Sponsors One of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies , our business is focused on turning good ideas into innovative, effective medicines that make a real difference in important areas of healthcare. Pfizer Inc. The world's largest research-based pharmaceutical company. Pfizer Inc discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets leading prescription medicines for humans and animals and many of the world's best-known consumer brands. GlaxoSmithKline a leading healthcare company that helps people to do more, feel better and live longer. Find out how GlaxoSmithKline improves health and quality of life. Discover more about GlaxoSmithKline's research and development, community partnerships and public health programmes. At Schering-Plough, we aspire to earn the trust of doctors, patients and customers by providing a steady flow of innovative, science-based medicines and services that improve the health and well-being of people around the world. Consumer health care products and services from Johnson & Johnson. Your family's health and well-being is our passion. CIHR is Canada's major federal funding agency for health research. Its objective is to excel, according to internationally accepted standards of scientific excellence, in the creation of new knowledge and its translation into improved health for Canadians, more effective health services and products and a strengthened Canadian health care system. Quebec Pain Research Network. The mission of the Network is to contribute through basic, clinical and evaluative and epidemiological research to the improvement of the quality of life of Quebecers who suffer from pain. The Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain and its affiliated centres are pleased to offer several grant and funding opportunities for both trainees and researchers alike. Grants and programs are offered in both areas of clinical and basic research.   Copyright © 2009. All Rights Reserved.

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