The Alberta Life Sciences (Medical/Health) directory is an industry resource for information regarding life sciences organisations, incubators and centres supporting innovators and startup companies in Alberta. Listings for health tech accelerator programs and several Alberta life sciences companies can be found below.
Life Sciences Organisations
Applied Pharmaceutical Innovation (API)
NOT-FOR-PROFIT INSTITUTION
Applied Pharmaceutical Innovation (API) is an Alberta-based not-for-profit institution with a knowledgeable interdisciplinary team that collaborates with industry, leading experts (in academia and industry), and post-secondaries to empower commercial development in the Canadian life sciences industry. Overall, API accelerates the drug development and commercialisation processes by providing the support (expertise, services, and infrastructure) of a full pharmaceutical company to innovators/academic researchers who want to launch their ideas into the real world, and connects industry to the services they need for commercial success. More information regarding API can be found by visiting the following links:
- API Homepage: https://appliedpharma.ca/
- For Industry: To book a consultation with API please visit: https://appliedpharma.ca/for-industry/
- For Innovators/Academic Researchers: To book a consultation with API please visit: https://appliedpharma.ca/for-innovators/
Health Cities
NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION
Health Cities is a Canadian not-for-profit corporation that works with clinicians, innovators, philanthropic organisations, and companies to develop new models of care to drive better health outcomes and economic growth in the health sector. Through its engagement with these various stakeholders in health and health industry, Health Cities creates the collaborative environment to enable innovators to co-develop, validate, adopt, and showcase the capabilities of Alberta’s broader innovation ecosystem. The ultimate goal of this collaboration is to solve current challenges facing the health system by implementing a novel approach: transforming innovations from Alberta’s health sector into solutions that have commercial application and global relevance, adopting them for impact locally and scaling them for export to global markets. To learn more about Health Cities, please visit: https://healthcities.ca/about-health-cities/.
Alberta
BioAlberta is a member-driven association that represents and promotes the province’s vibrant and diverse life sciences industry. Through its many partnerships and collaborations, BioAlberta is dedicated to promoting Alberta’s life science sectors, locally, nationally and internationally. To learn more about BioAlberta, please visit: https://www.bioalberta.com/about.
Edmonton
The Health Innovation Hub at the University of Alberta is the community incubator for innovators and entrepreneurs working towards better human health outcomes. This facility helps health innovators and entrepreneurs achieve commercialization success for their health and life science innovations by providing programming support, access to space and training resources, coaching and consulting support and connections to peers and advisors. To learn more, please visit: https://www.ualberta.ca/medicine/research/health-innovation-hub/index.html.
Calgary
The Life Sciences Innovation Hub at the University of Calgary is a facility designed to build and grow promising life science-based companies. Activated by Innovate Calgary, the LSI Hub is a place where students, researchers, startups and growing companies can access a variety of resources to advance their life science-based company. This facility helps deliver commercially-viable products and services to market by providing access to infrastructure, equipment, expertise and startup support services. To learn more, please visit: https://innovatecalgary.com/life-sciences-innovation-hub/about-the-lsi-hub/.
Life Sciences Accelerators
The Plug and Play: Alberta Health Tech Accelerator Program connects Alberta’s health technology startups to a vast network of global corporations and investors to develop strategies to accelerate business growth and bring innovative health technology to the market faster. To qualify for this program, the startup company’s health technology product must “challenge clinical practices, improve data analytics, and enhance the patient journey across the continuum of care”. Ultimately, the aim of this program is to build a digital health economy to benefit the health of Albertans. More details regarding the program can be found by visiting the following links:
Life Sciences Companies Listing
Edmonton:
SV Chembiotech is an innovative company specializing in novel design and synthesis of organic molecules to support and accelerate the drug discovery research of pharma and biotech companies. They adapt unique synthetic approaches and execute in robust ways for making complex molecules. Thus, the drug discovery process becomes more efficient, cost-effective while maintaining the highest standards of quality
Open Positions: R&D Scientist
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| Job Category | Biotech |
At ARCI our mission is to be your preferred partner for drug discovery and development. With our state of the art facilities, world class team, and decades of pharma R&D expertise, we are ready to help you realize the potential of your pharmaceutical breakthroughs.
Open Position: Research Scientist, Chemistry
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| Job Category | Pharma, Research |
Rane Pharmaceutical provides chemistry services for pharmaceutical and biotech.
Open Position: Business Development Manager
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| Job Category | Sales/Marketing |
DiveThru connects people with therapists, community and self-guided resources.
Open Position: Registered Psychologist
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| Job Category | Medical/Healthcare |
PulseMedica's medical device platform that enables treatment of eye diseases.
Open Position: Firmware Engineer - FGPA, Project Manager - Medical Device R&D
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| Job Category | Devices |
Drugbank is a drug knowledge platform that uses artificial intelligence to assist in providing structured drug data solutions and products.
