Michael May

Dr. Michael May completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Toronto in 1998 as an NSERC Scholar and was awarded the Martin Walmsley Fellowship for Technological Entrepreneurship.

He is President and Chief Executive Officer of CCRM. Prior to CCRM, Michael was the President and co-founder of Rimon Therapeutics Ltd., a Toronto-based tissue engineering company developing novel medical polymers that possess drug-like activity.

Michael sits on a number of boards and advisory committees including the Centre for the Commercialization of Antibodies and Biologics (CCAB); the Entrepreneurship Leadership Council at the University of Toronto; the TO Health! Human & Science Steering Committee; the Cell and Gene Therapy Insights, Editorial Advisory Board; Member Commercialization Committee of the International Society for Cell Therapy (ISCT); and the Executive Committee, Alliance for Regenerative Medicine (ARM). He is the Chairman of the start-up company ExCellThera Ltd.