Montreal, October 5th, 2020 – Richard Fajzel, Chairman of CQDM’s Board of Directors and Diane Gosselin, President and CEO of CQDM are pleased to announce the appointment of Philip Tagari to the Board of Directors. Philip Tagari is currently Vice President of Research (Therapeutic Discovery) at Amgen Inc., one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies.…
Dr Yves Fradet / Dr Frédéric Pouliot CQDM Awards a Grant to Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval for a Study Collaboration With Merck Canada to Identify Biomarkers of Response to Pembrolizumab in Patients with Localized but Aggressive Prostate Cancer Montreal, July 20, 2020 – CQDM is pleased to announce a grant for…
Milad Dagher / David Juncker July 16, 2020 (Montreal, Quebec) – McGill University and CQDM announced today that a collaborative project between McGill and nplex biosciences to further develop a highly-scalable protein detection method, termed the “nELISA”, has been selected for funding by CQDM. The research team will receive a $1,000,000 grant for one year…
Montréal (Québec), July 14, 2020 – The biopharmaceutical research consortium CQDM is pleased to announce the launch of a project valued at over $300,000 to support the development of a molecular test designed to assess, among others, the risk of death in COVID-19 patients. The initiative proposed by MRM Proteomics Inc. is made possible with…
Montreal, June 22, 2020. CQDM is pleased to announce an investment in Mesentech Inc., an emerging biotech based in Vancouver, British Columbia, developing a bone-targeting technology platform to deliver drugs selectively to bone-tissue. The lead program, MES-1007, aims to restore bone density and strength in conditions such as osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease), congenital muscular…
Open letter – Published in the Hill Times (Ottawa) June 29th 2020 (https://www.hilltimes.com/2020/06/29/health-innovation-investing-now-to-face-the-crises-of-tomorrow/254763) & Published on LaPresse website June 20th 2020 (https://www.lapresse.ca/debats/opinions/2020-06-20/innovation-en-sante-investissons-maintenant-pour-faire-face-aux-crises-de-demain) Health innovation will play a key part in the battle against the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. As we have been doing since the beginning of the crisis, the leaders of the…
Montreal, June 18, 2020 – The Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) and the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation (QBCF), two leading organizations in funding breast cancer research, together with the biopharmaceutical research consortium CQDM, are proud to support the research conducted by Professor Yves St-Pierre at INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier. Valued at $1.15M, the project will support the development…
Pr. Yves St-Pierre – INRS Montreal, June 18, 2020 – CQDM partners with the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS), the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation (QBCF), the Armand-Frappier Foundation, the Canadian Glycomics Network (GlycoNet), Zymeworks and Pfizer as part of a $1.15M funding agreement. These funds will enable Professor Yves St-Pierre and his colleagues, Professors David Chatenet…
June 16th 2020 – The Government of Quebec is launching the second call for proposals under the Fonds d’accélération des collaborations en santé (FACS). Consortia of partners from the public, private and non-profit sectors are invited to submit structuring projects that meet the current and future practical needs of companies in the life sciences sector.…
May 19, 2020 – These difficult times challenge our society and force us to live up to the appointment that the future gives us. In Le Monde, historian Yuval Noah Harari recently wrote that “the real antidote to the epidemic is not withdrawal, but cooperation”, adding that “true protection comes from sharing”. Under no circumstances…