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Christine Allen

Professor

Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy

  • Professor
    Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
  • 416-946-8594 (Work)

BIO

Christine Allen is a Professor and the inaugural Associate Vice-President and Vice-Provost of Strategic Initiatives at the University of Toronto. She completed her doctoral research in the Department of Chemistry at McGill University and post-doctoral research in the Department of Advanced Therapeutics at the B.C. Cancer Agency. She joined the University of Toronto in 2002 and has established a leading research group focused on the design of innovative materials and drug delivery technologies with over 140 peer-reviewed publications in her field. She is co-founder of Nanovista Inc., a J&J Innovations JLabs company developing multi-modal visualization agents for high-precision image-guided cancer therapy.

She has received career awards from CIHR/Rx&D, the Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences (CSPS) and the Association of Faculties of Pharmacy of Canada. She is a fellow of CSPS, the Controlled Release Society and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS). Christine is the President of CSPS and a member of the Governing Council and Executive Committee of NSERC. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Controlled Release, a pre-eminent journal in pharmaceutics and drug delivery. Christine is a member of the Toronto Initiative for Diversity and Excellence and a strong advocate for equity, diversity and inclusion in research and innovation. In 2019, she launched the book club “Women in STEM: Leading and Reading” for faculty, staff and students at the University of Toronto.

Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online

MEDIA

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Faculty
    University Health Network, STTARR Innovation Centre, Toronto, Canada2008 - present
  • Visiting Scientist
    University Health Network, STTARR Innovation Centre, Toronto, Canada2009 - 2010

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Associate Director
    Molecular Design and Information Technology Center2002 - 2006
  • Assistant Director Materials Research
    Celator Pharmaceuticals Corp, United States2002 - 2002
  • Research Scientist II (IRAP Project Leader)
    Celator Pharmaceuticals Corp, United States2001 - 2002

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellow
    B.C. Cancer Agency, Department of Advanced Therapeutics, Canada2000 - 2004
    Supervised by Bally & Mayer
  • Post-Doctoral Fellow
    University of British Columbia, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Canada2000 - 2000
    Supervised by Burt H

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review

AVAILABILITY

  • Media enquiries
  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

  • Acceleration Consortium
  • CRAFT (Centre for Research and Applications in Fluidic Technologies)
  • TC3 (Toronto Cannabis and Cannabinoid Consortium)
  • PRiME (Precision Medicine Initiative)
  • Data Sciences Institute (DSI)

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