Karen Meerovitch

Karen Meerovitch has over 20 years of experience in drug discovery and development in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. At Mimetogen, Dr. Meerovitch started as the Company’s Senior Scientist and now serves as Vice President, overseeing all CMC, non-clinical, clinical and regulatory development activities of tavilermide.

Prior to joining Mimetogen, she was Group Leader for all preclinical activities at Avance Pharma (Laval, Quebec). Prior to that she was Senior Scientist at Shire Biochem (Laval, Quebec), where she was a key contributor in the discovery and research of several projects in oncology drug discovery programs in the area of angiogenesis, apoptosis, and vascular targeting. Dr. Meerovitch holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor at McGill University in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. She is author or co-author of over 20 publications and reviews.

Dr. Meerovitch holds a B.Sc. and PhD. from McGill University and an M.Sc. from the University of Alberta, all in Biochemistry. She also completed her post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Medicine at McGill University.