Centre for Drug Research and Development

The Centre for Drug Research and Development(CDRD)
Research and Commercialization Institute
Industry Biotechnology
Founded 2007
Headquarters Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Key people
 Karimah Es Sabar, President and CEO
Dr. Gregorio Aversa, Senior Vice President, Drug Development
Kathryn Hayashi, CFO
John Babcook, Vice President, Biologics
Dr. Jason Crawford, Senior Director, Scientific Operations
Doug Erfle, Director, Project Management
Barry Gee, Director, Communications
Dr. Dave Rogers, Director, Intellectual Property
Number of employees
 95
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The Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD) is Canada’s fully integrated national drug development and commercialization centre, providing expertise and infrastructure to enable researchers from leading health research institutions to advance promising early-stage drug candidates. Our mandate is to de-risk discoveries stemming from publicly funded health research and transform them into viable investment opportunities for the private sector – thus successfully bridging the commercialization gap between academia and industry, and translating research discoveries into new therapies for patients. Canada’s Networks of Centres of Excellence Program has recognized CDRD as a Centre of Excellence for Commercialization and Research (CECR).

CDRD Ventures Inc. (CVI) is the commercialization vehicle of The Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD), Canada’s national drug development and commercialization centre. With affiliations across more than 30 of Canada’s top research universities and institutes, CDRD is the only fully integrated centre of its kind in the country – and one of a handful in the world – with the full expertise and infrastructure to source, evaluate, and develop both small molecule and biologic innovative technologies in virtually any therapeutic area. And with a first right to negotiate for any of the technologies developed at CDRD (over 100 to date), CVI has a continuous and unparalleled pipeline of the most innovative and commercially promising pre-validated and thus de-risked technologies in Canada.

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Funding

CDRD is supported by both public and private sector organizations looking to advance the successful commercialization of health research. These organizations include:

Participating institutions

CDRD currently has an existing portfolio of close to 80 supported research projects generated from its network of 20+ affiliated research institutions. These institutions represent Canada's top health research universities and research centres, as well as select international partner organizations. Collectively, these affiliated institutions invest several billion dollars in health-related research every year, and CDRD plays a pivotal role in translating that research into commercial products and economic returns including new jobs for British Columbia and Canada.

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