NAICS Industry group 6215 · in Ambulatory health care services
Federal grants for medical and diagnostic laboratories
Programs that fund recipients the department coded with this industry. Departments record an industry code on about one agreement in ten, mostly business programs, so this is a guide to which programs fund businesses like yours, not a full count.
- Total value
- $223M
- Agreements
- 187
- To named organizations
- 175
- $147M
- To individuals or unnamed
- 12
- $76.4M; never named here
Federal grants and contributions, agreements starting Jan 2006 to Oct 2026, each counted once at its latest amended value. Source: Treasury Board proactive disclosure, published October 11, 2026.
Programs that fund this industry
The programs that put the most money here.
| Program | Department | Agreements | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Life Sciences Fund Contributions | Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | 7 | $140M |
| SIF Stream 4 - Demonstration | Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | 1 | $49M |
| Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms | National Research Council Canada | 71 | $11.9M |
| Life Sciences Fund | Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | 10 | $10.7M |
| Regional Economic Growth through Innovation | Western Economic Diversification Canada | 4 | $2M |
| Business Scale-up and Productivity (BSUP) | Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario | 2 | $1.8M |
| Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program | National Research Council Canada | 50 | $1.5M |
| Industrial Research Assistance Program | National Research Council Canada | 10 | $1.5M |
| Canadian International Innovation Program | National Research Council Canada | 3 | $1.3M |
| Regional Economic Growth through Innovation | Prairies Economic Development Canada | 1 | $1M |
| REGI - Business Scale-up and Productivity | Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency | 5 | $966K |
| Regional Relief and Recovery Fund (RRRF) – Direct | Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario | 2 | $511K |
| REGI - Productivity and Business Skills | Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency | 7 | $325K |
| Innovative Solutions Canada | National Research Council Canada | 1 | $267K |
| Regional Relief and Recovery Fund (RRRF) – For Profit | Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario | 1 | $214K |
| REGI - Regional Innovation Ecosystems (Jobs and Growth) | Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency | 1 | $100K |
| CanExport SME | National Research Council Canada | 5 | $86K |
| REGI - Strategic Growth Initiative (SGI) | Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency | 1 | $50K |
| CanExport Innovation | National Research Council Canada | 2 | $29K |
| CanExport | National Research Council Canada | 1 | $25K |
| Industrial Research Assistance Program – Green Youth Employment Program | National Research Council Canada | 2 | $20K |
Top recipients
Organizations with the most funding.
| Recipient | Agreements | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Sunnybrook Research Institute | 1 | $49M |
| Avivo Biomedical Inc. | 2 | $22M |
| Applied Pharmaceutical Innovation | 1 | $21.9M |
| Qidni labs Inc. | 1 | $12.5M |
| Northern RNA Inc. | 1 | $6M |
| STEMCELL Technologies Canada Inc. | 1 | $2.8M |
| Canadian Health Solutions Inc. | 2 | $2.3M |
| Ottawa Hospital Research Institute | 2 | $2.1M |
| Genvira Biosciences Inc. | 2 | $1.8M |
| Cerebra Health Inc. | 6 | $1.7M |
| Cerebra Medical Ltd. | 3 | $1.6M |
| McMaster University | 2 | $1.6M |
| The Governing Council of the University of Toronto | 1 | $1.6M |
| Université de Montréal | 1 | $1.6M |
| The University of British Columbia | 1 | $1.6M |
| Sequence Bioinformatics Inc. | 2 | $1.2M |
| The Governors of the University of Alberta | 1 | $1.1M |
| CardiAI Inc. | 3 | $1.1M |
| BioAro Inc | 7 | $935K |
| University of Ottawa | 1 | $775K |
| MJMG Holdings Inc. | 2 | $648K |
| Conception inc. | 6 | $647K |
| Clinical Logistics Inc. | 6 | $618K |
| Zennea Technologies Inc. | 2 | $600K |
| Diagnostics Biochem Canada Inc. | 4 | $585K |
Plus 12 agreements ($76.4M) to individuals, sole proprietors and recipients this site does not name. They count in every total above. Why
By year
Agreements by the year they started.
| Year | Agreements | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | $305K |
| 2017 | 3 | $725K |
| 2018 | 11 | $2.1M |
| 2019 | 17 | $3.7M |
| 2020 | 24 | $51.2M |
| 2021 | 30 | $4.3M |
| 2022 | 17 | $1.7M |
| 2023 | 20 | $2.6M |
| 2024 | 21 | $3.2M |
| 2025 | 19 | $91.8M |
| 2026 | 24 | $61.8M |
By type of recipient
As the department classified the recipient.
