Name Kelvin Ogilvie Role Politician | ||
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Party Conservative Party of Canada | ||
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Kelvin Kenneth Ogilvie, (born November 6, 1942), is a Canadian academic and politician. A former president of Acadia University in Wolfville, he was named to the Senate of Canada as a Conservative on August 27, 2009. He is an international expert in biotechnology, bio-organic chemistry and genetic engineering.
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- Sencaplus asks senator kelvin ogilvie where does canada fit in on the global science stage
- The Letters Obesity
- Before politics
- Abbreviated biography
- Media Controversy
- References
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Before politics
His scientific achievements include the development of an automated process for the manufacture of RNA, and the invention of the drug Ganciclovir.
Ogilvie served for three years as chair of Nova Scotia Premier’s Council for Innovation and is Senior Fellow for Postsecondary Education at the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, a rightwing thinktank. He served on the board of Genome Canada and chaired the Advisory Board of National Research Council’s Institute of Marine Bioscience and the Advisory Board of the Atlantic Innovation Fund.
Ogilvie was named to the Order of Canada in 1991.
Abbreviated biography
Senator Kelvin K. Ogilvie is a leading expert on biotechnology, bioorganic chemistry and genetic engineering. His scientific accomplishments include the development of the chemistry of the Biological's “Gene Machine”, an automated process for the manufacture of DNA. He is the inventor of Ganciclovir, a drug used worldwide to fight infections that occur when one’s immune system is weakened. Both of these achievements were recognized in 2000 as "Milestones of Canadian Chemistry in the 20th Century" by the Canadian Society of Chemistry.
Dr. Ogilvie was appointed to the Canadian Senate by Prime Minister Stephen Harper on August 27, 2009. He is currently the Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology and the Chair of Research Canada’s Health Research Caucus.
Media Controversy
A day after Interim Conservative Leader Rona Ambrose removed Senator Lynn Beyak from the Senate's Aboriginal Peoples committee for defending the residential school system, Senator Kelvin Ogilvie was heard calling CBC reporters parasites. The remark was captured on CBC News cameras, and when questioned about his comment moments later he stated: "I don't recall that. Did you hear that? What kind of silliness is this? Why don't you folks go away and find somebody else to bother?".