Jean-François Gélinas

About

Experience

• Director of Operations at RNA Technologies and Therapeutics
  Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

• C3i (Permanent Full-time · 5 yrs 5 mos)
  • Director - Innovation & Strategic Projects
    Jan 2025 - Dec 2025 · 1 yr

    Coordination of strategic interdepartmental projects. Project management for GMP-compliant construction and renovation projects. Implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. Strategic partnership development with host institution. Obtaining and reporting on grants from various funding agencies.

  • Director - Technical Operations & Innovation
    Jan 2024 - Jan 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Coordination of shutdown activities minimising manufacturing downtime. Project management for GMP-compliant construction and renovation projects. Supervision of R&D project.

  • Associate Director - Biotherapeutics & Vectors (cGMP viral vector manufacture)
    Jun 2022 - Dec 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

    Management of a team establishing a viral vector production facility within the active cGMP-compliant cell therapy manufacturing facility of our partner institution. Responsible for project definition, obtaining funding, coordinating acquisitions, resourcing, budgeting, documentation creation and review, milestone setting and project execution.

• Adjunct Professor at Université de Montréal
  Jun 2020 - Dec 2025 · 5 yrs 7 mos

  Département de médecine et spécialités médicales de la Faculté de médecine de l'Université de Montréal

• CIUSSS de l'Est-de-l'Île-de-Montréal (9 mos)
  • Professional Research Assistant (cGMP Viral Vector Production)
    Apr 2020 - Jul 2020 · 4 mos

  • Postdoctoral Fellow (cGMP Viral Vector Production)
    Nov 2019 - Mar 2020 · 5 mos

• Postdoctoral Researcher (Vaccine Production Process Development) at McGill University
  Jul 2017 - Nov 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  Prof Amine Kamen, Department of Bioengineering NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2018-2020)