| Recipient type | Agreements | Total |
|---|---|---|
| For-profit organizations | 163 | $136M |
| Not-for-profit organizations and charities | 3 | $77.1M |
| Academia | 8 | $8.5M |
| Not stated by the department | 13 | $1.4M |
Latest agreements
| Start | Recipient | Program | What for | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | Wax-it Histology Services Inc. | Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment ProgramNational Research Council Canada | Youth - TechnicianContribution | $30,000 |
| Apr 2026 | Conception inc. | Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment ProgramNational Research Council Canada | YOUTH - Technician in the Animal Reproduction Laboratory Analysis Department.Contribution | $30,000 |
| Apr 2026 | Yellowbird Diagnostics Inc. | Industrial Research Assistance ProgramNational Research Council Canada | Developing a Scalable Precursor for Progressing Automated Radiotracer Kit CreationContribution | $100,000 |
| Apr 2026 | Yellowbird Diagnostics Inc. | Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment ProgramNational Research Council Canada | YOUTH - Quality Assurance for Radiotracer ManufacturingContribution | $30,000 |
| Apr 2026 | Sanoliving Inc | Industrial Research Assistance ProgramNational Research Council Canada | sanoLiving Clinical Decision Support Framework (CDSF) and Privacy Preserving InfrastructureContribution | $279,975 |
| Apr 2026 | Sanoliving Inc | CanExportNational Research Council Canada | Contribution | $25,000 |
| Apr 2026 | NodeAI Diagnostics Corp | Industrial Research Assistance ProgramNational Research Council Canada | Development of NodeAI Foundational Platform for Scalable Clinical AI Model Deployment and ManagementContribution | $125,000 |
| Apr 2026 | DigiBiomics Inc. | Industrial Research Assistance ProgramNational Research Council Canada | LungSense: Experimental Development and Validation of a Non-Contact Respiratory Monitoring PlatformContribution | $75,000 |
| Apr 2026 | BioAro Inc | Canadian International Innovation ProgramNational Research Council Canada | CIIP Taiwan - Integration of PanOmiQ on FPGA ChipContribution | $515,000 |
| Apr 2026 | BioAro Inc | Industrial Research Assistance ProgramNational Research Council Canada | Participation in the Canadian co-innovation mission to the Eureka GIS and Swiss Biotech Day in Switzerland – May 2026Contribution | $5,000 |
| Mar 2026 | BioSport Health Inc. | Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment ProgramNational Research Council Canada | Youth-BioSport -GenomicsContribution | $30,000 |
| Feb 2026 | STEMCELL Technologies Canada Inc. | Life Sciences Fund ContributionsInnovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | Contribution | $2,829,286 |
| Feb 2026 | Metabolomics Innovations Inc. | Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment ProgramNational Research Council Canada | Development of a Curated Microplastic (MP) Reference Library and Automated Imaging/ML AlgorithmsContribution | $29,880 |
| Jan 2026 | University of Saskatchewan | Life Sciences FundInnovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | Grant | $465,000 |
| Jan 2026 | University of Ottawa | Life Sciences FundInnovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | Grant | $775,000 |
| Jan 2026 | The University of British Columbia | Life Sciences FundInnovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | Grant | $1,550,000 |
| Jan 2026 | Université de Montréal | Life Sciences FundInnovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | Grant | $1,550,000 |
| Jan 2026 | McMaster University | Life Sciences FundInnovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | Grant | $775,000 |
| Jan 2026 | The Governors of the University of Alberta | Life Sciences FundInnovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | Grant | $1,085,000 |
| Jan 2026 | The Governing Council of the University of Toronto | Life Sciences FundInnovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | Grant | $1,550,000 |
| Jan 2026 | Applied Pharmaceutical Innovation | Life Sciences Fund ContributionsInnovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | Contribution | $21,928,275 |
| Jan 2026 | Northern RNA Inc. | Life Sciences Fund ContributionsInnovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | Contribution | $6,037,700 |
| Jan 2026 | Avivo Biomedical Inc. | Life Sciences Fund ContributionsInnovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | Contribution | $10,994,000 |
| Jan 2026 | Avivo Biomedical Inc. | Life Sciences Fund ContributionsInnovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | Contribution | $10,994,000 |
| Dec 2025 | Qidni labs Inc. | Life Sciences Fund ContributionsInnovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | Contribution | $12,500,000 |