Company Profiles
From multi-national corporations to SME’s, the PEI Bioscience Cluster boasts a diverse and dedicated workforce of local, national, and internationally-educated professionals who have chosen to work here. The number of bioscience-based companies has more than tripled in Prince Edward Island since 2008, with significant growth in business, revenues, employment, infrastructure, and investments. Most companies are located in the capital city of Charlottetown – the geographic hub of the PEI Bioscience Cluster.
Animal Health
Fish Health
Human Health
Industrial BioProducts – Clean Tech
Plant Health
AddiCan
ADDiCAN is a feed additive company that provides solutions to select commercial poultry and cattle markets. ADDICAN is committed to supporting the animal feed market with the highest quality nutrition products that ensure growth enhancement, maximized production, maximized food utilization and a selective protection against pathogens which will aid in maximizing profit for its clients.
Advanced Extraction Technologies
Advanced Extraction Systems Inc. (AESI) designs, engineers and fabricates manual and fully automated supercritical fluid botanical CO2 extraction systems for the medical marijuana and hemp industries in North America. AESI has an exclusive manufacturing agreement with Diversified Metal Engineering Ltd. (DME) an innovative engineering and manufacturing company located in Prince Edward Island, Canada with over 25 years of manufacturing experience to build the systems in their state of the art CRN, ASME and ISO accredited facility.
AlphaCognition Inc.
AlphaCognition, Inc. is a privately held biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel therapies to treat diseases of the brain and spinal cord. They embarked on research programs to find alternative ways of treating Alzheimer’s disease and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also called Lou Gehrig’s Disease. To date, both are very serious conditions that have major unmet medical needs. Formerly known as Neurodyn Inc.
AMAR Seafood PEI
AMAR Seafoods Ltd., headquartered in Norway with operations in Quebec and Newfoundland, has acquired the assets of the former Halibut PEI in Victoria, PEI. The new company is called AMAR Seafood PEI. At Amar Seafood, they want to contribute to developing successful food production with a sustainable focus – both in terms of diet and environment. Their aim is to contribute to sustainable business and industry growth through research and development partnerships, prioritizing fish welfare and growth, as well as contribute to a more sustainable seafood production that benefits future generations.
Atlantic Agritech Inc
Atlantic AgriTech Inc. is an agricultural and environmental research and consulting company located in Prince Edward Island, providing contract agricultural and environmental research services to clients from across North America since 1991. Facilities include a GLP compliant office and field/laboratory space, as well as a complete line of farm and research equipment suitable for conducting a wide range of agricultural and environmental research studies.
Auxly Charlottetown
Auxly is a leading Canadian consumer packaged goods company in the cannabis products market, headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The Company operates a 52,000 square foot processing facility in PEI where it conducts its primary derivative cannabis product development, manufacturing and research and development activities. It also operates a 1.1 million square foot automated greenhouse cultivation facility in Leamington, Ontario that supports the Company’s extensive consumer-tailored product suite. Auxly’s mission is to help consumers live happier lives through quality cannabis products that they trust and love.
BioSpa
BioSpa (Quann) Cosmeceuticals Inc. is a PEI company that manufactures and distributes a novel professional skincare line – Quannessence Skincare – botanical based technologies that improve skin conditions and assist in reducing the effects of aging. Several of the ingredients used in the products are derived from PEI based extracts and technologies.
BIOVECTRA
BIOVECTRA, a part of Agilent, is a leading bioscience business located in Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, focused on contract manufacturing and product development of active pharmaceutical ingredients, pharmaceutical intermediates, and bioreagents. BIOVECTRA is an industry leader in microbial fermentation, with 64,000 L of fermentation capacity.
Canada’s Island Garden
Canada’s Island Garden Inc., known through their brands FIGR and Piper’s Punch, is a 100% PEI-owned and operated licensed cannabis producer located in the Charlottetown BioCommons Research Park. They produce, process, and distribute cannabis products for the legalized cannabis market. The facility is comprised of over 320,000 square feet with dedicated indoor and greenhouse growing environments, processing facilities, and offices.
