Member Directory
Our members are the backbone of the Life Sciences sector.
Life Sciences Nova Scotia’s member community is comprised of a diverse group of life sciences innovators, research institutions, government agencies, investors, students and partners who offer a variety of support services.
Our members, along with our vital stakeholders, contribute significantly to the development of Nova Scotia’s Life Sciences sector.
NovaResp develops patient-specific and breath-specific breathing support devices for patients with sleep apnea. The company’s
lead product, BreatheAlong, determines the respiratory health of sleep apnea patients and provides personalized breathing support. Using this technology on positive airway pressure (PAP) machines will save patients from strokes and heart attacks and reduce health-care costs.
Precision BioLogic
Medical Technologies
902.468.6422
902.468.6421
140 Eileen Stubbs Avenue, Dartmouth, NS B3B 0A9
Precision BioLogic’s principal focus is in the field of hemostasis for which we developed CRYOcheck™, a line of specialized
high-quality frozen plasmas, reagents and integrated test kits used in the assessment of coagulation disorders. From our facility in Dartmouth, we currently serve more than 1,000 labs throughout North America with direct overnight delivery, and work with distribution partners to sell to customers overseas.
In conjunction with our laboratory, biotech and pharmaceutical partners, we’re also developing new products to improve patient outcomes by addressing current and future challenges in the diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring of disease.
Reach Orthopaedics is developing a shoulder implant to treat patients suffering from massive irreparable rotator cuff tears.
Founded by orthopaedic surgeons, the novel device design restores shoulder function — increasing mobility and strength, while eliminating chronic pain. Where current treatment options are limited with high failure rates, Reach Orthopaedics aims to become the surgical standard of care.
ABK Biomedical Incorporated
Medical Technologies
902-483-6689
ABK Biomedical Inc., Innovacorp Enterprise Centre, 1344 Summer St, Halifax, NS, B3H 0A8
ABK Biomedical Incorporated is a new medical device company co-founded by Materials Scientists, Dr. Daniel Boyd and Dr. Sharon
Kehoe and an Interventional Radiologist, Dr. Bob Abraham. The company is driven by the unmet need to develop integrated devices to simplify clinical procedures performed by interventional radiologists. Initially, the company is particularly interested in uterine fibroid embolization (UFE). The founders have developed a novel radiopaque embolic agent that will allow UFE to be performed more efficiently and in a safer manner. ABK Biomedical will focus on bringing this technology to market while fostering development of additional technologies that will be added to ABK’s product pipeline.
Myomar Molecular is a start-up company that is creating solutions to monitor, prevent, and assess muscle degeneration. Their
mandate is to provide a personalized approach to monitor muscle health for improving quality of life and disease state.
Brain Repair Centre
Medical Technologies
902 494 4010
Brain Repair Centre, Dalhousie University, Life Sciences Research Institute, 1348 Summer Street, Halifax NS B3H 4R2, Canada
The Brain Repair Centre (BRC) is a multidisciplinary collaboration linking researchers and physicians specializing in treatments
and technologies in the field of brain repair. The goal is to avert, alleviate, and repair damage to the brain and spinal cord, and bring about normal neurological functions to patients suffering from brain disorders. The BRC integrates research expertise in stem cell biology, cognitive neuroscience, molecular neurobiology, pharmacology, imaging, neurophysiology, and animal behaviour. The BRC is also involved in a broad range of disorders including: cognitive disorders, epilepsy, ALS, Parkinson’s, dementia, MS, neurodegeneration, movement disorders, and vision.
Clinical Logistics Inc.
Medical Technologies
902.461.1300
902.466.6889
1 Research Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, B2Y 4M9
Clinical Logistics Inc. manufactures and produces clinical kits with custom specimen labels to bring efficiency and ease to a
laboratory environment. CLI supports single and multiple sites Phase (1) and (2a) clinical trials. CLI can procure study supplies, assemble clinical kits, print customized specimen collection / storage labels, produce specimen shipping logs, and coordinate / monitor specimen shipping. These clearly identified, pre-labled kits ease the burden for personnel at the clinical sites while minimizing collection related data discrepancy.
Allumiqs
CMDO/CRO Lab Services
902-442-4664
1344 Summer Street, Halifax, NS B3H 0A8
Allumiqs is a CRO solutions partner for biotech and biopharma, bringing together LC-MS and multiomics expertise, along with data
analytics and insights, to save you time and money in your development pipeline. Our team is your dedicated innovation collaborator, working with you to advance your discoveries with on-demand or customized solutions.
