Dr. Allen Eaves is a leukemia specialist and visionary business leader in British Columbia.

Allen founded the Terry Fox Laboratory and was its director for 25 years, building the laboratory into an internationally recognized research centre known for being an incubator of new ideas such as the regulation of growth and maturation of blood-forming stem cells.

As head of hematology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver General Hospital and the BC Cancer Agency for 18 years, he launched one of the finest bone marrow transplant programs in the world which, by the early 1990s, had treated more than 1,500 patients. He is UBC Professor Emeritus of hematology.

Allen is the founder and owner of Vancouver’s STEMCELL Technologies Inc., now the largest biotechnology company in Canada with more than 800 employees. He is credited with creating jobs in industry for young people who love science and with developing innovative products for the emerging industry that will lead to future cell therapies for cancer and other serious diseases. STEMCELL sells 2,500 products globally to thousands of academic and industry researchers.

Allen has published more than 200 papers in leading peer-review scientific journals, has served on many boards, and has won many scientific awards.