Strategic Industries Life Sciences

Life Sciences

The speed at which the world is adapting to new technologies in bioscience is staggering. With a large part of New Brunswick’s current and future industry depending on the living things around us, we pay attention to applied research projects and companies dedicated to developing global-shaping innovations relating to:

  • Bio-medical engineering
  • Bio-pharmaceuticals
  • Bio-informatics
  • Genomics
  • Bio-products
  • Crop science and bio-pesticides
  • Breeding and pest management
  • Aquaculture and fish health
  • Forest protection and forest improvement

If your proposition relates to life science, but doesn’t clearly fit with the above examples, please contact us so we can assess it and give you feedback about its eligibility. If it doesn’t fit with us, we can make suggestions about other funding sources.

Marc E. Surette, PhD

One of the richest sources of Omega-3 is codfish. But getting it from cod just isn’t sustainable anymore. Dr. Marc Surette at the Université de Moncton found a way to source it from plants that can be grown right here in New Brunswick…

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