Dr. Christine Allen is a world-renowned and award-winning researcher, experienced leader and entrepreneur. Dr. Allen is a Full Professor in the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharm 
acy at the University of Toronto (U of T) where she has had a stellar 20+ year career as a researcher and entrepreneur. She is a globally renowned expert in drug formulation and development with more than 160 publications to her name and numerous successful collaborations with clinical and industry partners. She is co-founder and former president of Nanovista Inc., a company focused on high-precision, image-guided cancer therapy (featured by Scientific American as one of 10 start-ups changing healthcare). She also served as CSO of a biotech company and regularly collaborates with, and serves as an advisor to biotech and pharmaceutical companies.
During her time at U of T, she has held increasingly senior leadership roles, most recently as inaugural Associate Vice-President and Vice-Provost, Strategic Initiatives (2019 – 2022). She has also held senior leadership roles outside of academia, including most recently as the Vice-President Ecosystem Development at adMare Bioinnovations ( 2022 – 2023, one year leave from U of T). Dr. Allen is active in a range of scientific societies and has served on their boards, and most recently as President of the Controlled Release Society (CRS, 2022 – 2023) and President of the Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences (CSPS, 2020 – 2022). She also served as a member on the Governing Council of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada for four years (first term 2018 – 2020; second term 2020 – 2022). She spent 10 years as a journal editor. First, as an Associate Editor at the American Chemical Society journal Molecular Pharmaceutics then as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Controlled Release, and finally as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Controlled Release.
Dr. Allen is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, a fellow of CRS, a fellow of the CSPS and a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
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