Elizabeth Douville

Life sciences executive

📍 Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area, Canada🔄 Updated October 2026💼 11 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
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11
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Board Member
Jan 2024
Nous sommes une organisation indépendante à but non lucratif créée pour mettre en œuvre le Centre de production de produits biologiques. Sur la base d’un mandat d’intérêt public, nous travaillons à mieux préparer le pays à de futures pandémies, à soutenir des projets d’intérêt public et à promouvoir la croissance de l’industrie canadienne des sciences de la vie. We are an independent not-for-profit corporation set up to operate the Biologics Manufacturing Centre. Based on a public-good mandate, our focus is pandemic preparedness, public-interest project support, and the overall growth of Canada’s life sciences industry.
Board Observer
Aug 2018
Mperia Therapeutics is the CD36 Therapeutics Development Company. Lead candidates applied to macrophage-driven inflammation via CD36 receptor immuno-metabolism mediation. Showing clear efficacy in pre-clinical models for dry age-related macular degeneration (dry AMD), atherosclerosis and NASH.
Board Observer
Jul 2018
Located in Montreal, Inversago Pharma is a privately-owned Canadian biotech company at clinical-stage, specialized in the development of new therapies focusing on CB1 blockade, based on first-in-class, peripherally-acting, CB1 inverse agonists. The Company aims to provide new treatment options that improve the lives of patients affected by metabolic conditions such as Diabetic Kidney Disease (DKD), including Diabetic Nephropathy, Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes (T1D / T2D), Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH), complications of obesity, hypertriglyceridemia (HTG), as well as fibrotic indications such as Progressive Fibrosis – Interstitial Lung Disease (PF-ILD), including Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF).
Board Observer
Mar 2018
SemaThera is a spin-off company from AmorChem Fund 1, which focuses on a novel target, semaphorin 3A (SEMA3A). The Company is currently developing bispecific SEMA3A / VEGF inhibitors (traps) to prevent vascular leakage and damper the inflammation in diabetic macular edema (DME). The technology targets the 30% DME patients who are poor responders to current anti-VEGF therapies.
Board Member
Jan 2017
SemaThera is a spin-off company from AmorChem Fund 1, which focuses on a novel target, semaphorin 3A (SEMA3A). The Company is currently developing bispecific SEMA3A / VEGF inhibitors (traps) to prevent vascular leakage and damper the inflammation in diabetic macular edema (DME). The technology targets the 30% DME patients who are poor responders to current anti-VEGF therapies.
Board Member
Jan 2017
Corbin Therapeutics is a spin-off company from AmorChem Fund 1, developing a sophisticated in-vivo genome-wide screening platform in mice undergoing experimental neuro-inflammation, from the laboratory of Dr Philippe Gros, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, leading to a novel anti-inflammatory target in the deubiquitinylation (DUB) family of enzymes, more particularly USP15.
Board Member
Apr 2016
Mperia Therapeutics is the CD36 Therapeutics Development Company. Lead candidates applied to macrophage-driven inflammation via CD36 receptor immuno-metabolism mediation. Showing clear efficacy in pre-clinical models for dry age-related macular degeneration (dry AMD), atherosclerosis and NASH.
Board Member
Jan 2015
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2024
Board Member
Jan 2024
Nous sommes une organisation indépendante à but non lucratif créée pour mettre en œuvre le Centre de production de produits biologiques. Sur la base d’un mandat d’intérêt public, nous travaillons à mieux préparer le pays à de futures pandémies, à soutenir des projets d’intérêt public et à promouvoir la croissance de l’industrie canadienne des sciences de la vie. We are an independent not-for-profit corporation set up to operate the Biologics Manufacturing Centre. Based on a public-good mandate, our focus is pandemic preparedness, public-interest project support, and the overall growth of Canada’s life sciences industry.
2018
Board Observer
Aug 2018
Mperia Therapeutics is the CD36 Therapeutics Development Company. Lead candidates applied to macrophage-driven inflammation via CD36 receptor immuno-metabolism mediation. Showing clear efficacy in pre-clinical models for dry age-related macular degeneration (dry AMD), atherosclerosis and NASH.
Board Observer
Jul 2018
Located in Montreal, Inversago Pharma is a privately-owned Canadian biotech company at clinical-stage, specialized in the development of new therapies focusing on CB1 blockade, based on first-in-class, peripherally-acting, CB1 inverse agonists. The Company aims to provide new treatment options that improve the lives of patients affected by metabolic conditions such as Diabetic Kidney Disease (DKD), including Diabetic Nephropathy, Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes (T1D / T2D), Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH), complications of obesity, hypertriglyceridemia (HTG), as well as fibrotic indications such as Progressive Fibrosis – Interstitial Lung Disease (PF-ILD), including Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF).
FairHaven Pharma
Board Member
May 2018
Board Observer
Mar 2018
SemaThera is a spin-off company from AmorChem Fund 1, which focuses on a novel target, semaphorin 3A (SEMA3A). The Company is currently developing bispecific SEMA3A / VEGF inhibitors (traps) to prevent vascular leakage and damper the inflammation in diabetic macular edema (DME). The technology targets the 30% DME patients who are poor responders to current anti-VEGF therapies.
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