Dr. Heale is Associate Director of the University-Industry Liaison Office (UILO) at The University of British Columbia. He oversees operations associated with UBC’s Affiliated Hospitals, work which ranges from sponsored research and clinical trials to technology transfer. Dr. Heale is involved in external relations with UBC-affiliated agencies such as the Centre for Drug Research and Development, Canadian Institutes for Health Research, and the Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research. He is currently assisting in the creation of a number of spin-off companies based on UBC research.
Dr. Heale graduated from UBC in 1997 with a doctorate from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and subsequently worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and Research Associate. He then received an MBA from Simon Fraser University in 2001 while working as Manager of Corporate Development at a start-up biotech company. In late 2001, Dr. Heale joined the UILO in the Technology Transfer Group. Following a role as Technology Transfer Manager for the Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of BC, Dr. Heale took on the role of Associate Director in April 2004.
Dr. Heale is a current member of the Alliance for Commercialization of Canadian Technology (ACCT), the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), and Life Sciences BC (formerly BC Biotech). He sits on the CIHR Proof-of-Principle Committee, the Prionet Canada Research Management Committee, and is an observer on the boards of Sirius Genomics Inc. and Boreal Genomics Inc.