Open Position: Product Manager
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| Job Category | Sales/Marketing |
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| Job Category | Manufacturing |
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MACH32 Inc. develops medical devices such as aerosol containment tents (ACT) and autoinjectors (SAVIOR and IMSAFE) – functional tools that save lives in urgent situations.
Job Opening: Product Development Manager
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| Job Category | Devices |
True Angle is an award-winning company that offers Mobili-T, a mobile health device that assists people with swallowing disorders to complete their therapy anytime and anywhere, while still being connected with a clinician. sEMG biofeedback, when used as an adjunct to swallowing exercise, has been shown to result in better functional outcomes than conventional therapy alone.
Job Opening: Product Manager
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| Job Category | Devices, Mobile/App Development |
Rehabtronics is a medical devices company based in Edmonton, Alberta. Rehabtronics are dedicated to helping therapists and patients get access to innovative and efficacy-driven technology for recovery. At Rehabtronics, they design, develop, manufacture, and validate their products in partnership with research institutions and initiatives around the world.
Open positions - Development Support Technologist
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| Job Category | Devices |
Tevosol Inc. (a Bridge to Life company) develops medical devices that support the preservation, evaluation, and increased utilization of donor organs for lifesaving transplants. The Project Support Manager will work directly with the product development team to support office administration and project management activities.
Open Job: Project Support Manager
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| Job Category | Devices |
We are an Academic Research Organization providing support for research and education into arthritis and focused on the growing field of personalized medicine. The people of CARE Arthritis have special expertise in the development and application of medical imaging and biomarkers to research and education. A soluble biomarker is a term used to refer to a protein or other substance that can be measured in bodily fluid, such as blood or urine, and whose concentration reflects the presence and/or severity of some disease state. An imaging biomarker such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) may also reflect the presence and/or severity of disease. Thus, in arthritis, biomarkers may indicate who will develop severe disease, who is most likely to respond to particular drugs, and why some patients do better than others.
Open Job: Software Developer
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| Job Category | Devices |
Statgo offers a billing service to ensure physicians are paid fairly and on time.
Open Jobs: Front End Developer
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| Job Category | Mobile/App Development |
Calgary:
Wave View Imaging - Non-intrusive microwave signal technology measures breast tissue properties.
Open Position: Embedded Software Developer
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| Job Category | Software Development |
Access Ehealth's software streamlines medical professional's operations.
Open Position: Development Manager
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| Job Category | Sales/Marketing |
CardiAI is a medical device research and development organization that is developing platform-based medical diagnostics devices and software.
Open Positions: Web Developer, Software Developer, Systems Consultant, others
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| Job Category | Software Development, Web Development |
Nimble Science offers real-time access to the small intestine via a passive capsule.
Open Position: Business Operations Lead
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| Job Category | Business Productivity |
Providence Therapeutics is a private Canadian biotechnology company that specializes in messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine therapies. The beginnings of Providence Therapeutics started with an undivided focus on oncology research and personalized cancer therapies.
Open positions - Senior Scientist
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| Job Category | Biotech |
Circle Cardiovascular Imaging provides AI-based software.
Open Position: Software QA Analyst, Software Development Manager
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| Job Category | Biotech |
Lumiio specializes in real-world data collection services that drive health outcomes.
Open Position: Intermediate Software Engineer
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| Job Category | Software Development |
XSENSOR Technologies Corporation utilizes intelligent dynamic sensing AI to enable precise measurements and high-quality visualizations for skin monitoring, human performance, safety testing, and more.
Open Position: Product Marketing Specialist
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OraQ is a clinical decision support system that relies on AI and machine learning to provide dental practices with a distinct competitive advantage.
Open Position: Full Stack Developer
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| Job Category | AI/ML |
PurposeMed connects patients with specialized clinicians for outpatient care.
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| Job Category | IoT/IIoT |
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Kent Imaging, located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is a leading innovator of medical technology, who designs, manufactures and markets imaging technology for limb preservation and surgical care.
Job Opening: Student Internship: C# Software Developer / QA Analyst
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| Job Category | Devices |
Strata Health offers one integrated platform to help care managers provide patients with better choices and outcomes while reducing costs and wasted time.
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| Job Category | Software Development |
eimhe (Pronounced Amy) offers a mental-health app to help people share feelings, chat with a virtual assistant, find a therapist and more.
Open Job: Senior Software Architect
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| Job Category | Mobile/App Development |
Numi offers a mobile application to provide medical services. It offers anyone the ability to order medical services, with leading edge UX design and a sophisticated back-end that is integrated with lab partners.
Open Job: SecOps Engineer
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| Job Category | Mobile/App Development |
For a full listing of exciting, innovative, and unique Alberta Life Sciences or Medical/Health Tech companies, CLICK HERE.