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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BIOVECTRA ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF GORDON C. MCCAULEY AND STEVEN M. KLOSK TO BOARD

Charlottetown, P.E.I. (October 21, 2021) – BIOVECTRA, a leading Canadian biotech and pharmaceutical CDMO has appointed Gordon C. McCauley, President and CEO of adMare BioInnovations and Steven Klosk CEO (retired) Cambrex Corporation, to its board of directors. “Mr. Klosk and Mr. McCauley are innovative executives who offer a wealth of experience to the BIOVECTRA Board […]

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Biovectra Enhances Manufacturing Capacity and Flexibility with ABEC’s CSR® Large-Scale, Single-Use Microbial Fermentation Technology

For immediate release ABEC’s Custom Single Run (CSR) fermentation solutions offer working volumes up to 1,000 liters  Bethlehem, PA, USA, and Charlottetown, CANADA, September 20, 2021 – ABEC, a global provider of integrated solutions and services for biopharmaceutical manufacturing and BIOVECTRA, a CDMO specializing in clinical-to-commercial scale production of high-quality regulated Biologics, Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients, […]

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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