Leadership & Partners

Experienced finance professional and entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in both capital markets and project development. Worked for more than 10 years as a successful VP Senior Investment Advisor with Canadian brokerages firms BMO Nesbitt Burns and Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management, from which he has accumulated considerable expertise in most aspects of raising and managing capital. Over the last 15 years, Mr. Plouffe was instrumental in the success of various Canadian and International private and public companies in sectors such as biotech, mining and technology.

Dr. Svetlana Selivanova is a radiochemist with more than 20 years of experience in the development of radiopharmaceuticals from early R&D to first-in-human clinical trials. She holds MSc in chemistry and PhD in radiopharmaceutical chemistry and radiobiology. Currently, she is Section Head for Radiochemistry and Medical Applications at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) and adjunct professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Université Laval. Before joining CNL, she held senior positions, both in research and management, at CHU de Quebec-Université Laval, Sherbrooke University Hospital, and at the Center for Radiopharmaceutical Sciences of ETH Zurich (Switzerland).

Dr. Selivanova is an active member of several professional societies, currently serving as Executive Member of the Canadian Association of Radiopharmaceutical Scientists, President of the SNMMI Radiopharmaceutical Sciences Council, and member of the SNMMI Committee on Radiopharmaceuticals. Internationally, she serves as expert-consultant for the International Atomic Energy Agency and the European Research Council. Dr. Selivanova research interests are in the development and translation of novel radiopharmaceuticals from bench to clinics and in nuclear imaging as a tool for studying biochemical pathways in vivo. Among major accomplishments are her contribution to R&D and translation effort for the production of technetium-99m with cyclotron, and implementation of investigational prostate cancer radiopharmaceutical targeting prostate-specific membrane antigen.

Dr. Sarkis Meterissian, is a Professor of Surgery and Oncology (tenured), Director of the Breast Center of the MUHC and Head of the MUHC Breast Tumor Site Group. From 2007-2009 he was President of the Canadian Society of Surgical Oncology and from 2013 to 2015 he was President of Breast Surgery International. He has also served as the Medical Advisory Board co-Chair of the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation since 2012.

Dr. Meterissian is involved in a number of clinical and basic science research projects related to breast cancer. In 1999, along with Dr. Morag Park (the Director of the Goodman Cancer Center), he set-up the McGill Functional Genomics Group which includes an extensive solid and liquid tissue bank for breast cancer. This Tumor Bank has led to a number of landmarks papers including the discovery of the Stromal-derived Protein Predictor (SDPP) published in Nature Medicine in 2008. He presently is involved in clinical research collaborations with the U de M Polytechnique Institute funded by NSERC and translational research projects with Dr. Luke McCaffrey of the Goodman.

He is also on the Scientific Committee of the McPeak-Sirois group representing the MUHC. This is a Clinical Trials Research Group bringing together the large cancer centers in the province. As part of this group he has recently set-up a Breast Cancer Metastases Registry supported by major pharma. This registry will include, in a prospective fashion, clinical data on metastatic breast cancers from across the province and their management.