The Awards program is a competitive research grant open to all researchers interested in psychiatric diseases and mental illness, including physicians, academics and pharmacists. Two research grants of $100,000 each will help fund innovative research in the fields of major depressive disorder, schizophrenia, or bipolar disorder. [Click on Logo to learn more]
Pfizer Canada’s $22 million investment maintains a work environment that fosters innovative ideas and is worthy of a health-care industry leader. [Click on Pic to learn more]
The Global Food Safety – China Program (GFS–CP) has benefited from support provided by Cargill, General Mills, Pfizer Animal Health and Danone who regard science-based standards, guidelines and recommendations as key to protecting public health and minimizing food-borne illness. Numerous intergovernmental and not-for-profit organizations along with many food-focused companies are also contributing expertise and in-kind support. In all, this delegation will interact with close to 100 different experts. [Click on Logo to learn more]
Start Something with Alesse is pleased to announce Sheyla Abdic and Sedina Fiati as the two winners of a $5,000 grant and mentoring with the contest’s role models, Christine Ho and Marième Ndiaye, to help turn their visions into reality. [Click on Pic to learn more]
In 2010 alone, Pfizer Canada donated more than $3 million in medicines. More than $1.5 million in antibiotics, anti-inflammatories and anti-fungals were given to help treat survivors of the earthquake in Haiti. Other medicines were donated for HPIC’s Physician Travel Pack program, which equips Canadian healthcare workers with primary care medicines for short term medical missions. [Click opn Logo to learn more]
“Today’s generation is ambitious and community minded, and we not only want to inspire young Canadians to be creative and inspirational, we want to help them achieve their goals,” says John McKendry, Pfizer Canada Inc. “These six finalists have certainly shown us what they can do and we are proud to provide two of them with the resources to ‘start something’ of their own.” [Click on Pic to learn more]
In an effort to help my readers distinguish between scientific fact and fiction, I will now describe a way that anyone can use to tell whether a scientific study is real or horse hooey. [Click on Pic to learn more]
Pfizer Canada is pleased to announce that this year’s Ripples of Hope Award will be given to two individuals for their outstanding work in the areas of Mental Health and Rare Diseases. Safia Ladha is currently working towards a Masters in Science at the University of British Columbia in her pursuit of a career in Medical Genetics. Dr. Amber Southwell is a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics and is conducting research for the treatment of Huntington Disease (HD). [Click on Logo to learn more]
Inspired by the resourcefulness and community focus characteristic of Generation Y (or those born between 1980 and 1999), the Start Something with Alesse contest is designed to solicit innovative proposals from young adults committed to bringing about positive change in their own lives and the lives of those around them. Examples include creating a charity, producing a play or film, or starting a company. The possibilities are endless. [Click on Pic to learn more]
Since its inception, The Pfizer Cardiovascular Research Awards Program has supported independent cardiovascular research in the areas of basic, biomedical and clinical sciences, patient care enhancement, epidemiology and outcomes research. 2010 marks the seventh round of Awards recipients. Over the years, the program has developed partnership awards with leading national health charities: The Canadian Hypertension Society, The Kidney Foundation of Canada and The Ontario Lung Association, in order to increase research funding in their specific areas of interest. A young Quebec investigator award was also created with the CardioVascular Health Network of the Fond de la Recherche en Santé Québec (FRSQ). In all, Pfizer has provided $8,100,000 to 53 researchers over the course of the program. [Click on Logo to learn more]
“These results help clarify the relationship of P-cadherin expression and survival in breast cancer patients and may motivate targeting anti-p-cad therapy as part of a precision medicine strategy,” says Paul Rejto, Director, Pfizer R&D Oncology. [Click on Logo to learn more]
Todd Magazine, President, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, North America is pleased to announce the appointment of Faissal Tahiri to General Manager, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, Canada, based in Mississauga, Ontario. Tahiri replaces Suneet Varma, who has taken a position as Regional President, Asia-Pacific, for Pfizer Consumer Healthcare. [Click on Logo to learn more]
