TY - JOUR T1 - After slow start, project to channel drug company funds to universities builds steam JF - Canadian Medical Association Journal JO - CMAJ SP - 318 LP - 320 VL - 155 IS - 3 AU - P. Berkowitz Y1 - 1996/08/01 UR - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/155/3/318.abstract N2 - Drug companies appear to have been listening when researchers began complaining about their lack of participation in the MRC/PMAC Health Program, for the 30-month-old project appears to have taken on new life. It is designed to increase collaboration between university and pharmaceutical industry researchers by directing more of the industry's growing investment in Canada through the MRC's peer-review process. By mid-May, program commitments stood at $60 million. ER -