In the pursuit of happiness, health is a necessity.
Wait times for specialist consultation in Nova Scotia are unacceptably long. This means that patients suffer needlessly. Medical
conditions can worsen while they wait to see specialists. The burden to care for these complex conditions falls entirely on family doctors. This is not fair.
Virtual Hallway is a solution. By providing an efficient and rapid system of specialist consultation, Virtual Hallway:
· Provides family doctors with rapid advice
· Allows for more streamlined approach to investigation and treatment
· Avoids unnecessary delays and suffering for patients
· Provides compensation to physician parties
Virtual Hallway is a physician owned and operated service, led by psychiatrists Drs. Jacob Cookey, Luke Napier, Daniel Rasic and health care innovator Justin Hartlen. The service started based on their observation that patients were waiting far too long for specialist consultation and that these delays were leading to more chronic, and disabling conditions. In speaking with family physicians, they saw that these doctors were trying their best against a system that was inefficient, and slow to change. The idea was that specialist input earlier on in a course of illness could streamline a person’s treatment, and optimize their care.
Our vision is to move the needle in breast cancer screening through precision breast health technologies.
Densitas supports
value-based care through advanced healthcare analytics powered by A.I. at the patient, clinic, and system levels.
Our solutions provide on-demand insights for tailored risk-based management of patients and enable healthcare administrators to monitor clinical, quality, and operational performance indicators.
Our platform is uniquely designed to be fully PACS-centric by operating on the routinely archived standard DICOM images that radiologists review and supports point-of-care and retrospective processing of mammograms.
B-Line is an AI-powered contact tracing and facility management platform that helps building owners and employers prevent the
spread of infectious disease in the workplace by collecting highly accurate location data that identifies possible chains of transmission. B-Line’s data enables building owners and organizations to assess the risk of their portfolio and make data-driven decisions to protect building occupants and ensure tenant safety. Tenants are also able to instantly communicate directly with building managers through real-time messaging and in-app surveys to ensure occupant satisfaction and confidence in the safety of their workplace.
Beyond the data needed for infectious disease prevention, B-Line enhances a property’s connectivity and speeds the path to green building certification by enabling building owners and organizations to quickly and easily collect occupant comfort and commuting data through automated mobility reporting and in-app surveys.
Product Services
– Contact tracing and emergency alert platform
– Predictive analytics and outbreak assessment tool
– Real-time capacity monitoring and access control system
– Transportation demand management
– Automated environmental reporting
NovaResp develops patient-specific and breath-specific breathing support devices for patients with sleep apnea. The company’s
lead product, BreatheAlong, determines the respiratory health of sleep apnea patients and provides personalized breathing support. Using this technology on positive airway pressure (PAP) machines will save patients from strokes and heart attacks and reduce health-care costs.
Precision BioLogic
Medical Technologies
902.468.6422
902.468.6421
140 Eileen Stubbs Avenue, Dartmouth, NS B3B 0A9
Precision BioLogic’s principal focus is in the field of hemostasis for which we developed CRYOcheck™, a line of specialized
high-quality frozen plasmas, reagents and integrated test kits used in the assessment of coagulation disorders. From our facility in Dartmouth, we currently serve more than 1,000 labs throughout North America with direct overnight delivery, and work with distribution partners to sell to customers overseas.
In conjunction with our laboratory, biotech and pharmaceutical partners, we’re also developing new products to improve patient outcomes by addressing current and future challenges in the diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring of disease.
Reach Orthopaedics is developing a shoulder implant to treat patients suffering from massive irreparable rotator cuff tears.
Founded by orthopaedic surgeons, the novel device design restores shoulder function — increasing mobility and strength, while eliminating chronic pain. Where current treatment options are limited with high failure rates, Reach Orthopaedics aims to become the surgical standard of care.
ABK Biomedical Incorporated
Medical Technologies
902-483-6689
ABK Biomedical Inc., Innovacorp Enterprise Centre, 1344 Summer St, Halifax, NS, B3H 0A8
ABK Biomedical Incorporated is a new medical device company co-founded by Materials Scientists, Dr. Daniel Boyd and Dr. Sharon
Kehoe and an Interventional Radiologist, Dr. Bob Abraham. The company is driven by the unmet need to develop integrated devices to simplify clinical procedures performed by interventional radiologists. Initially, the company is particularly interested in uterine fibroid embolization (UFE). The founders have developed a novel radiopaque embolic agent that will allow UFE to be performed more efficiently and in a safer manner. ABK Biomedical will focus on bringing this technology to market while fostering development of additional technologies that will be added to ABK’s product pipeline.
