Date: 2012-06-18
Type of information: R&D agreement
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Company: Alsace BioValley (France) CQDM (Canada) Lyonbiopole (France)
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Type agreement: R&D
collaboration
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Details: On the occasion of the international life sciences fair, "BIO International Convention," the French competitiveness cluster Lyonbiopole has announced that it has joined the already existing consortium between another French competitiveness cluster, Alsace BioValley and Quebec Consortium for Drug Discovery (CQDM). A first agreement, signed in November 2010 between the two partners had already helped to initiate several research collaboration between actors in Alsace and Quebec. With these early successes and the special relationship established between Alsace BioValley and Lyonbiopole, a new bilateral agreement has been recently signed between CQDM and Lyonbiopole.
This new agreement aims to develop a joint program to enhance biomedical research in Quebec, Alsace and Rhone-Alpes by the alignment of international resources. The objective of this program is to co-finance research projects aimed at developing new technologies or enablers for biopharmaceutical research, conducted in collaboration between Quebec, Alsace and/or Rhone-Alpes. Promoting creativity, innovation, and multidisciplinary collaboration between academic institutions and private organizations (biotech/research organizations under contract CRO), the tripartite call for project will allocate a maximum funding of $1.4 M for a 3 year period.
Scientific excellence, applicability and feasibility of the project will be evaluated by external evaluators, selected jointly by the three parties. Particular attention will be paid to the ability to produce applicable results (after funding period), having an immediate impact for biopharmaceutical research. CQDM, Alsace BioValley and Lyonbiopole will evaluate aspects related to intellectual property, potential ethical issues, corporate information as well as any potential risks that could endanger the achievement of a research project.
To create links between researchers from Alsace, Rhone-Alpes and Quebec and to facilitate exchange and collaborations, CQDM, Alsace BioValley and Lyonbiopole will organize networking events.
First contacts have been created during the 6th Edition of \"Fast Track R&D Partnering with France\" (FTRD) on June 18th, in parallel of BIO. The next networking event will be held in Lyon, in November 2012.
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