{"id":6923,"date":"2025-09-24T11:17:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/?p=6923"},"modified":"2025-09-24T11:19:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:19:47","slug":"congratulations-to-variational-ai-on-their-collaboration-with-merck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/en\/news-and-events\/congratulations-to-variational-ai-on-their-collaboration-with-merck\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Variational AI on their collaboration with Merck!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CQDM congratulates <strong>Variational AI (VAI)<\/strong> on announcing a major two-year partnership with <strong>Merck<\/strong>, valued at up to <strong>USD $349 million<\/strong>. This collaboration aims to accelerate the discovery of new medicines using <strong>Enki\u2122<\/strong>, VAI\u2019s cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CQDM is proud to have played a pivotal role in launching this journey through its <strong>Quantum Leap<\/strong> program, which supported the initial project between VAI and Merck in 2023.<br>Learn more about this project \ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/variational.ai\/press-release\/variational-ai-announces-generative-ai-project-with-merck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This achievement reflects CQDM\u2019s mission: to accelerate therapeutic innovation, strengthen the competitiveness of Quebec\u2019s and Canada\u2019s biopharmaceutical sector, and foster high-impact strategic partnerships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/variational.ai\/featured\/variational-ai-enters-collaboration-with-merck-to-apply-generative-ai-to-drug-discovery\/?utm_campaign=22379802-2025%20-%20Merck%20Deal%20announcement&amp;utm_content=346354209&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=linkedin&amp;hss_channel=lcp-40942205\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full press release<\/a><\/strong><br>\ud83d\udc49 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/en\/programs\/quantum-leap\/\">Learn more about the Quantum Leap program<\/a><\/strong><br>This program is designed to connect innovative Canadian biotech companies with global pharmaceutical leaders, driving research and innovation in the life sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CQDM congratulates Variational AI (VAI) on announcing a major two-year partnership with Merck, valued at up to USD $349 million. This collaboration aims to accelerate the discovery of new medicines using Enki\u2122, VAI\u2019s cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence platform. CQDM is proud to have played a pivotal role in launching this journey through its Quantum Leap&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-from-the-industry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6926,"href":"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923\/revisions\/6926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}