April 2010
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PlantForm is ideally positioned to meet the fast-growing demand for affordable antibody medicines: it has a novel, versatile and scalable manufacturing platform with an excellent management team that can execute on a well thought out plan."
Peter Pekos
PlantForm investor
President & CEO, Dalton Chemical
Laboratories Inc.
Industry news
Abbott Acquires Facet Biotech The deal — worth a total of $450 million — gives Abbott access to biologics in two key therapeutic areas: immunology and oncology.
Ensemble Discovery partners with Pfizer Strategic alliance aims to discover and develop novel drugs against high-value pharmaceutical targets.
Pfizer-Protalix Deal Bolsters Competition for Genzyme Pfizer has agreed to pay at least $60 million for rights to Protalix BioTherapeutics’s experimental drug for Gaucher’s disease.
An independent expert panel of Canadian and U.S. venture capitalists selected PlantForm as a leading investment opportunity and winner in the life sciences category of Canada’s
Top 10™ Competition (2008-09).
Management Team
Don Stewart, PhD President & CEO
Ron Hosking, CA Chief Financial Officer
Chris Hall, PhD Chief Scientific Officer
Board of Directors
Mark Goldberg, PhD (Chair) Founder & Director R&D
GlobalTox, a division of MTE Consultants Inc.
Jim Rae CEO, Viron Therapeutics
Warren Whitehead former CFO, Arius Research
Chris Hall, PhD CSO, PlantForm Corp.
Don Stewart, PhD President & CEO, PlantForm Corp.