Insider Brief
- IonQ and the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine formed an investment partnership to accelerate advanced therapy development using hybrid quantum and quantum-AI technologies.
- The collaboration positions IonQ as the core technology partner across CCRM’s global network and will launch initial quantum-biotech projects in Canada and Sweden in 2026.
- The agreement expands IonQ’s broader European strategy, following recent partnerships and acquisitions in Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
PRESS RELEASE — IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), the world’s leading quantum company, today announced an investment partnership with the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM) to accelerate next-generation therapeutic development using hybrid quantum and quantum-AI technologies. The partnership includes an investment commitment into CCRM’s new quantum-biotech initiatives and establishes IonQ as the core technology partner across CCRM’s global network of advanced therapy hubs.
With more than 100,000 square feet of good manufacturing practice (GMP) facilities, 300+ scientific staff and a global network of academic and industry partners, CCRM is one of the world’s leading accelerators for advanced therapies. CCRM was established in 2011 in Toronto, Canada, to realize the promise of regenerative medicine and deliver durable treatments, and even cures, for the world’s most debilitating chronic diseases. CCRM’s extensive global network of academic researchers, industry partners, and investors will work closely with IonQ to revolutionize medicine and provide unmatched computational advantages to its members.
“IonQ’s quantum technologies are poised to reshape industries, and health care is one of the most exciting frontiers,” states Niccolo de Masi, Chairman and CEO of IonQ. “Together with CCRM and its global partners, we will identify, test, and deploy breakthrough applications that will transform therapeutic development, biomanufacturing, and delivery for patients across the globe.”
This collaboration will initially focus on areas including bioprocess optimization, disease-modeling workflows, and quantum enhanced simulation to support the design and manufacturing of advanced therapies. By bringing together CCRM’s expertise in next-generation therapeutic innovation and IonQ’s unparalleled leadership in cutting-edge quantum technologies, the partnership aims to address some of the most pressing challenges in health care and life sciences. Initial projects will be launched in both Canada and Sweden in 2026.
“By combining our strengths,” says Michael May, President and CEO of CCRM, “we are uniquely positioned to unlock solutions that were previously beyond reach. Just as CCRM focused on biomanufacturing 15 years ago, this frontier-of-science collaboration will help accelerate the discovery and application of advanced therapies, with the potential to make a real difference for patients worldwide. We are very excited by this opportunity and collaboration with IonQ.”
“Like Canada, Sweden has identified advanced therapies and quantum computing as areas of high priority for development and commercialization,” says Fredrik Wessberg, CEO of CCRM Nordic. “This partnership will help demonstrate the value of the CCRM network of hubs, and the need for global collaboration to deliver complex health care modalities to patients globally.”
Today’s announcement builds on IonQ’s recent collaboration with AstraZeneca to establish a new quantum application development center in Sweden within AstraZeneca’s BioVenture Hub. Earlier this year IonQ announced that with the acquisition of Oxford Ionics it would expand R&D and quantum engineering teams in Oxford. IonQ also established a long-term partnership with Einride in Stockholm, Sweden in April 2025. In 2024, IonQ established its first European Innovation Center at QuantumBasel in Switzerland, and the company completed its acquisition of Switzerland-based IDQ.
