based Therapies

CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, October 5, 2023 – BIOVECTRA and Acuitas Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that they have entered into a technology transfer service agreement under which BIOVECTRA will accept, on a non-exclusive basis, Acuitas’ best-in-class LNP technology platform for manufacturing mRNA-based therapeutics. “We are thrilled about this partnership with Acuitas […]

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BIOVECTRA Welcomes Normand Blais to Senior Director, Development & Innovation, Biologics Role

  Charlottetown, P.E.I. (January 18, 2023) – BIOVECTRA is pleased to announce that Normand Blais was appointed as Senior Director, Development & Innovation, Biologics.  Reporting to the Chief Science Officer, Mr. Blais will be responsible for the strategic direction shaping BIOVECTRA’s pDNA & mRNA vaccine process science program. Mr. Blais is accomplished in early-candidate vaccine […]

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BIOVECTRA Named One of Canada’s Top Employers Again in 2023

  Charlottetown, P.E.I. (November 22, 2022) – BIOVECTRA was selected as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers for a second consecutive year and is considered amongst the country’s leading workplaces. BIOVECTRA is a fast growing, forward-thinking contract development, and manufacturing organization (CDMO) solving complex challenges to improve patient care for some of the world’s top […]

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BIOVECTRA Expands Manufacturing Capacity with Single-Use Microbial Fermentation Technology

  Charlottetown, CANADA, October 31, 2022 – BIOVECTRA is ready to accept projects at its manufacturing facility in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada, for its new, single-use biologics fermentation suite. Containing 100 L and 1,000 L single-use fermenters, this state-of-the-art process train enhances BIOVECTRA’s microbial fermentation overall network of capacity and allows BIOVECTRA to support even […]

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BIOVECTRA Named to True North List of Leading Canadian Companies

  CHARLOTTETOWN, PEI – BIOVECTRA was recently named to Communitech’s True North list as one of Canada’s high performing tech companies that has a promising growth trajectory. Team True North is a roster of Canadian innovation companies shown by verified data to have the highest probability of reaching $1B in revenue. As global markets experience […]

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BIOVECTRA Starts Construction on its Charlottetown mRNA Biomanufacturing Centre

  Charlottetown, P.E.I. (April 14, 2022) – BIOVECTRA broke ground today, with help from provincial and federal officials, on a cutting-edge facility that will manufacture mRNA vaccines and therapeutics starting in 2023. BIOVECTRA’s mRNA Vaccine and Biomanufacturing Centre will add 36,000 square feet to its existing Charlottetown campus and, when operational, the cGMP facility will […]

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BIOVECTRA mRNA Vaccine and Bio-manufacturing Facility Announced

  Charlottetown, P.E.I. (November 18, 2021) – BIOVECTRA today announced plans for the development of a state-of-the-art facility specializing in the production and manufacturing of mRNA vaccines and therapeutics – one of the first of its kind in Canada. This exciting new capability will result from a joint private-public investment made by BIOVECTRA and the […]

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BIOVECTRA HONOURED TO BE NAMED ONE OF CANADA’S TOP 100 EMPLOYERS 2022

Charlottetown, P.E.I. (November 12, 2021) – BIOVECTRA is proud to be selected as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers for 2022 and considered amongst some of the country’s leading workplaces. As one of four Atlantic Canadian companies selected, BIOVECTRA is a fast growing, forward-thinking, global pharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) solving complex challenges […]

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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