June 8, 2009
CDRD's Inaugural Conference on Drug Research and Development
June 1, 2010
The Centre for Drug Research and Development and Vancouver Prostate Centre Sign a Preferred Collaboration Agreement: Two Vancouver-based "Centres of Excellence in Commercialization in Research" Leverage Resources and Expertise to Develop Anti-Cancer Therapeutics
May 20, 2010
December 1, 2009
CDRD Appoints Karimah Es Sabar as Senior Vice President, Business and Strategic Affairs
November 30, 2009
MaRS Innovation and CDRD Announce Strategic Collaboration
October 20, 2009
Xenon and CDRD’s Commercial Arm, DDI, Announce Strategic R&D Collaboration
September 2, 2009
New UBC Pharmaceutical Sciences Building is Announced
June 8, 2009
New Development Fund to Accelerate Commercialization of Genomics-related Drug Discoveries
February 9, 2009
CDRD receives additional $2 million in funding from Pfizer
October 14, 2008
CDRD Update March 2007 - September 2008
July 8 , 2008
BIOTECanada article on CDRD
June 24, 2008
CEO Natalie Dakers appointed to Board of Directors of Canada Foundation for Innovation
April 7 , 2008
MidwestBusiness.com article on CDRD by Michael S. Rosen, founder of the Illinois Biotechnology Industry Organization.
February 19, 2008
CDRD receives $15 million in funding from Government of Canada
February 12, 2008
Business In Vancouver article on CDRD
February 4, 2008
CDRD receives $1 million in funding from Pfizer
February 4, 2008
Vancouver Sun article on CDRD
January 25, 2008
Tyee article on CDRD
November 2007
Frontier article (the UBC VP of Research journal) on CDRD
July 6 , 2007
CDRD received $300,000 in funding from Canada’s New Government through Western Economic Diversification Canada
June 13 , 2007
CDRD article in Life Sciences British Columbia 2007 issue
June 12 , 2007
CDRD receives $1 million in funding from Michael Smith Foundation
May 25 , 2007
CDRD receives an additional $8 million in funding
April 20, 2007
Vancouver Sun article on CDRD
April 19, 2007
CDRD receives $25 million in funding from Province of BC
February 2007
University Affairs article on CDRD
November 27, 2006
New Hybrid Drug Development Centre Receives CFI Funding
November 14, 2006
Natalie Dakers participates in Canadian Financing Forum – Meet the Investors at 1:45pm at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel
November 7, 2006
CDRD-SFU Networking Event for Investigators at 4pm at the Diamond Club
September 26, 2006
CDRD Presentation at Pfizer BioPartnering Event
September 12, 2006
CDRD presents at Life Sciences Angel Network Forum
September 7, 2006
CDRD-UVIC Networking Event for Investigators at 4pm at University Club
July 2006
BC Business magazine roundtable on BC biotechnology
June 2006
CDRD receives a $750,000 grant from CIHR
April 8, 2006
CDRD Presents at BIO 2006 in Chicago as part of British Columbia Delegation
February 21, 2006
Business in Vancouver profile on Natalie Dakers
September 24, 2005
New Scientist article: “Head for the cities in the snow”
July 7, 2005
UBC Reports article: “Research CEO Aims to Shorten Drug Development Process”
March 22, 2005
Business in Vancouver article: “UBC Initiative to link biotech research with private enterprise opportunities”