{"id":5984,"date":"2015-06-17T20:05:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T02:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadianglycomics.ca\/?p=5984"},"modified":"2019-07-31T14:18:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T20:18:57","slug":"joseph-garcia-wins-biotecanada-gold-leaf-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianglycomics.ca\/fr\/joseph-garcia-wins-biotecanada-gold-leaf-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Garcia wins BIOTECanada Gold Leaf Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joseph Garcia received a Gold Leaf Award for Visionary Leadership from BIOTE Canada.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Congratulations to Joseph Garcia, a member of GlycoNet’s Board of Directors and Partner at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, who received a Gold Leaf Award for Visionary Leadership from BIOTECanada.<\/p>\n

The prestigious Gold Leaf Awards recognize biotechnology excellence and are given annually to recognize both companies and individuals who have made significant contributions to the biotech industry in Canada. The Awards\u2019 importance to the recipients and the industry more broadly has grown significantly over the years.<\/p>\n

Mr.\u00a0Garcia is a partner who practices in the areas of corporate finance and\u00a0mergers & acquisitions at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP.Prior to his career in law, Joseph worked in corporate finance with a national investment bank and in clinical research with a multinational pharmaceutical company.<\/p>\n

He is also\u00a0Director of Genome BC, Director Emeritus of LifeSciences BC and member of the\u00a0BIOTECanada Legal Affairs Advisory Board. Joseph is featured as a leading lawyer in numerous\u00a0publications including The 2014 Lexpert Guide to the Leading US\/Canada Cross-Border Corporate\u00a0Lawyers in Canada<\/em>, The Canadian Legal Lexpert\u00ae Directory 2015<\/em>, The Best Lawyers in Canada 2015,\u00a0The 2011 Lexpert\u00ae\/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, Lexpert\u2019s Special\u00a0Edition on Energy<\/em>, November 2014, and LMG Life Sciences: The Definitive Guide to the Leading Life\u00a0Sciences Firms and Attorneys in North America 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n

Joseph has a BSc (Honours) in pharmacology and human biology from the University of Toronto, a BA in\u00a0economics (health care) from McMaster University and a LLB from the University of British Columbia. He\u00a0was admitted to the British Columbia Bar in 1997.<\/p>\n

More information about the Gold Leaf Awards is available on the BIOTECanada website<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The prestigious Gold Leaf Awards recognize biotechnology excellence and are given annually to recognize both companies and individuals who have made significant contributions to the biotech industry in Canada<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","wpbf-post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t