Pharmaceuticals: Boehringer Ingelheim will exit virology research, close Montreal site
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Adding to the pharmaceutical industry’s exodus from the Montreal region, Boehringer Ingelheim is closing its Laval, Quebec, site as part of its exit from virology research. The move, which will cost the region 170 jobs, follows earlier closures of R&D sites in the area by Merck & Co., Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi, and AstraZeneca. Boehringer says the decision to discontinue virology research comes as the field becomes more competitive. “The demands for medical innovation are shifting significantly due to the availability of new medications and also the emphasis on prevention through vaccination, a field in which Boehringer Ingelheim is not active,” says Michel Pairet, the company’s R&D head. The firm spent $36 million to expand the Laval site in 2008. The move is another blow to Montreal’s R&D community, which has seen a string of pharmaceutical companies end research activities in the region. Merck was the first to shutter a ...
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.780 | 0.722 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".