Life Science Consulting Clients

Mary is a delight. She goes above and beyond the call of duty in helping to cultivate meaningful professional connections between people in the San Diego biotechnology sector and the individuals who are trying to tap into that network. I'm looking forward to working with her again!

Becky Cyr

Lucky, lucky me for having met Mary! She recently built me a wonderful web site (http://goldenwriting.com) after years of my searching for help with this project. And, her stream of brilliant advice based on her social media savvy directly led to my getting a new client within a week of the site's launch. Hire this woman and watch your business turn around!

Caron Golden

Mary has the skills to quickly familiarize herself with a new software domain and contribute effectively in areas of product management, product marketing, and technical writing. Mary is one of the few people that has an intimate knowledge and real-life experience with all areas of computational drug discovery.

Ton van Daelen

Mary is a bio-business pro in every sense. She sees opportunities. She hears your point of view. She has good taste in design and marketing. She has a touch with market analysis and planning. Most of all, she has a real feel for strategies that can maximize revenue. We enjoy collaborating with Mary on branding, especially for biotech start-up companies and growth products.

Mark Stinson

As the Business Development Director, Mary was instrumental in relaying our requests and concerns and putting together a clearly written and precise contract to govern the work to be performed for us at Active Sight. Mary would not promise anything that could not be deliver by either her or Active Sight and kept a lid on expectations. I would use her again.

Brian McKeever

Mary posseses both a strong biotech/phama background and a pro-active personality. This great mix is evident in the success of the FBLD2008 meeting and other key projects during her tenure at ActiveSight. She always has ideas and understands the 'bigger picture' of how those ideas impact the design or company needs. Finally, she's an absolutely great person with all the traits one would want of someone when working on a project together: dependable, responsive, good communicator, and [...]

Angela Criswell

I had the pleasure of working with Dr. Canady at Geneformatics from October, 2000 until April, 2002. She is a highly skilled scientist well versed in a number of disciplines. In addition, we have been in touch over the years and she has expanded her experience, successfully fulfilling marketing roles within the biotech industry. I highly recommend Dr. Canady to any young biotech company in need of consulting services in marketing. On a personal note, Dr. Canady was wonderful to work [...]

Michael Bayewitch

As the organiser of FBLD2008, a major drug-discovery conference, Mary was a pleasure to deal with. Her input to the speakers and session chairs was timely and helpful and she generated a cooperative approach from a diverse set of participants. Mary knows her business and has a direct, straightforward and open approach to it.

Glyn Williams

Mary led the development effort of creating the OligoPerfect(TM) web-based application at Invitrogen. Mary's primary role and voice was for the business, but she also did an excellent job of immersing herself in understanding the programming technology being used. This enabled her to more effectively communicate the business needs to the programmers involved on the project. In short, she served the critical gap of bridging the Molecular Biology technology with the Information Technology. [...]

Reid Hankins

Mary was very knowledgeable about her product lines, from both a scientific and a marketing and business development perspective. Easy to work with, responsible, reliable, Mary could focus on important details while always keeping the big picture in mind. I greatly enjoyed being her colleague.

Kafryn Lieder

Mary Canady is a person with high work ethics, always efficiently completing each task with the utmost attention to detail. I worked with Mary at a fast growing company in a very competitive field and this required each of us to work closely as a team every day. I was always impressed with the level of respect that Mary showed to everyone around her; she excelled at her work, both individually and as a member of our team. I would love to work with Mary again should that opportunity [...]

Stacy Howerton

Mary did a great job juggling contracts, mediating business discussions, and moving us into innovative new business areas. She was a friendly, accessible, professional and a pleasure to work with.

Les Tari

“Mary was a detail oriented person who did an amazing job organizing and executing whatever project she was involved in. She organized a fragment-based drug discovery conference, FBLD2008, with which I was involved. The conference was a large, multinational event, and she handled superbly to make it a great success. She is very easy to work with, and she is very diligent with her work. We worked together on many projects and due to her clever ideas, strong work ethic , [...]

