Dr Mario Thomas has been appointed network manager of the Centre for Commercialization of Research, a national Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research (CECR) managed by the Ontario Centres of Excellence. Thomas has had a long and varied career in R&D and financing, beginning with Johnson & Johnson Inc . He also held senior positions at Burroughs Wellcome Inc, BioChem Pharma, TerraGen Discovery Inc and most recently T2C2/Bio Venture Capital. Thomas has a PhD in chemistry and BSc from Laval Univ….