Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Honoree
2020
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer
AbCellera
Véronique is Co-founder, Chief Operating Officer and member of the Board of Directors at AbCellera. She received her PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering from the University of British Columbia, where she co-invented the high-throughput screening platform that is now part of AbCellera’s core technology. Combining microfluidics, hyper-scale data science, machine learning, bioinformatics, and genomics, AbCellera’s technology identifies new antibody drug candidates from natural immune sources and aims to reduce the time it takes to bring treatments to the clinic. This technology was recently deployed to discover LY-CoV555, the first COVID-specific potential antibody therapy to reach human testing. Véronique and the rapidly growing AbCellera team have been recognized internationally, receiving three Fast Company awards in 2020, including Innovative Team of the Year. A strong advocate of entrepreneurship and science outreach, Véronique was recently recognized in the BMO Celebrating Women’s “Expansion and Growth in Business” category and as a STEM Star Influencer by BCBusiness. She holds a B.A.Sc. in Chemical Engineering
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