101 Top Biotechnology Startups and Companies in British Columbia

November 16, 2021
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This article showcases our top picks for the best British Columbia based Biotechnology companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Biotechnology industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

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Top British Columbia Biotechnology Startups

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AbCellera Biologics

AbCellera Biologics

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AbCellera Biologics is a biotechnology company that develops antibody therapeutics to improve patient outcomes.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

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Aurinia develops and commercializes therapies to treat targeted patient populations suffering from serious auto-immune diseases.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Zymeworks

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Zymeworks is a computational biotechnology company focused on optimizing therapeutic antibodies and other protein-based therapeutics.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Xenon Pharmaceuticals

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Xenon Pharmaceuticals operates as a neurology-focused biopharmaceutical company.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

The Valens Company

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The Valens Company is a biotechnology company focused on extraction and the commercialization of cannabinoid-based consumer products.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Arbutus Biopharma

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Arbutus Biopharma Corporation is a publicly-traded biopharmaceutical company.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Trait Biosciences

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Trait Biosciences is an emerging cannabis biotechnology company harnessing the best-in-class research scientists.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Aspect Biosystems

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Biotech company combining the power of microfluidics & 3D bioprinting to fuel medical research and development of bioprinted therapeutics

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

NervGen Pharma

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NervGen Pharma is a medicine company dedicated to creating solutions for the treatment of nerve damage and neurodegenerative diseases.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Virogin Biotech

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Virogin Biotech is an antineoplastic drug developer.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Sierra Oncology

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Sierra Oncology is a clinical-stage drug development company advancing targeted therapeutics for the treatment of patients with cancer.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

ESSA Pharma

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ESSA Pharma is a biotechnology company that develops new drugs for prostate cancer.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

SaNOtize

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SaNOtize is a biotech company using a platform technology for topical to treat upper respiratory and dermal infections.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Precision NanoSystem

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Precision NanoSystem provides Neuro9Kit for the study of gene function in neurons and glia cells.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Kintara Therapeutics

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Kintara Therapeutics is engaged in developing and commercializing therapies for the treatment of cancer patients.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Lungpacer Medical

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Lungpacer Medical is developing a novel therapeutic solution for preserving the integrity and strength of the diaphragm muscle

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

STEMCELL Technologies

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Tools to Isolate, Culture and Assay Cells

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

InMed Pharmaceuticals

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InMed Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage company developing cannabinoid-based pharmaceutical drug candidates.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Bright Minds Biosciences

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Bright Minds Biosciences is a biotech company that engages in the development of serotonergic therapeutics to treat mental health disorders.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

enGene

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enGene is a biotechnology company develops treatment for mucosal diseases through inducing therapeutic proteins of harmful proteins.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

ImmunoPrecise Antibodies

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ImmunoPrecise is a full-service, therapeutic antibody discovery company focused on the next generation of antibody discovery.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Emerald Health Therapeutics

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Emerald Health Therapeutics is a Health Canada Licensed Producer of medical cannabis.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Tryp Therapeutics

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Tryp Identifying and developing clinical-stage compounds for orphan diseases and other diseases with high unmet medical needs.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Ecoation Innovative Solutions

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For greenhouse growers of high value crops, Ecoation Innovation Solutions provides the earliest possible detection of pests

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Cardiome Pharma

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Cardiome Pharma Corp. is a specialty biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development and commercialization.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Zucara Therapeutics

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Zucara Therapeutics is developing the first once-daily therapeutic to prevent hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) in patients with diabetes.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Alpha9 Theranostics

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Alpha9 Theranostics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Algernon Pharmaceuticals

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Algernon Pharmaceuticals is a clinical stage drug development company.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Agrisoma Biosciences

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Agrisoma Biosciences is a research and development organization that facilitates product development in the agricultural crops sector.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Phoenix Molecular Designs

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Phoenix Molecular Designs is a biopharmaceutical company designing precise cancer therapeutics by targeting kinases.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Aquinox Pharmaceuticals

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Aquinox Pharmaceuticals develops and commercializes small molecule therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and inflammatory diseases.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

VoxCell BioInnovation

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Tissue Engineering, 3D Bioprinting, Bioink, Biotechnology, Drug Development Tools

