Canada’s minister of industry met with executives from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in New York City on March 2 to discuss expanding collaboration, his office says.
“They discussed how we can collaborat[e] in multiple areas to expand our growing biomanufacturing and life sciences sector,” said Laurie B. Bouchard, spokesperson to Minister François-Philippe Champagne.
“New areas of innovation that the company is engaged in was also one of the topic[s] discussed, and also how their emerging technologies could support the efforts of our Biomanufacturing and Life Sciences Strategy.”
Bouchard did not indicate who Champagne met with.
The minister released a video of himself on Twitter where he is seen entering Pfizer’s building as well as greeting and meeting with personnel….