The Centre for Drug Research and Development provides drug-development expertise and facilities to enable researchers throughout BC to develop promising drug candidates. Our organization draws on and develops discoveries made by scientists working in BC-based academic research and health institutions. Scientific and technical expertise guided by commercial insight allows our team to assess the chances that a discovery will result in a successful drug. We provide a collaborative framework through which drug development can become sustainable, cost-effective, and advantageous to society.
CDRD's mission is to improve the health of Canadians by advancing promising discoveries to a commercially attractive stage and to build a collaborative research infrastructure to increase research and development capacity in the life sciences in British Columbia.