Julia Levy
Microbiology and Immunology
Co-discovered photodynamic anti-cancer and ophthalmology drugs, co-founder of the company QLT Inc. "The most important thing: Never shut off your options. You never know what the next year is going to bring. If you leave your options open, then when something happens you know, ‘That’s where I want to go.’ And you do it! Never box yourself in." |
- Birthdate
- May 15, 1934
- Birthplace
- Singapore
- Residence
- Vancouver, British Columbia
- Family Members
- Father: Guillaume Albert Coppens
- Mother: Dorothy Frances Coppens
- Spouse: Edwin Levy
- Children: two
- Grandchildren: four
- Personality
- Determined, impatient, shy
- Favorite Music
- Vivaldi’s flute concertos
- Other Interests
- Opera, gardening, family and kids, tennis, cooking, writing fiction, a cedar cabin on Sonora Island
- Title
- Executive Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of QLT
- Office
- QLT Inc., Vancouver
- Status
- Semi-retired
- Degrees
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- BA (Experimental Pathology), UBC, 1955
- PhD (Microbiology), University College, London, England, 1958
- Awards
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- Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 1980
- BC Science Council Gold Medal for Medical Research, 1982
- Killam Senior Research Prize, 1986
- Officer of the Order of Canada, 2001
- Foundation Fighting Blindness - Future of Vision Award, 2001
- Women of Distinction - YWCA, 2001
- Friesen-Rygiel Prize, 2002
- Canadian Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2002
- Helen Keller Award for Contributions to Vision, 2003
- Mentor
Her mother, who, in the 1940s, had to support the family while Levy’s father was in a Japanese prisoner of war concentration camp
- Last Updated
- October 2, 2011
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