Albert "Bert" D. Friesen, (born May 19, 1947) is a Canadian biotechnologist involved in biotechnology innovation. His biotechnology career began as the first full-time employee of the

Winnipeg Rh Institute Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749 ...

, where he later became president and CEO, and led the development of WinRho, one of Canada's first successful

biotech Biotechnology is the integration of natural sciences and engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms, cells, parts thereof and molecular analogues for products and services. The term ''biotechnology'' was first used b ...

products.

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{{Biotech-stub 1947 births Living people People from Pembina Valley Region, Manitoba Canadian Mennonites Biotechnologists University of Manitoba alumni Members of the Order of Manitoba