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Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
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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.
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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.
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MEDIA
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ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- FacultyUniversity Health Network, STTARR Innovation Centre, Toronto, Canada2008 - present
- Visiting ScientistUniversity Health Network, STTARR Innovation Centre, Toronto, Canada2009 - 2010
NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Associate DirectorMolecular Design and Information Technology Center2002 - 2006
- Assistant Director Materials ResearchCelator Pharmaceuticals Corp, United States2002 - 2002
- Research Scientist II (IRAP Project Leader)Celator Pharmaceuticals Corp, United States2001 - 2002
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
- NSERC Post-Doctoral FellowB.C. Cancer Agency, Department of Advanced Therapeutics, Canada2000 - 2004Supervised by Bally & Mayer
- Post-Doctoral FellowUniversity of British Columbia, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Canada2000 - 2000Supervised by Burt H
LANGUAGES
- EnglishCan 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)