Montréal, August 25, 2016. – CQDM salutes the extraordinary breakthrough in the fight against cancer uncovered by Professor Sylvain Martel and his team at Polytechnique Montréal. The researchers developed a first-in-kind medical intervention platform that guides nanobots across the vasculature of a living organism to deliver therapeutics at the core of tumors. CQDM granted $1.9…
San Francisco, June 7, 2016. – Partners since 2012, CQDM and Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) are pleased to announce the funding of six new game-changing research projects to accelerate drug discovery under the Quebec-Ontario Life Sciences Corridor, for a total of $1.8M invested. The projects are part of the Explore program and were announced…
Protein trafficking and misfolding under scrutiny Berlin, May 26, 2016. – CQDM is proud to announce the funding of the first project under the Canada/Germany Program with partner the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), through its ZIM Program, for a total of $1M. This announce has been made today at the…
A World First at the Montreal Heart InstituteA discovery in precision medicine that will change patients’ lives Montreal, April 5, 2016 – During the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) in Chicago, a researcher from the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) presented the results of a phase II clinical study demonstrating the safety of…
CQDM is pleased to announce the publication of its 2015 Activity Report. We are proud of our achievements as 2015 has been a year of partnerships. We furthered our collaborations in Europe by forging two key partnerships with Belgium and Germany, while consolidating our activities across Canada. Just this year, we launched 15 new projects involving…
Montreal, February 18, 2016 – The members of CQDM’s Board of Directors are pleased to announce the appointment of Richard Fajzel as new Chairman of the Board. Richard replaces Leon Gosselin who held the position of Chairman since its founding in 2008 and is leaving for a well-deserved retirement. CQDM and the members of the Board…
Montreal, November 11, 2015. – The Chairman of the Board, Dr. Léon Gosselin, and the President and CEO of CQDM, Dr. Diane Gosselin, are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Uwe Schoenbeck, Chief Scientific Officer, External Research & Development Innovation (ERDI), Pfizer Inc., as member of CQDM’s Board of Directors. Pfizer is a founding partner…
Toronto, October 29, 2015. – BioWin, the Health Cluster of Wallonia, and the Government of Wallonia entered into a collaborative agreement with the Canadian consortium CQDM and launched a new Canada/Wallonia joint funding program. This new international collaborative agreement will help Canadian SMEs and academic researchers work jointly with SMEs from the Walloon region of…
Montreal, October 6th, 2015. – CQDM and AiF Projekt GmbH, the project management agency of BMWi, the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, are very pleased to announce the launch of a new international funding initiative entitled the Canada/Germany joint program, within CQDM’s Canada/Europe joint funding initiative. This collaboration agreement aims at funding collaborative…
Montreal, July 29th, 2015. – CQDM and CIHR, through its institutes of Cancer Research, Genetics and Infection and Immunity, are pleased to announce $1.5M in funding for two translational projects in personalized medicine, to accelerate drug discovery and drug development. One project will be led by Dr. Henry Krause from the University of Toronto and the other one…