{"id":122877,"date":"2023-03-31T18:04:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T22:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wekh.ca\/?post_type=entrepreneurs&#038;p=122877"},"modified":"2026-02-25T12:01:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:01:45","slug":"julia-levy","status":"publish","type":"entrepreneurs","link":"https:\/\/wekh.ca\/fr\/entrepreneurs\/julia-levy\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Levy"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><p role=\"heading\">Julia Levy est une dirigeante talentueuse et accomplie du secteur des biotechnologies qui a obtenu des r&eacute;sultats remarquables dans le domaine du d&eacute;veloppement pharmaceutique. Elle a fond&eacute; Novelion Therapeutics et a occup&eacute; plusieurs postes de haute direction chez QLT Inc., y compris comme conseill&egrave;re scientifique en chef, vice-pr&eacute;sidente, pr&eacute;sidente et directrice g&eacute;n&eacute;rale, et administratrice. Sous son impulsion, QLT enregistre une forte croissance et s&rsquo;illustre en franchissant des &eacute;tapes d&eacute;terminantes, comme l&rsquo;obtention de l&rsquo;approbation du Secr&eacute;tariat am&eacute;ricain aux produits alimentaires et pharmaceutiques (FDA) pour l&rsquo;utilisation de la VisudyneMD dans le traitement de la d&eacute;g&eacute;n&eacute;rescence maculaire li&eacute;e &agrave; l&rsquo;&acirc;ge. Julia Levy poss&egrave;de un doctorat en immunologie de l&rsquo;Universit&eacute; de Londres et est titulaire d&rsquo;une chaire de recherche industrielle au sein du d&eacute;partement de microbiologie de l&rsquo;Universit&eacute; de la Colombie-Britannique. Elle est membre de la Soci&eacute;t&eacute; royale du Canada et a occup&eacute; les fonctions de pr&eacute;sidente de la Canadian Federation of Biological Sciences. Elle a re&ccedil;u de nombreuses r&eacute;compenses et distinctions, notamment le titre d&rsquo;Officier de l&rsquo;Ordre du Canada, le prix Female Entrepreneur of the Year for International Business, le prix Pacific Canada Entrepreneur of the Year, et le prix Future of Vision Award, d&eacute;cern&eacute; par Vaincre la c&eacute;cit&eacute; Canada<\/p><p role=\"heading\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"company-size":[6598],"diversity-category":[],"industry":[6455],"location-province":[6601],"post-status":[],"class_list":["post-122877","entrepreneurs","type-entrepreneurs","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","company-size-251-a-500","industry-biopharma","location-province-colombie-britannique"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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