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Dr. Boivin is Cardiome's Vice President of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Manufacturing. Dr. Boivin has over 18 years of Pharmaceutical Development experience in both multi-national and start-up pharmaceutical operations. Early in her career, Dr. Boivin was a founding member of the Glaxo Canada (Now GSK) Pharmaceutical Development organization and was instrumental in growing the operation into a world-class R&D facility. While at GSK, Dr. Boivin’s work involved progression of development programmes in a wide range of areas including treatments for oncology related emesis, HIV, malaria, ulcers, and asthma. Following 11 years with Glaxo, Dr. Boivin assumed the responsibility of Business Manager, Life Sciences at Agilent Technologies Inc. (formerly Hewlett Packard) where she led a sales, service, and marketing operation in Central and Western Canada. More recently, she was Principal of Level 10 BioSciences Ltd., a privately held consulting company on the West Coast., and just prior to joining Cardiome, was Vice President, Pharmaceutical Development at Oncogenex Technologies in Vancouver. Her experience spans Analytical Development, Pharmaceutical Development, CMC Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance, Manufacturing and Business Development. Dr. Boivin holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Alberta and a BSc. from Simon Fraser University.
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