Lab2Market is a nationwide program that helps brilliant minds in graduate programs and postdoctoral programs reimagine their futures. Throughout the program, they’ll discover their passion for entrepreneurship, build an entrepreneurial skillset, and connect with the network they need to turn their ideas into successful businesses.

Through some of Canada’s leading academic institutions, Lab2Market is a head-start for Canadian research-based ventures.

Located at 4 Alberta institutions ( U of A, U of C, U of L, Concordia)

CDL is a global startup program for seed-stage, science-based companies. The program employs an objectives-based mentoring process by a selected group of accomplished entrepreneurs, angel investors, economists, and scientists.

CDL-Rockies is located in Calgary, Canada at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. Calgary is one of Canada’s fastest-growing, most entrepreneurial and innovative cities, with the highest number of patents filed per capita in Canada.

As the epicenter of the Prairies, CDL-Rockies is home to a Prime stream as well as two specialized streams: Energy and AgriFood. CDL-Rockies brings together many of the region’s most experienced entrepreneurs, investors, and scientists from diverse fields including energy evolution, healthcare, software and hardware, and AgTech. CDL startups work with these mentors to sharpen objectives, prioritize time and resources, raise capital, and engage with experts working on the frontiers of research.

SPARK Alberta, powered by the Hunter Hub for Entrepreneurial Thinking, supports the advancement of digital health innovations at Alberta’s post-secondary institutions into clinical impact. We provide industry advice, education, and life science ecosystem connections to faculty, researchers, and graduate students for up to one year in our hybrid program format.

The Northern Alberta Primary Care Research & Learning Network (NAPCReN) is a family physician and multidisciplinary collaboration of researchers and clinicians in primary care. We are working together to improve patient care by evaluating our practices and addressing questions that arise from our clinical practice.

NAPCReN supports quality improvement and research relevant to the primary care setting, with a wide range of studies on topics such as chronic condition surveillance, management, prevention, and screening.

SAPCReN is a practice-based research network founded in 2007 by Dr. Neil Drummond. The network brings together over 300 members who are interested in primary care research, including clinicians and researchers who work collaboratively to address topics that are timely and important to primary care practice. SAPCReN and its staff are hosted in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Calgary.

SAPCReN offers different ways for its members to learn about and become involved in research, such as through our monthly SAPCReN Scoop newsletter and lunch visits to primary care clinics in Calgary and southern Alberta. Our research team can also help to answer research-related questions and offer support for some research tasks, such as study protocol review, methodological advice, research ethics submissions, analysis and manuscript review.

Global TB Laboratory Operations Group (TB-LOG) focuses on operational consistency, laboratory workflows, and real-world diagnostic implementation to support reliable laboratory performance across clinical research and diagnostic settings. TB-LOG promotes operational visibility across the diagnostic process, recognizing that diagnostic results are shaped not only by technologies, but also by how laboratory activities are executed in practice.

EPICORE is a clinical trials and health services research centre.

EPICORE is involved in the full range of activities necessary for the conduct of clinical trials, including protocol design, case report forms design, database creation, study management, implementation, site coordination (for multicentre trials), data management, and analysis.

Building from Alberta’s strengths in health sciences, ADEPT brings innovators together with diagnostics experts and clinical end-users to align new technologies with unmet needs. ADEPT accelerates diagnostics translation through access to health system resources, infrastructure, and expertise to guide innovators throughout the health innovation continuum.

Responding to the need innovators have for clinical samples and related data to test, validate and scale their technologies, ADEPT was founded to create access to these key resources. Recognizing that Alberta has a strong and vibrant research culture, and world-class laboratory diagnostics and research infrastructure, we set out to leverage these resources to the benefit of our economy and the health and wellness of people around the world. Our experts are internationally recognized, and they take pride in serving Alberta’s renowned health system and supporting quality diagnosis and patient care.

Smart Technology (ST) Innovations is a non-profit health technology development center for advancing health innovations from discovery to market. We are located at the University of Alberta (UofA) campus. ST Innovations offers health innovation companies, entrepreneurs, and innovators in Canada customized preclinical services, engineering, and connection to clinical expertise. We aim to remove barriers inherent in the health technology development process and allow for early innovations to be better positioned for commercialization stages of development and entering the marketplace.