Canadian Alliance for Skills & Training in Life Sciences
The Canadian Alliance for Skills and Training in Life Sciences (CASTL) is Canada’s national biomanufacturing training partner, dedicated to developing skilled talent to drive the country’s thriving biomanufacturing sector. With state-of-the-art, GMP-simulated facilities from coast to coast, CASTL delivers hands-on, industry-informed training alongside flexible online learning. As Canada’s exclusive provider of National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT) programs, CASTL offers world-class education with support from adMare BioInnovations and its adMare Academy, shaping the next generation of life sciences professionals.
CNS-CRO
CNS CRO (Contract Research Corporation) is a private, pre-clinical neurological disease specialty laboratory, offering a range of proprietary cell-based and animal models for pre-clinical evaluation of test compounds for neurodegenerative disease. CNS CRO also has extensive expertise in behavioural and cognitive assessment.
Croda Canada Ltd.
Croda Canada Ltd. (Nautilus) is a technology-rich marine biotechnology company based in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Founded in 2007 by Professor Russell Kerr, they focus on using marine microbial biodiversity to discover novel actives and materials. Croda International Plc, who creates, makes and sells speciality chemicals for some of the biggest, most successful brands in the world, recently acquired Nautilus – having worked closely together for the past six years developing specific applications for skin care and hair care, as well as crop care – Croda recently established Nautilus as the Croda Centre of Innovation for Marine Biotechnology at Nautilus’ existing base at the University of Prince Edward Island. Croda has exclusive global access to the Marine Microbial Library which is based at the University of Prince Edward Island.
Direct NutriSciences
Direct NutriSciences is a full service healthcare company based in Canada that offers complete marketplace solutions for pharmaceutical grade OTC and nutraceutical products. We have developed a reputation for producing the gold standard in product efficacy, manufacturing excellence and delivering the best value equation for our customers.
EVAH Corp
EVAH Corp is a proud Canadian biotechnology company based in Quebec that is focused on developing animal health technologies. EVAH aims at developing promising technologies for sustainable food production, with a focus on production animal vaccines and alternatives to antibiotics.
EVAH’s platform develops the animal health technologies the planet needs. These will help build the resilience of the Canadian and global food supply chain and contribute to Canada’s climate change and human health goals.
Island Abbey Nutritionals
Island Abbey Nutritionals is an innovative food science company based out of Prince Edward Island, Canada. With an impressive library of proven formulations, their state-of-the-art facilities specialize in manufacturing technology for gummy and honey lozenge production. As industry leaders, they provide full contract manufacturing, bottling, and packaging capabilities for a variety of supplementary and natural health-focused dietary needs.
Merck Animal Health
Merck Animal Health helps aquaculture producers and conservationists cultivate and maintain healthy and sustainable aquatic ecosystems. Our industry-leading biopharmaceutical and technology solutions monitor for insight, optimize for precision, and benchmark for performance. At their manufacturing and quality facility in Charlottetown, they produce fish vaccines that are shipped worldwide.
Nature’s Crops International
NCI is a premier supplier of organic, non-GM, and expeller pressed oils (Natures Crops Specialty Oils). They manage the supply chain of high value non-commodity products derived from specialty grown crops for a range of industries, including functional food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and specialty channels.
Nutracelle
Nutracelle is an innovative company focused on creating high-quality protein nutritional supplements for the health and wellness market in North America. The product was launched in 2016, and since that time, gross sales have reached well over $1.5 million. It took CEO, Melanie Wildman three years to develop a gluten-free and nut-free product that included prebiotic fibre to meet the nutritional needs of people who were trying to lose weight or maintain their weight loss. As a PEI BioAlliance Emergence client, Nutracelle has worked with BIO|FOOD|TECH and Canada’s Smartest Kitchen to develop additional natural and healthy products, including protein bars, smoothies, and baking mixes made in PEI.
