Organization: Johnson & Johnson

Autodesk moving to MaRS west tower

Autodesk is relocating to a larger space in Toronto, taking up two floors at the new tower at MaRS Discovery District. The San Rafael CA-based 3D software developer for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, and entertainment industries is aiming at expanding its products into the clean tech, advanced manufacturing and city planning sectors. Autodesk…

Janssen joins CQDM drug discovery consortium

Janssen Inc (a division of Johnson & Johnson) has become the newest industrial consortium member of CQDM (formerly Quebec Consortium for Drug Discovery). Janssen’s is the ninth pharmaceutical firm to join CQDM in pre-competitive research to develop tools and technologies for accelerating drug discovery. The firm will provide CQDM with cash and in-kind, participate in…

Janssen joins CQDM drug discovery consortium

Janssen Inc (a division of Johnson & Johnson) has become the newest industrial consortium member of CQDM (formerly Quebec Consortium for Drug Discovery). Janssen’s is the ninth pharmaceutical firm to join CQDM in pre-competitive research to develop tools and technologies for accelerating drug discovery. The firm will provide CQDM with cash and in-kind, participate in…

GSK forges novel R&D partnerships with CDRD

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has entered into a two-part R&D collaboration with the Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD) and its commercial arm CDRD Ventures Inc (CVI). The novel agreement will see GSK support early-stage projects through CDRD via the GSK-CDRD Innovation Fund. These projects will engage academic investigators at CDRD’s affiliated institutions or hospital-based research…

Johnson & Johnson closing Montreal R&D facility

Health care products giant Johnson & Johnson is closing its Montreal R&D centre at the end of March, throwing 36 employees and 90 contract staffers out of work. The centre is attached to the firm’s manufacturing plant where it makes feminine hygiene products. The New Brunswick NJ-based firm, which reported $16 billion in sales in…