We like to discuss all things Life Sciences related. We are BioTalent social, we host networking and knowledge-building events, webinars and podcasts within the Life Sciences sector. If you're looking for a way to stay up to date in the pharmaceutical world then have a listen to our podcast series. The series brings together market-leading experts. We cover topics from diversity to innovation giving you up to date industry insight and unmissable lively debates. We can help you to achieve a c ...
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Accessing (and keeping) talent in today’s biotechnology sector isn’t easy. There’s no question that biotech, life sciences, and the medical field in general experienced massive acceleration since March 2020. More treatments have been approved, biotech investment reached record heights, and thousands of new companies entered the landscape, heralding unprecedented growth in just about every aspect of the sector – bio health, bioenergy, bio-industrial, and agri-bio.In this podcast, Rob Henderso ...
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Podcast Episode 23 - Journey into Leadership: A conversation with Sarah Mardle
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In the latest instalment of the BioTalent Social podcast, our very own Steven Fuller, Global Community Manager of Race In Stem, sat down with Sarah Mardle to talk leadership, gender bias, the evolution of the life sciences industry and creating lasting change. “I definitely wanted to be a scientist and I was able to do two degrees, one in pharmacol…
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Podcast 22 - Exploring Quality Leadership and Systems with Heather Wells
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Our BioTalent Social podcast is for professionals in the life sciences industry, who can have access to wide-ranging discussions that are led by market-leading experts, who offer sharp, focused insights on current affairs within the Life Sciences sector. In this conversation, Steven Fuller had the pleasure of engaging with Heather Wells, a Senior D…
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Commercializing the Academic Research – and Managing Substantial Growth
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Applied Pharmaceutical Innovation (API) was launched to solve a big challenge. Commercialization within the life sciences. There’s a general lack of understanding of the technical and scientific capacity needed for a life sciences company to commercialize in Canada. API sought to fix that. Part incubator, part R&D, API helps companies scale up here…
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Attitude is More Important Than Technical Skills
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Bishop Water Technologies is rapidly growing in Canada. Dedicated to the development of easy-to-use, low energy solutions for solids management, it’s a team that has worked for two decades to develop and optimize affordable technologies. So it may be surprising to hear CEO Kevin Bossy say technical skills have to take a back seat compared to attitu…
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Disruption to Make the World Better
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The entrepreneurial mindset was introduced early to Ronen Benin by his parents. They had moved to Canada with degrees that weren’t recognized. So they taught him, if you’re going to build something, make sure you are always build something for yourself too. He never forgot that. Today Ronen is the founder and CEO of a number of companies now such a…
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The Surging Growth of Life Sciences in BC
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Life Sciences BC CEO Wendy Hurlburt remembers the surge started with a spirit of collaboration just as COVID was beginning to impact the world. Then came the talent crunch that forced many members in BC to find creative ways to keep their operations open. The Metro-Vancouver bio economy has some 1,300 organizations which collectively employ about 1…
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Forward-Thinking. Forward-Acting. BIOVECTRA
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PEI has become somewhat of a Mecca for the Bio Tech industry in Canada. And the biggest one is BIOVECTRA. It’s a company adding new team members seemingly every day having blossomed to over 600 in both PEI and Nova Scotia (and most of that growth during a global pandemic). For two consecutive years the company has been named one of Canada’s Top 100…
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Brunel Shares its Recruitment and Diversity Strategies
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If your job involves recruitment of talent, you know the name Brunel. In this episode Angelina Brathwaite, a Senior Client Partner with global network Brunel, shares what their offices are seeing when it comes to recruitment of talent in the life sciences. Is it better to have niche skills right now or a higher education? Are employees being realis…
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The Powerful Benefits of Diversity
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Anessa is a software company specializing in biogas projects including anaerobic digestions. It’s headquartered in New Brunswick. They’re actively trying to recruit from the biogas side but in Atlantic Canada that’s a challenge. One thing Anessa did right away was adopt the principles of diversity and inclusion into their recruitment practices. Co-…
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Podcast 21 - My Race in Life Sciences: The Power of Being Yourself with Dipesh Mistry-Dhillon
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‘You’re going to go through some hard times, but you’re going come out the other side.’ This episode of My Race in Science delves into the risks of ignoring changing terminology, the importance of mutual respect, and the necessity of representation at every level of the life sciences industry. We discussed the pitfalls and the positives experienced…
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The Science of Talent Podcast Trailer
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Podcast 20 - My Race in Life Sciences: Exploring Meaningful Allyship with Allison Jack
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‘Standing out in some way is part of the journey of life.’ In this episode of My Race in Science, we explored the infinite value of self-belief, mentoring, and meaningful allyship in the fight against discrimination in the life sciences space. From sharing stories to speaking up for others – you don’t need to have experienced first-hand discriminat…
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Clean Slate UV’s Approach to Solving Two Staffing Issues – Attraction + Diversification
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One of the founders of Clean Slate UV is a self-professed “Germaphobe.” It’s that kind of awareness that led to a company that created patented UV technology and intelligent software to solve, among other problems: Smartphones are the third hand we never wash! Clean Slate leverages the power of UV-C light to inactivate some of the most resilient ba…
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Scientific (and Talent) Discoveries at Applied Biological Materials Inc.
