What is CDRD?
Headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, The Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD) is Canada’s national drug development and commercialization engine.
We work in partnership with academia, industry, government and foundations, to provide the specialized expertise and infrastructure to identify and de-risk promising discoveries generated by health-related research, and transform them into commercially viable investment opportunities for the private sector – and ultimately into innovative new therapies for patients.
In doing so, CDRD is actively growing our national health sciences industry into a wholly-optimized generator of economic prosperity for the country.
Since 2008, Canada’s Networks of Centres of Excellence Program has recognized CDRD as a Centre of Excellence for Commercialization and Research (CECR).
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News & Publications
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- February 16, 2016 MS Society of Canada & CDRD to Accelerate Promising New Therapeutics for Progressive MS
- February 11, 2016 CDRD Chooses CDD for New Drug Discovery Informatics Platform
- February 2, 2016 CDRD Spin-off Companies Selected to Present at Dose of the Valley
- January 12, 2016 Zucara Therapeutics Inc. developing drug to prevent hypoglycemic episodes for people with diabetes
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- May 25, 2015 Funding Pan-Canadian Innovation
- April 9, 2015 Podocalyxin enhances breast tumor growth and metastasis and is a target for monoclonal antibody therapy
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