Frederic Ors

Consortium Québécois sur la Découverte du Médicament (CQDM) is a not-for-profit biopharmaceutical research consortium based in Montréal, Canada. CQDM's mission is to support and facilitate multi-stakeholder collaborative R&D aimed at accelerating the translation of innovative technologies into solutions that address unmet medical needs, while generating significant benefits for the Quebec and Canadian economy. CQDM funds the development of innovative tools and technologies that accelerate the discovery and development of safer and more effective drugs. The company's Quantum Leap pharma-led funding program for drug discovery research helps SMEs or Canadian universities achieve innovative translational biopharmaceutical research projects. CQDM's SynergiQC-International program is designed to promote university-based industrial research in the biopharmaceutical field with collaborators outside, that will generate economic benefits. The non-profit company was founded by Max Fehlmann.

BIOTECanada serves as a national association for Canada's health, industrial and agricultural biotechnology sectors. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Medicago, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. It develops novel vaccines and therapeutic proteins to address a broad range of infectious diseases worldwide. The firm provides vaccines and therapeutic proteins based on its proprietary Virus-Like Particles and manufacturing technologies. It develops Virus-Like Particles vaccines using a transient expression system which produces recombinant vaccine antigens in plants. The company was founded by Louis-Philippe Vézina on July 17, 1997 and is headquartered in Quebec, Canada.