Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> October 12, 2001
DAVID G.P. ALLAN has been Chief Executive Officer of YM BioSciences Inc.
since April 1998 and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the
corporation since 1994. In 1992 he founded the Knowledge-Based
Industries Group of a Canadian investment banking firm, organized as the
first in Canada involved in financing, analyzing and creating strategic
alliances for life sciences and information technology companies, where
he was Executive Director until 1998. Mr. Allan is a former Governor of
The Toronto Stock Exchange and a former member of the Canadian
Healthcare Licensing Association and the Awards Selection Committee for
the Networks of Centres of Excellence in Canada. Profile
TWST: Can we start out with a history and quick overview of YMBiosciences.
Mr. Allan: YM Biosciences is a cancer company. We develop other people's
products and other people's discoveries and