Myomar Molecular is a start-up company that is creating solutions to monitor, prevent, and assess muscle degeneration. Their
mandate is to provide a personalized approach to monitor muscle health for improving quality of life and disease state.
Brain Repair Centre
Medical Technologies
902 494 4010
Brain Repair Centre, Dalhousie University, Life Sciences Research Institute, 1348 Summer Street, Halifax NS B3H 4R2, Canada
The Brain Repair Centre (BRC) is a multidisciplinary collaboration linking researchers and physicians specializing in treatments
and technologies in the field of brain repair. The goal is to avert, alleviate, and repair damage to the brain and spinal cord, and bring about normal neurological functions to patients suffering from brain disorders. The BRC integrates research expertise in stem cell biology, cognitive neuroscience, molecular neurobiology, pharmacology, imaging, neurophysiology, and animal behaviour. The BRC is also involved in a broad range of disorders including: cognitive disorders, epilepsy, ALS, Parkinson’s, dementia, MS, neurodegeneration, movement disorders, and vision.
Clinical Logistics Inc.
Medical Technologies
902.461.1300
902.466.6889
1 Research Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, B2Y 4M9
Clinical Logistics Inc. manufactures and produces clinical kits with custom specimen labels to bring efficiency and ease to a
laboratory environment. CLI supports single and multiple sites Phase (1) and (2a) clinical trials. CLI can procure study supplies, assemble clinical kits, print customized specimen collection / storage labels, produce specimen shipping logs, and coordinate / monitor specimen shipping. These clearly identified, pre-labled kits ease the burden for personnel at the clinical sites while minimizing collection related data discrepancy.
Allumiqs
CMDO/CRO Lab Services
902-442-4664
1344 Summer Street, Halifax, NS B3H 0A8
Allumiqs is a CRO solutions partner for biotech and biopharma, bringing together LC-MS and multiomics expertise, along with data
analytics and insights, to save you time and money in your development pipeline. Our team is your dedicated innovation collaborator, working with you to advance your discoveries with on-demand or customized solutions.
In the pursuit of happiness, health is a necessity.
Wait times for specialist consultation in Nova Scotia are unacceptably long. This means that patients suffer needlessly. Medical
conditions can worsen while they wait to see specialists. The burden to care for these complex conditions falls entirely on family doctors. This is not fair.
Virtual Hallway is a solution. By providing an efficient and rapid system of specialist consultation, Virtual Hallway:
· Provides family doctors with rapid advice
· Allows for more streamlined approach to investigation and treatment
· Avoids unnecessary delays and suffering for patients
· Provides compensation to physician parties
Virtual Hallway is a physician owned and operated service, led by psychiatrists Drs. Jacob Cookey, Luke Napier, Daniel Rasic and health care innovator Justin Hartlen. The service started based on their observation that patients were waiting far too long for specialist consultation and that these delays were leading to more chronic, and disabling conditions. In speaking with family physicians, they saw that these doctors were trying their best against a system that was inefficient, and slow to change. The idea was that specialist input earlier on in a course of illness could streamline a person’s treatment, and optimize their care.
Our vision is to move the needle in breast cancer screening through precision breast health technologies.
Densitas supports
value-based care through advanced healthcare analytics powered by A.I. at the patient, clinic, and system levels.
Our solutions provide on-demand insights for tailored risk-based management of patients and enable healthcare administrators to monitor clinical, quality, and operational performance indicators.
Our platform is uniquely designed to be fully PACS-centric by operating on the routinely archived standard DICOM images that radiologists review and supports point-of-care and retrospective processing of mammograms.
B-Line is an AI-powered contact tracing and facility management platform that helps building owners and employers prevent the
spread of infectious disease in the workplace by collecting highly accurate location data that identifies possible chains of transmission. B-Line’s data enables building owners and organizations to assess the risk of their portfolio and make data-driven decisions to protect building occupants and ensure tenant safety. Tenants are also able to instantly communicate directly with building managers through real-time messaging and in-app surveys to ensure occupant satisfaction and confidence in the safety of their workplace.
Beyond the data needed for infectious disease prevention, B-Line enhances a property’s connectivity and speeds the path to green building certification by enabling building owners and organizations to quickly and easily collect occupant comfort and commuting data through automated mobility reporting and in-app surveys.
Product Services
– Contact tracing and emergency alert platform
– Predictive analytics and outbreak assessment tool
– Real-time capacity monitoring and access control system
– Transportation demand management
– Automated environmental reporting