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There’s a song by Drake that goes “Started from the bottom – now we’re here.” That could be Ryan Saranchuk’s career theme song at Applied Biological Materials. In this episode Ryan shares ABM’s approach to recruiting and retaining talent for the successful company. And he’s a poster board for the potential within the company having started as a co-…
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Growing the Digital Ag Eco-System AND Leaving No One Behind
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Episode two of The Science of Talent focuses on the Agri-Bio subsector with Jacqueline Keena of EMILI. The Enterprise Machine Intelligence and Learning Initiative is dedicated to accelerating the adoption of the digital agriculture eco system in Manitoba and across the prairies. It was created to prepare and empower the Manitoba economy to leverage…
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Episode 19 - The Next Generation of Cell & Gene Therapies
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Our BioTalent Social community came together for an informative discussion on ‘The Next Generation of Cell & Gene Therapies,’ hosted by our very own James Hume. The discussion touched on a multitude of topical themes and insights, including: The role of tech-transfer offices in turning early-stage interventions into products Current challenges and …
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Biotechnology – One Part Science, Two Parts Human Resources
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Bio Tech companies are committed to the business of science. It’s what we do every day. But there’s another commitment they’re engrossed in… attracting and retaining talented people. It’s an industry undergoing dramatic change with forecasts indicating the number of jobs will soon outnumber candidates by a ratio of four. So, what are Biotech leader…
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Episode 17 - The Cultivated Meat Industry and LGBTQIA+ in Biotech with Mirasbek Kuterbekov
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In our most recent podcast, we were invited to listen to a conversation between Jogesh Bowry, Recruitment Consultant here at BioTalent, and Mirasbek Kuterbekov, Senior Scientist at Hoxton Farms where he combines his passion for animal welfare with his expertise in tissue engineering to create the most delicious slaughter-free animal fat. Mirasbek i…
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Episode 18 - Clinical in Switzerland: Start-up Bio vs. Pharma
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Take a listen to our latest episode, 'Clinical in Switzerland: Start up Bio vs. Pharma'. Please note this panel discussion is a pre-recorded webinar. We felt the content was so impactful, we decided to share it with our podcast listeners. Led by Indya Lofthouse-Smith, the discussion delved into an array of topics and insights, which included: From …
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Episode 16 - Tackling the Gender Imbalance in Engineering with Lorraine Liu
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Meet our next confirmed speaker, Lorraine Liu. Lorraine is the Global Competency Leader of Project Control Management and at the same time Manager of 13 Project Controls globally at DSM. She is a CBC (China burn Canadian) and passionate about how things work since she was a kid, which might be an indication of her future career in the Engineering f…
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Episode 15 - Neurodiversity in Life Sciences with Christy Mazzarisi
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Head of Quality (innovative and accomplished Quality Systems Professional) with a broad background in Pharmaceutical and Laboratory sciences (specializing in business development) with R&D and commercial manufacturing (sterile and non-sterile) experience with over 15 years of industry practice. Overall background and specialities include GMP & GLP,…
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Episode 14 - Developing a Career in Quality within Life Sciences with Katie Terry, Greg Whitehead and Jared Auclair
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Quality is so important within the Life Sciences; however, identifying similarities and differences which are all very much organically grown across pharma, biotech, Medical Devices and CROs and the interactions between them across different GxPs stands for interesting discussions. Come together with our BioTalent Social community and join a panel …
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Episode 13 - The Journey of a HealthTech Start-up with Dr Hemmel Amrania
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Dr. Hemmel Amrania YC21 is the founder of Digistain. A platform cancer diagnostics technology that promises to eliminate the overuse of cytotoxic chemotherapy. He is a world-leading expert in infrared imaging. He holds the degrees of MSc and PhD in Physics from SupOptique, Paris, and Imperial College London, where his work as a Post Doctorate Resea…
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Episode 11 - Project Leadership during a pandemic – building a state of the art facility in uncertain times with Andreas Zander