Pegasus Biotech Inc.
Pegasus Biotech Inc. is an agile biotech company focused in providing high quality vaccine (DNA, autogenous, rProtein, VLPs) development services to the human and animal health sectors as well as developing accurate and reliable analytical testing methods for the human and animal health industry. Our areas of expertise include cell culture/fermentation and purification process development, analytical assay development, veterinary biologic product development and regulatory submission (EMA, CFIA, FDA, USDA), point-of-care and clinical diagnostic instrument and assay development, GLP/GMP lab quality standards and HSE.
Remidose
Remidose Aerosols Inc is federally licensed cannabis processing company located in Stratford, PEI that manufactures rapid acting, accurately dosed cannabis devices. Remidose recently completed its manufacturing facility and is expanding into the Canadian recreational and medical cannabis markets.
RPS Biologiques
Sekisui Diagnostics PEI Inc.
Sekisui Diagnostics P.E.I. Inc. is a global leading manufacturer and developer of in-vitro diagnostics products, focused on bringing general and specialty clinical chemistry reagents to diagnostics manufacturers and clinical laboratories worldwide. Based in Japan, the company purchased an existing bioscience company in Charlottetown which each year, produces 1.5 billion clinical chemistry tests in P.E.I. that are then shipped around the world. Sekisui was named one of Canada’s top 100 Employers in 2018.
Sentry
SENTRY and has pioneered a biology activity and water quality monitoring platform that provides real-time microbial performance data in locations never possible before. From untreated, variable wastewater at a treatment plant’ headworks (consumable BOD) to fluctuating anaerobic digester (AD) biomass (consumable VFA), our robust bio-electrode sensors provide early-on, always-on insights into biological processes that exist wherever water is used, stored, or treated.
Somru BioScience Inc.
Somru BioScience Inc. is an emerging biotechnology company dedicated to developing breakthrough antibody technology for research, diagnostic and therapeutic applications. The company currently uses antibodies to generate reagents that will accelerate biosimilar research and development.
Timeless Veterinary Systems Inc.
Timeless Veterinary Systems Inc., part of the Timeless group of companies, is a specialized tech company based in Charlottetown, PEI, with a focus on creating innovative web-based technologies for today’s veterinarian. Timeless has been developing HL7 / HIPAA compliant medical technologies for over 20 years and has been collaborating with veterinary academics and researchers since 2007 to port its medical technologies into veterinary medicine which started in Laboratory: creating VLA’s web based worldwide Quality System. Today our core expertise focuses in web / cloud-based management systems for referral practices, telemedicine and mobile specialists including Diagnostic Imaging (PACS & RIS), Radiology, Cardiology, Pathology, Dentistry, Nutrition, Laboratory, and others. Timeless also develops evidence-based applications for diagnosis and treatment in web, iOS and Android applications. The Timeless portfolio of products includes the Timeless Veterinary Telemedicine System, Timeless Veterinary Cloud PACS, Vet Drug Index and VPR Cloud drug reference applications.
Tunistrong
Founded in 2022, Tunistrong is a sustainable biotechnology company dedicated to the valorization of Tunicates, an invasive marine animal which causes significant challenges for aquaculture. Tunistrong acts as a Tunicate cleaning service, removing existing Tunicates from the marine environment and utilizing it to produce Tunicate derived cellulose and Tunicate derived proteins. Their vision is to work to address the Tunicate problem and to create the World’s first and only commodity source of Tunicate nanocellulose and various other Tunicate derived products.
Wellfish Tech
WellFish Tech is a fast-growing company that started as a university spin-out in Paisley, Scotland. Since its initiation in 2021, the company has expanded into Norway and is now looking to hire key team members in North America. Wellfish tech is focused on revolutionizing the way in which the health of aquaculture, wild stocks, and research animals are evaluated and managed using non-lethal blood assessment. The company combines production data, clinical chemistry, and AI tools to bring context to health monitoring and insights that allow for data-driven decisions.