AstraZeneca is pleased to announce it is bringing 500 highly-skilled scientific and high-tech jobs to the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) in a major expansion of its research footprint in Canada. The investment will contribute to AstraZeneca’s Research & Development Hub (R&D) in Mississauga, which focuses on leading global clinical studies in areas including breast, lung and prostate cancer, COVID-19, and chronic kidney disease. It also includes the creation of a new Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease Development Hub, which focuses on rare disease research.
Read MoreDuring this Lung Cancer Awareness Month, CQDM is proud to announce that it will co-fund a project driven by Dr Philippe Joubert and Pr. Yohan Bossé at the Quebec Heart and Lung Institute (Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et Pneumologie du Québec-Université Laval – IUCPQ-UL) targeting a program of early-stage detection of lung cancer. Funding for this collaborative research project is made possible with the financial support of the ministère de l’Économie et de l’Innovation (MEI) who will be providing $1.36M as part of CQDM’s SynergiQC program.
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