Accolades


Awards and Recognition

The Company and Dr. Jacqueline Shan, CSO, have received numerous science, business and industry awards and recognitions. These include:

Note: In 2009 CV Technologies changed its name to Afexa Life Sciences

2010
  • Dr. Shan featured as cover story in the Jan/Feb 2010 issue of Canadian Newcomer magazine
  • Two scientific papers on COLD-FX® and REMEMBER-FX® receive second- and third-place prizes at the 7th annual conference on natural supplements hosted by the Scripps Centre for Integrative Medicine
2009
  • Dr. Shan appointed to Alberta Innovates—Bio Solutions Board
  • CV Technologies changes its name to Afexa Life Sciences to better convey the company’s rigourous life-sciences orientation
  • COLD-FX is named the #1 pharmacist-recommended natural cold remedy for the fourth straight year by a survey conducted by Drugstore Canada (formerly Pharmacy Post)
  • Doctors join pharmacists in naming COLD-FX their top recommendation for natural cold remedies, according to a survey conducted by Medical Post magazine
  • Dr. Shan is nominated for inclusion in the Women’s Executive Network list of Canada’s 100 Most Powerful Women
  • COLD-FX is recognized by OTC Perspectives magazine as one of the 25 top healthcare marketers of the year
  • COLD-FX receives the highest sports certification in North America from the leading product safety and banned substances testing body for elite athletes, NSF International
  • Dr. Shan featured on CBC-TV network show “Fortune Hunters” as an exemplary Entrepreneur
2008
  • Profit magazine ranks CV Technologies 9th on its list of the 100 fastest growing companies in Canada
  • Dr. Shan selected as winner of Fairchild TV’s 2008 inaugural top award – Best of the Best Award.
  • Profit magazine ranks Dr. Shan as # 8 on its W100 list of the 100 most influential women entrepreneurs
  • CV Technologies recognized by the Government of Alberta for its efforts to honour Alberta hockey moms
  • CV Technologies recognized by the Government of Manitoba for its efforts to honor Manitoba hockey moms
  • COLD-FX is named the #1 pharmacist-recommended natural cold remedy for the third straight year by a survey conducted by Pharmacy Post magazine
  • CV Technologies is a finalist for the 2008 ASTech Science & Technology Awards
  • Dr. Shan is a finalist for the 2008 RBC Women Entrepreneur Awards
2007
  • Dr. Shan nominated for 2007 Women’s Executive Network as one of Canada’s 100 Most Powerful Women; nominee in 2006, winner in 2005
  • Dr. Shan featured as cover story in the Mar/April 2007 issue of BioBusiness magazine
  • Dr. Shan featured as cover story in the Mar/April 2007 issue of Edmonton Woman magazine.
  • CV Technologies ranked the fastest growing company in Alberta as part of the “Fast 50” by Alberta Venture magazine (January, 2007) Also ranked among the fastest growing companies in Alberta for the Fast 50 in 2006
  • For the second year in a row, COLD-FX is named the #1 pharmacist-recommended natural cold remedy by a survey conducted by Pharmacy Post magazine
  • COLD-FX selected for inclusion in the 2007 Physician’s Desk Reference – one of the most important medical publications in the world
2006
  • Dr. Shan nominated for the Canada’s Outstanding CEO of the Year Award
  • Dr. Shan nominated for 2006 Women’s Executive Network as one of Canada’s 100 Most Powerful Women
  • Dr. Shan nominated for the 2006 Manning Awards
  • Dr. Shan nominated for the 2006 RBC Female Entrepreneur of the Year
  • Dr. Shan chosen the 2006 Canadian Chinese Entrepreneur of the Year
  • Dr. Shan inducted into the Canadian Healthcare Marketing Hall of Fame
  • Dr. Shan ranked # 13 on the Profit magazine’s (November, 2006) W100 List of Canada’s Top 100 Women Entrepreneurs (She ranked # 57 on the 2005 List)
  • CV Technologies featured as cover story after being chosen by Marketing magazine as Canada’s top marketer of the year
  • Dr. Shan featured as cover story of Avenue Edmonton’s premier edition September, 2006
  • Dr. Shan chosen by Alberta Venture (July, 2006), along with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, as two of Alberta’s 50 Most Influential People
  • Dr. Shan singled out, along with the inventor of the BlackBerry, by National Post (May, 2006) as a distinguished Canadian inventor
  • Dr. Shan appointed a founding member of the Alberta Life Sciences Council
  • Dr. Shan, chosen as fellow of Quantum Shift, an elite national program for Canada’s leading entrepreneurs
  • Dr. Shan is elected to the Young President’s Organization
  • CV Technologies chosen # 1 company on the TSX Venture Exchange
  • CV Technologies chosen by Profit magazine for the Profit 100 – listing the fastest growing companies in Canada
  • CV Technologies named one of Deloitte’s Tech Fast 50 for 2006 & 2005
  • CV Technologies named one of Deloitte’s Tech Fast 500 for North America (one of North America’s fastest growing companies)
  • COLD-FX is named the #1 pharmacist-recommended natural cold remedy by a survey conducted by Pharmacy Post magazine
  • CV Technologies awarded a gold medal for growth in the small company category by Nutrition Business Journal
2005
  • CV Technologies clinical research chosen as one of the top 25 clinical trials in the world in 2005 by the Office of Dietary Supplements of the National Institutes of Health, a branch of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department
  • Dr. Shan is awarded with membership in the Women’s Executive Network’s 2005 list of Canada’s 100 Most Powerful Women
  • Dr. Shan wins the ASTech Award for Science Leadership; finalist in 2004
  • Dr. Shan wins the Ernst & Young 2005 Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Life Sciences; was a finalist in 2004
  • Dr. Shan chosen by Alberta Venture magazine as one of the 100 Entrepreneurs of the Past Century ‘who built the province’
  • Dr. Shan recognized for outstanding service to the People and Province of Alberta as a recipient of the Alberta Centennial Medal
  • Dr. Shan singled out by the Calgary Herald (October, 2005) as one of the Albertans in the past 85 years who’s changed the ‘medical landscape’
  • CV Technologies chosen as a finalist for the Red Herring Small Cap 100
2004
  • Dr. Shan was a nominee for 2004 Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award, University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management
  • Dr. Shan named a finalist for the Ernst & Young 2004 Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Life Sciences
  • Dr. Shan chosen by Global TV as a “Woman of Vision”
  • Dr. Shan wins Bio Alberta’s 2004 Entrepreneur of the Year Award
  • CV Technologies was awarded the 2004 bronze medal from Alive magazine
  • CV Technologies featured in “Cool Companies” book