Vandana Sridhar

As a speaker and sponsor of the Fragment Based Lead Discovery conference held in San Diego in February of 2008, I found Mary (who organized the conference) to be professional, knowledgeable and responsible. In short, she's a good person to do business with.

Gregg Siegal

Mary organized a fragment-based drug discovery conference, FBLD2008, with which I was involved. The conference was a large, multinational event, and she handled the logistics superbly to make it a great success - truly one of the best conferences I have attended.

Daniel Erlanson

Worked with Mary at GeneFormatics, where she was part of the Genome Analysis group that leveraged the tools that my group and engineering developed. She was always diligent in her work, not shy about making a contribution and responsible for a number of key projects.

Deepak Singh

Mary was always interested in all aspects of the work, especially new technology and trying alternative approaches in a traditional environment. She did an excellent job of identifying the intent of each marketing piece and followed it through to completion. Product management in biotech is an interesting combination of marketing and science that requires both right- and left-brain activities, and Mary's creativity and technical acumen always came through.

Edna M. Kunkel

I directly worked with Dr. Mary Canady on a variety of marketing related projects. As a consummate professional, she instigated and organized the scope and scale of the activities that, in all cases, has outcomes beyond the expectation of corporate management. Based on these very positive experiences, I recommend Mary without reservation and in the highest terms. Her marketing prowess, coupled with a detailed knowledge of pharma/biotech, makes Mary an invaluable asset to any project or [...]

Robert Tisdale

Mary is an exceptional business development professional. She was instrumental in formulating a research contract that worked for both of our companies. I admired her prompt communication and responsiveness to adapt the plan to our project needs and timelines.

Vivek Sharma

Mary is a great person to work with. In her projects with Beactica she has combined her in-depth knowledge of science with her expertise in business development to deliver results-driven strategies for the US market.

Per Källblad

I know Mary from her organisation of the FBLD2008 conference in February 2008. The meeting was a landmark for the field and superbly organised, both scientifically and logistically - a real challenge as the event was massively over-subscribed.

Rod Hubbard

Mary organized a drug discovery conference in a very professional and engaged manner. It became a big success.

Wolfgang Jahnke

Mary is efficient, organized, and amazingly creative. She combines her vast scientific knowledge with great marketing sense to come up with one great idea after another.

Keith Burdick

Mary was a detail oriented person who did an amazing job organizing and executing whatever project she was involved in.

Paul Swepston

Mary is very easy to work with, clients like interacting with her, and she is very diligent with her work. We worked together on special projects and due to her clever ideas, strong work ethic, and product knowledge, we had great success! I would recommend choosing Mary as a business partner whenever you really need to get something done right and enjoy the work while doing it!

Kelli Roinick Webb

Mary was indeed a pleasure to work with. She always had a fun attitude while maintaining her professionalism. She was very well organized and communicated regularly while working with EMD's campaign on Biocompare. I wish all the vendors that I work with had such great representatives as Mary.

Heather Gothot

Mary is a very dedicated worker. She is detailed-oriented and an excellent marketer. She not only has a lot of experience, but she also knows how to work well with others. She has initiative and follows-through on each and every project. I highly recommend her and I honestly hope I can work with her again.

Devora Rossi

I am a former co-worker of Mary’s at GeneFormatics. We worked together for three years and have kept in close touch for another three. While working together for this biotech startup company, Mary achieved her success with her thorough knowledge of the science mixed with a keen sense of all other aspects of the business. Her flexibility is where she really excelled. She could talk about the technical details of a problem, then turn right around and communicate with the business [...]

Craig Kim

Mary is a highly efficient, friendly and professional manager who gets things done. It was a pleasure to work with her.

Frauke Rininsland

Mary was a very thorough and knowledgeable product manager and always a pleasure to work with. She presented an expansive knowledge of her product line, business unit, and the process to get things done! Mary was very enthusiastic about innovating on several web-based projects we worked on. All of which eventually launched successfully and to high customer reception.

Mike Hill