{"id":4976,"date":"2020-12-08T11:48:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T16:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/?post_type=dsab&p=4976"},"modified":"2023-03-14T17:04:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T21:04:11","slug":"peter-pekos","status":"publish","type":"dsab","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/dsab\/peter-pekos\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Pekos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pekos is CEO of Dalton Pharma Services<\/a>, which he co-founded in 1986. He has managed all phases of its growth into a leading supplier of contract drug development and manufacturing services to the global pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A veteran business founder and director, with broad experience as a board member of public and private companies, Pekos was founding Chairman of ventureLAB<\/a>, a regional innovation Center located at IBM\u2019s York Region campus. VentureLAB guides government program delivery to support the innovation ecosystem for biotechnology and related industries in southern Ontario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pekos is an active angel investor and has invested in several startups focused on novel cancer therapeutics, orphan diseases, and vaccine technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a York University and University of Toronto alumni and donor, Pekos and his family actively support scholarships at both York and the University of Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-4976","dsab","type-dsab","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nPeter Pekos - Dean's Special Advisory Board - Faculty of Science<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Peter Pekos is an active angel investor and has invested in startups focused on novel cancer therapeutics, orphan diseases, and vaccine technologies.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/dsab\/peter-pekos\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Peter Pekos - Dean's Special Advisory Board - Faculty of Science\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Peter Pekos is an active angel investor and has invested in startups focused on novel cancer therapeutics, orphan diseases, and vaccine technologies.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/dsab\/peter-pekos\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Faculty of Science\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-03-14T21:04:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.yorku.ca\\\/science\\\/dsab\\\/peter-pekos\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.yorku.ca\\\/science\\\/dsab\\\/peter-pekos\\\/\",\"name\":\"Peter Pekos - 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