Christine Allen

Christine Allen is a Canadian professor and the first associate vice-president and vice-provost for strategic initiatives at the University of Toronto. She served formerly as interim dean of the university's Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy. She is co-founder of Nanovista, a company focused on imaging of tumors. She also works as the associate editor of Molecular Pharmaceutics.

Education and career Allen earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biochemistry from the University of Ottawa and a PhD in chemistry from McGill University. She completed a post doc in the Department of Advanced Therapeutics at the BC Cancer Agency.

Career Prior to joining the University of Toronto in 2002 she worked as a scientist and assistant directors of materials research at Celator Pharmaceuticals. She has developed several block-co-polymers, particularly those with PEG, for delivery of cancer chemotherapeutics. 2014 Gattefossé Canada/CSPS Award in Lipid-Based Drug Delivery 2011 CRS/Elsevier Journal of Controlled Release Jorge Heller Award for Outstanding Paper Innovation Award - Ontario Research and Commercialization Program, 2008 Career Award - Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)/Rx&D, 2004-2009 New Investigator Research Award - Association of Faculties of Pharmacy of Canada (AFPC)/AstraZeneca, 2006 Early Career Award - Canadian Society for Pharmaceuticals Sciences (CSPS)/GlaxoSmithKline, 2006