Pfizer Canada is providing $1 million to the Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD) to create a Pfizer-CDRD Innovation Fund for fast tracking academic research projects into medicinal products to be licensed or spun off as new companies. The funding is the first by a major pharmaceutical company in CDRD — a network of…
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CDRD secures $8 million from BC government
The Centre for Drug Research and Development has received $8 million from the BC Knowledge Development Fund. The funding matches an award from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and brings the Centre’s total raised to $50 million (R$, December 11/06)….
MSFHR launches research platform dev’t program
The Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) has launched the first provincial research platform development program of its kind in Canada. MSFHR will fund six platforms from a slate of 38 proposals, with each receiving up to $1 million over two years. The successful technology and methodology platforms are: BC BioLibrary, BC Proteomics Network,…