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals

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Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals develops drugs for prevalent diseases through R&D and collaboration with medical experts.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Boreal Genomics

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Boreal develops research tools and diagnostic tests based on the monitoring of tumor mutations from cell-free DNA in plasma.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Novelion Therapeutics

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Novelion Therapeutics Inc, formerly QLT Inc., is a Canada-based biopharmaceutical company

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Bioasis Technologies

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Bioasis Technologies, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Vesalius Cardiovascular

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Vesalius Cardiovascular is a preclinical medical device company in the structural heart space.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Response Biomedical

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Response Biomedical develops, manufactures and markets rapid on-site diagnostic tests.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

iCo Therapeutics

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ICo Therapeutics is focused on the research and development of drug delivery technologies.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Nyoka Design Labs

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Nyoka Design Labs has developed the worlds first earth-friendly glow sticks

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Segra International

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Segra International is a plant biotechnology company that specializes in industrial-scale cannabis plant micropropagation.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Renaissance BioScience

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Renaissance BioScience, a biotechnology company, develops yeast-based proprietary technology solutions for food and beverage manufacturers.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Incisive Genetics

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Incisive Genetics is developing a delivery platform for genetic therapies.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Microbiome Insights Inc.

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Microbiome Insights is a global leader providing end-to-end services for microbiome DNA sequencing and state-of-the-art bioinformatics.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

BioHarvest Sciences

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BioHarvest Sciences produces and sells a food-based nutraceutical product called ViniaTM.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

RepliCel Life Sciences

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RepliCel Life Sciences is a regenerative medicine company using cell therapy products for healing tendinosis, aging, and pattern baldness.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Universal Ibogaine

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Universal Ibogaine is a Canadian company poised to address the opioid epidemic through proven plant medicine.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Abdera Therapeutics

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Abdera is an oncology company developing targeted alpha therapies (TATs) for patients with relapsed, refractory, and metastatic cancers.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Qu Biologics Inc.

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Qu Biologics develops site specific immunomodulators that aim to restore the body’s innate immune system to treat cancer.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Burcon Nutrascience Corporation

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Burcon NutraScience Corporation develops plant proteins and ingredients for use in the food and beverage industries in Canada.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Mangrove Water Technologies

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Mangrove Water Technologies is developing a technology that simultaneously converts saline waste water and gases into desalinated water.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Sirona Biochem

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Sirona Biochem is a biotechnology company developing diabetes therapeutics, as well as skin depigmenting and anti-aging agents.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Valens Groworks Corp

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Valens GroWorks is a biotechnology company specializes in cannabis formulation including CO2, ethanol, solvent-less & terpene extraction.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

ImStar Therapeutics

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ImStar Therapeutics is a biotech company that develops treatments for patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Bold Therapeutics

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Bold Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotech company that develops and commercializes an anti-resistance therapeutic.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Allon Therapeutics

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Allon Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, engaged in the development of drugs to treat neurodegenerative diseases.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Creatus Biosciences

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Creatus Biosciences is a green chemical production using proprietary bio-based industrial platform.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

LightIntegra Technology, Inc.

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LightIntegra works to give patients requiring platelet transfusions the best care possible.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

HTuO Biosciences

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Biotech company

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Mesentech

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Mesentech is a company focused on treating diseases and medical conditions that relate to bone.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Aurin Biotech

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Aurin Biotech Inc. is a private company established to advance the development of a remarkable collection of small molecules.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

MYM Nutraceuticals

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MYM Nutraceuticals is an emerging bio-pharmaceutical company and distributor of medical marijuana products.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Rakovina Therapeutics

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Publicly traded (RKV.V) company focused on the development of new cancer treatments based on novel DNA-damage response technologies.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Pharmagreen Biotech

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Pharmagreen s a company focused on biotech sciences utilizing proprietary technologies and formulations in its state of the art cannabis.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

MSI Methylation Sciences

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MSI Methylation Sciences is a biotechnology company that develops and markets S-Adenosyl Methionine.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Acuitas Therapeutics

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Acuitas provides delivery solutions for molecular therapeutics using lipid nanoparticles (LNP).

