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Innovative Medicines Canada

Innovative Medicines Canada (IMC) is a Canadian pharmaceutical industry association based in Ottawa, Ontario. It is affiliated with the Health Research Foundation (HRF).[1]

History

IMC participated as a partner in the This Is Our Shot mass advertising campaign for COVID-19 vaccines.[2]

IMC purchased advertising space with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in 2020-2022.[3]

Organization

IMC is represented on the board of directors for the Pharmaceutical Advertising Advisory Board (PAAB) by Crawford Wright.[4] It is also partnered with the Best Medicines Coalition[5] and is a paying member of Ad Standards.[6] It is also a member of the Business Council of British Columbia (BCBC).[7]

Member companies

Current and former member companies of IMC include:[8][9]

  • AbbVie
  • Actelion
  • Akcea Therapeutics
  • Allphase Clinical Research
  • Almirall
  • Amgen
  • Amicus Therapeutics
  • Astellas Pharma
  • AstraZeneca
  • Bayer
  • BIOVECTRA
  • Boehringer Ingelheim
  • Bristol-Myers Squibb
  • Brunel
  • Ceapro
  • Charles River Laboratories
  • Conundrum Solutions
  • Council for Continuing Pharmaceutical Education
  • Dalton Pharma Services
  • Eisai
  • Eli Lilly
  • Elvium Life Sciences
  • EMD Serono
  • Emergent BioSolutions
  • Endoceutics
  • Ferring Pharmaceuticals
  • Genome Canada
  • Gilead Sciences
  • GlaxoSmithKline
  • GLyPharma Therapeutics
  • Horizon Therapeutics
  • Incyte
  • Innoviva
  • Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals
  • Janssen
  • JN Nova
  • JSS Medical Research
  • KalGene Pharmaceuticals
  • Knight Therapeutics
  • Laboratoires BNK Canada
  • LEO Pharma
  • Liminal BioSciences (formerly ProMetic Life Sciences)
  • Lundbeck
  • Medicago
  • Merck
  • Nordic Pharma
  • Novartis
  • Novo Nordisk
  • Nucro-Technics
  • Nutrasource Diagnostics
  • Otsuka Pharmaceutical
  • Paladin Labs
  • Pediapharm
  • Pfizer
  • Proteocyte Diagnostics
  • Purdue Pharma
  • Roche
  • Ropack
  • Sanofi
  • Santen
  • Servier
  • Shire
  • Sobi
  • Sunovion
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals
  • Therapure Biopharma
  • Theravance Biopharma
  • Theratechnologies
  • Valeo Pharma
  • Vantage Biotrials

Personnel

Name Position Notes
Cole Pinnow Board Chair[10] Pfizer

  1. About. Health Research Foundation. Retrieved January 4, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.01.04-064147/http://www.hrf-frs.com/en/about ↩︎

  2. Home. This Is Our Shot Canada. Retrieved July 14, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230714200256/https://thisisourshot.ca/ ↩︎

  3. Final Release Package A-2023-00059 CBC, Advertising Companies. CBC/Radio-Canada. Retrieved October 1, 2023, from https://archive.org/details/final-release-package-a-2023-00059-cbc-advertising-companies ↩︎

  4. About. Pharmaceutical Advertising Advisory Board. Retrieved April 24, 2022, from http://archive.today/2018.09.24-200521/https://www.paab.ca/about.htm ↩︎

  5. Support. Best Medicines Coalition. Retrieved August 29, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220829002642/https://bestmedicinescoalition.org/about/support/ ↩︎

  6. Member Logos. Ad Standards. Retrieved September 17, 2021, from https://web.archive.org/web/20210917052119/https://adstandards.ca/about/membership/member-logos/ ↩︎

  7. Membership. Business Association of British Columbia. Retrieved November 25, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20231125022859/https://bcbc.com/membership/ ↩︎

  8. Member Companies. Innovative Medicines Canada. Retrieved April 14, 2021, from https://web.archive.org/web/20210414133725/http://innovativemedicines.ca/about/ ↩︎

  9. 2019 Annual Report. Innovative Medicines Canada. Retrieved August 30, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220830083608mp_/https://www.imcannualreport.ca/download/2019AnnualReviewEN.pdf ↩︎

  10. Brophy, E. (2021, November 23). IMC introduces new Chair, Cole Pinnow. Innovative Medicines Canada. http://archive.today/2022.04.28-004838/http://innovativemedicines.ca/cole-pinnow-board-chair/ ↩︎