ABBVIE
About AbbVie
AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people’s lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women’s health, and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.
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Website: www.abbvie.com
Twitter: twitter.com/abbviecanada
Facebook: www.facebook.com/AbbVieCareers
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/abbvie/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/abbvie
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/AbbVie
AMGEN CANADA
Commitment to improve Canada’s health-care system.
Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology.
Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its biologics manufacturing expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people’s lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world’s largest independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.
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Website: https://www.amgen.ca/
Facebook: @AmgenCanada
Twitter: @AmgenCanadaGM
LinkedIn: @Amgen
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ASTRAZENECA CANADA
AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven biopharmaceutical business with a focus on the discovery, development, and commercialization of medicines that transform lives. Our primary scientific focus is in Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic (CVRM) disease; Oncology; Rare Disease; Respiratory & Immunology; and Vaccine & Immune-Therapies. In 2023, AstraZeneca invested more than $230 million in Canadian health sciences research in our core therapy areas.
Across Canada, the company employs more than 2,300 people and recently announced a major expansion of more than 700 new highly-skilled jobs. This builds on its 2024 agreement to acquire Hamilton-based Fusion Pharmaceuticals in one of the largest research investments made in a Canadian biotechnology company and its 2023 announcement of more than 500 new scientific and high-tech jobs in the Greater Toronto Area.
AstraZeneca has been recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers 2024, one of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures 2024, and designated a Top Employer in the GTA for 10 consecutive years. For more information, please visit www.astrazeneca.ca
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Website: www.astrazeneca.ca
LinkedIn: @AstraZeneca
Instagram: @AstraZenecaCanada
GSK
GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people over the next 10 years. Our bold ambitions for patients are reflected in new commitments to growth and a step-change in performance.
We prioritize innovation in vaccines and specialty medicines, maximizing the increasing opportunities to prevent and treat disease. At the heart of this is our R&D focus on the science of the immune system, human genetics and advanced technologies, and our world-leading capabilities in vaccines – having the broadest vaccines portfolio in the industry - and medicines development.
In Canada, GSK employs over 1,450 full time employees across the country. We are headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, and have a regional business office in Montreal, Quebec, as well as a manufacturing facility and administrative office in Sainte-Foy, Quebec. Since 2001, GSK has invested more than $2 billion in vaccine and pharmaceutical R&D in Canada, including over $109 million in 2022 alone. GSK has invested more than $21 million in 54 active clinical trials across Canada, involving 3,700 subjects in 2022.
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Website: www.gsk.ca
Twitter: @gskca
LinkedIn: GSK
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HEALTH SOLUTIONS BY SHOPPERS
Established in 2010, Health Solutions by Shoppers works collaboratively with Canada’s leading employers, insurance companies, and benefits advisors to drive innovation in benefits plan management and employee wellness.
Leveraging Shoppers Drug Mart and Loblaw’s strong industry partnerships, drug expertise, and unmatched retail assets, the Health Solutions by Shoppers team is committed to enabling employers to provide their employees with drug plan and health management solutions that are affordable and sustainable.
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Website: www.healthsolutions.ca
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Email: saleshealthsolutions@shoppersdrugmart.ca
LinkedIn: @health solutions by shoppers
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INNOVATIVE MEDICINES CANADA
Innovative Medicines Canada represents Canada’s innovative pharmaceutical industry. We help our members discover, develop and deliver innovative medicines and vaccines.
Our member companies, which range from early-stage startups to established organizations, are revolutionizing healthcare through the discovery and development of new medicines and vaccines.
Our industry supports 107,000 high-quality, well-paying jobs in Canada and invests $2.4 billion in R&D every year. Collectively, our activities contribute $15.9 billion per year to Canada’s knowledge-based economy.
Guided by a strict Code of Ethical Practices, we work with governments, insurance companies, healthcare professionals and other stakeholders to advance the field of pharmaceutical research and development and enhance the wellbeing of Canadians. We are committed to being valued partners in Canada’s healthcare system.
We achieve our goals by forming alliances, supporting policies, improving Canada’s regulatory environment, widening access to innovative medicines and ensuring the effective protection of intellectual property.
We believe in ensuring that Canadians have access to the innovative treatments they need. Our activities are a fundamental part of safeguarding our healthcare system for future generations.
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Website: https://innovativemedicines.ca/browse-by/private-drug-coverage/
Cost Drivers Report: https://innovativemedicines.ca/resources/all-resources/cost-drivers-report-2023/
PFIZER
Pfizer Canada ULC is the Canadian operation of Pfizer Inc., one of the world's leading biopharmaceutical companies. Our diversified health care portfolio includes some of the world’s best known and most prescribed medicines and vaccines. Pfizer’s ongoing research and development activities focus on a wide range of therapeutic areas following our guiding purpose: Breakthroughs that change patients’ livesTM.
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Website: pfizer.ca
LinkedIn: Pfizer
Facebook: Pfizer Canada
Twitter: @PfizerCA
Youtube: Pfizer Canada
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JOHNSON & JOHNSON
At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity.
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Website: www.jnj.com and
innovativemedicine.jnj.com/canada
LinkedIn: Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, Canada
X: @JNJInnovMedCAN
Janssen Inc. is a Johnson & Johnson company.
OTSUKA
Otsuka Canada Pharmaceutical Inc. (OCPI) is an innovative, patient-centred health care company that commercializes medicines in Canada, with a focus on commitment to neuroscience and nephrology.
OCPI is dedicated to improving patients’ health and the quality of human life. Through our unconventional way of thinking, we have and will continue to succeed in our promise to create new and better healthcare products and solutions.
OCPI was established in 2010, with headquarters in Saint-Laurent, Québec.
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