HILL AND KNOWLTON DELIVERS LIFE SCIENCES PRACTICE
By Adnews Staff
Toronto-based Hill and Knowlton Canada Limited has launched a new life sciences communications and consulting practice. Theresa McCurry, who will head the practice at the agency's Vancouver office as vice president, said there has been a huge growth in the number of biotech companies as well as the number of biotech products being launched in Canada and it made sense for Hill and Knowlton to expand its services to serve this industry. The new practice will offer Web-based financial and investor relations services and biopharmaceutical marketing communications. McCurry, who joined H&K in mid-March from the B.C. Biotechnology Alliance, where she was executive director, said the agency has begun setting up teams in its Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver offices because these are the fastest growing biotech regions in Canada.