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In our most recent podcast, we were invited to listen to a conversation between Taylor Whelpton, Head of Global Engineering here at BioTalent, and Andreas Zander, an Engineering Project Director who has worked across the world on different projects, most recently, building a new, state of the art biologics manufacturing facility, for Boehringer Ing…
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Episode 10 - My Race in Life Sciences: Is your voice heard as a Black female in industry? with Corryn Gardiner
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Corryn Gardiner is a Director of her own Quality Assurance Consultancy who works with pharmaceutical companies to help with the set-up and/or ongoing maintenance and responsibilities relating to the Pharmaceutical Quality System and maintaining licences. After spending over 10 years working in Quality Assurance Corryn believes and strives for quali…
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Episode 9 - Stem Cells & Drug Discovery with Dr. Matthias Steger
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Dr. Matthias Steger is co-Founder and CEO of Endogena Therapeutics, a biotech company with a novel drug discovery concept based on selective regulation of endogenous stem cells to repair and regenerate organs and tissues. Matthias worked for 22 years in the pharmaceutical-biotech industry. Prior to Endogena, he worked as Global Head of Research & T…
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Episode 8 - My Race in Life Sciences: Yogesh Krishan Davé
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Yogesh’s career in pharma spans over 38 years and he has operated his own UK registered limited company for the past 12 years. All his formal education has all been in the United Kingdom and he is proud to be a British Citizen. Yogesh is also proud of his heritage and ancestorial roots in India and he has tried to integrate the best of both culture…
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Episode 7 - Digital Solutions in Healthcare with Baris Ersezer
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Baris was always fascinated by technology and curious about how things were built. He started coding when he was a teenager and made this passion his job. His appetite for new challenges made him travel and work in different countries and companies. He created his own company to taste entrepreneurship and learned a lot from these diverse experience…
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Episode 4 - Pandemic Challenges & Agile Processes in Regulatory Affairs with Florin Muraru
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With a career spanning over two decades in the Pharma industry Florin Muraru is a Regulatory Affairs executive with exposure to all steps of the registration process for pharmaceutical products, including CTAs, CP, MRP, and national submission. With an impressive strong regulatory expertise on drug development has vast experience in regulatory, cum…
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Episode 5 - People, Equal Representation and How to Overcome Discrimination with Alexander Doyle
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Our new Diversity in Life Sciences Series. A trained Scientist with a passion for the people, Alex developed a strong interest in healthcare through working in the industry at Boehringer Ingelheim and Novartis and used his commercial acumen to transition from research and development into pharmaceutical recruitment consulting. Customer focus and in…
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Episode 3 - Leading with Empathy with Michael Potts
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This is episode three and we are joined with Michael Potts an Experienced Manufacturing and Operations Director. Michael sees himself as an entrepreneur, with over 20 years’ experience in Pharmaceutical operations. He enjoys leading people, teams, departments and organisations to deliver excellence for the organisation and also for the individuals.…
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Episode 1 - AI/Machine Learning in Pharmaceutical with Sion Wyn
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During this episode, we sat down with Sion Wyn an expert and pioneer in computer system validation, compliance and international regulations within the Life Sciences sector. During the episode, we discussed compliance requirements, the evolution of data integrity, ethical challenges and potential risks of use of systems for public health, product q…
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Episode 2 - Each for Equal Special for International Women's Day with Sanne Marie
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To celebrate International Women’s Day 2020, we sat down with Sanne Marie Løkke Olsen. Sanne is a Business Unit Leader at Thermo Fisher Scientific. Sanne grew up a mother who worked in pharmaceutical and met one of her inspirational friends – who researched molecules to fight cancer and discover new cures for diseases, which ignited her passion and…
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