Brad Thompson

Dr. Thompson, Ph.D., Chairman & CEO of Avamab, and CEO & Co-Founder of Kickshaw Ventures, is an experienced and highly respected biotechnology professional for more than 30 years.He is also an inventor of several patents granted or pending in the viral/ gene therapy area and of the proprietary technology platform assigned to Cellastra. Until recently he served as Director and the Chairman of BIOTECanada, and as Executive Chairman, CEO and President of Oncolytic Biotech Inc. He started his career in biotech as Head of Biotechnology at The Alberta Research Council where he was responsible for GMP manufacturing for biologics as well held a variety of other positions. He served, amongst others, as a Director of Signal Gene, Paladin Labs Inc., Transition Therapeutics and Immunovaccine, Inc., and is a current board member of He is a current Direcor Erad Therapeutics Inc.. Dr Thompson is also a member of the Advisory Board of Lifeboat Foundation Biosciences Inc.He received a B.Sc. from the University of Alberta and a Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology from the University of Western Ontario.