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Sitka Biopharma

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Transforming chemotherapies to further benefit patients by enhancing efficacy and improving tolerability.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

WPD Pharmaceuticals

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WPD Pharmaceuticals focuses on oncology, research, and development of medicinal products involving biological compounds and small molecules.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Neurodyn

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Neurodyn identifies, validates, and develops bioactive for neuroprotection and the early treatment of neurological diseases.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Mazza Innovation

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Mazza Innovation produces clean ingredients and specialize in extracting bioactive compounds including polyphenols.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Biotii Technologies

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Biotii Technologies is a leading private biotechnology company.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Naturally Splendid Enterprises Ltd.

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A multifaceted biotech company spanning many industries surrounding hemp. People, Planet, & Profit!

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

viDA Therapeutics

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viDA Therapeutics is a Canada-based biotech company that develops treatments for chronic inflammatory and age-related diseases.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

SynerGenetics Bioscience

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SynerGenetics Bioscience is a plant genetics research and development company focused on developing high-yield CBD hemp strains/seeds.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

MetaMixis

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Their founding team possesses a unique combination of expertise in synthetic biology, environmental genomics, and bioinformatics.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Industrial Plankton

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Industrial Plankton manufactures algal bioreactors with application in research and aquaculture.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Arthritis Research Centre of Canada

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Arthritis Research Centre of Canada is to improve the lives of people with arthritis through research.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

4D Labs

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4D Labs is Simon Fraser University’s core facility

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

HyperStealth Biotechnology

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HyperStealth Biotechnology develops military camouflage technology used in uniforms, vehicles, hunting tools, and stealth activities.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

MedGenesis Therapeutix

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MedGenesis Therapeutix is a biopharmaceutical company developing life-enhancing therapeutics for patients with serious neurologic diseases.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Abattis Bioceuticals

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Abattis Bioceuticals is a biotechnology life sciences company developing health solutions for chronic illnesses in humans and animals.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

EGF Theramed Health

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EGF Theramed Health is a consumer technology company engaged in the provision of biomedical online services.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Variational AI

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AI for small molecule discovery

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Ondine Biomedical

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Ondine Biomedical develops non-antibiotic, anti-infective therapies for a broad spectrum of bacterial, viral, and fungal infections.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Appleton Meats

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Appleton Meats is a Vancouver based, Canadian biotechnology meat company.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Cedar Biotech

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The patented Cedar Biotech Deodorizer is engineered to retrofit to Commercial Buildings of Any Size, via the buildings HVAC or Air Handler.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

VCENNA

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An Advanced Drug Discovery Biotech Company Using Natural Psychedelics for Mental Wellness Treatment

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Levitee Labs

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Levitee Labs is a biotechnology company with a diversified portfolio of healthcare and wellness assets.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Vanrx Pharmasystems

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Vanrx Pharmasystems manufactures aseptic filling machines that improve the production of sterile injectables.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

BioBreath

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BioBreath is developing the breath sensor diagnostic device.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

ASEP Medical

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ASEP Medical develops a diagnostic assay for the early and rapid diagnosis of sepsis.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Canexia Health

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Canexia Health offers cancer genomic information through clinically-validated research, informatics and oncology solutions.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Entheon Biomedical

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Entheon is a addiction recovery solution that harnesses and optimizes the therapeutic potential of the DMT molecule.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

The Brainfood Mushroom Company

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Combines new science and innovation with the ancient medicines of nature to create unique and effective solutions for optimal health.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Complex Biotech Discovery Ventures

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CBDV is a licensed cannabis research laboratory focused on chemical process development, analytical testing, and extraction optimization.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Symvivo Corporation

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Symvivo Corporation is a clinical-stage biotechnology company that develops DNA vaccines for genetic and life-threatening diseases.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Stem Shock

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Stem Shock is a company that helps developing natural RNA based precision herbicides that target damaging weed species.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Calyx Bio-Ventures

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Calyx Bio-Ventures is an agricultural technology company developing renewable fuels such as biojet and biodiesel.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Stressmarq Biosciences

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Stressmarq Biosciences is a health care biotechnology company located in Victoria.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Phyton Biotech

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Phyton Biotech is the world’s leader in pharmaceutical plant cell fermentation technology.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Applied Biological Materials

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Applied Biological Materials provides research reagents and custom services at low prices.

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