Dr. Elaine Corbett is the Senior Director of Business Development & Philanthropy at Ontario Genomics. Elaine brings more than two decades of progressive leadership experience spanning industry, non-profit, and academia. In her current role, she leads efforts to expand partnerships, unlock new revenue streams, and drive sponsorship and philanthropic opportunities for mission-driven initiatives to equip innovators to bring game-changing solutions to market. Elaine has spearheaded impactful initiatives and investments across food and agriculture, cleantech, health, and the broader biomanufacturing sector—developing diverse programs to empower biotech entrepreneurs, industry, and academia, while fostering innovation and job creation. Guided by the belief that partnership and collaboration are critical to meaningful change, she has built successful partnerships and secured millions in partnership and project funding. She has also spearheaded strategic reports that shape industry direction and inform funding strategies.

Prior to joining Ontario Genomics in 2014, Elaine held roles at two biotech firms: as Project Manager at SQI Diagnostics, where she led multidisciplinary programs in advanced microarray diagnostics, and as Senior Field Application Scientist at Axela, focusing on client engagement, technical sales, and product development across diagnostic platforms. Elaine received her Honors BSc in Biomedical Science from University College Cork, Ireland. She received her PhD in Biochemistry from the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta, where her work focused on the endoplasmic reticulum and the chaperones involved in protein folding and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Cell Biology Program at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, where her work focused on cell-mediated immunity and phagocytosis.