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FABLESS BIOLOGICS &
VACCINE MANUFACTURING

Producing affordable pharmaceuticals through global innovation and Canadian infrastructure.

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OUR MISSION

To produce affordable pharmaceuticals by licensing global innovations and utilizing Canadian biomanufacturing infrastructure.

Affordability

We aim to challenge the dominance of US "Big Pharma" by reducing the burden of high cost vaccines & biologics on the Canadian taxpayer through leveraging domestic manufacturing capabilities.

Our Vision

Become Canada's first agile, cost-efficient bridge for licensing, developing, and commercializing innovative foreign intellectual property in large molecule pharmaceuticals.

Canada was once a leader in public vaccine manufacturing

  • In 1914, Connaught Labs produced antitoxins as a public, not-for-profit institute tied to the University of Toronto.

  • But by the 1990s, privatization and foreign acquisitions (Connaught → Sanofi, Armand Frappier → GSK) dismantled our domestic capacity, leaving Canada exposed during COVID 19.

  • In response, the federal government invested $126 million in the Biologics Manufacturing Centre (BMC) — which today remains underutilized, with only one confirmed partner.

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Cost

High out-of-pocket costs

Cost

Even with public and private coverage, patients still pay high out-of-pocket costs—while taxpayers foot inflated bills driven by pharma pricing power.

Fragile Health Sovereignty

Reliance on foreign giants

Fragile Health Sovereignty

Canada relies on foreign pharma giants, with little control over supply, pricing, or production.

Vulnerable Supply Chains

Exposed inability to produce

Vulnerable Supply Chains

Pandemics and geopolitics have exposed our inability to produce critical medicines when it matters most.

Innovation Bottleneck

Delayed therapies

Innovation Bottleneck

Cutting-edge therapies abroad are delayed or unavailable in Canada due to lack of domestic licensing and trial pathways.

The Challenge - BMC Building
The Solution - Laboratory

Rebuild Domestic Biotech

Resilient domestic pipeline

Rebuild Domestic Biotech

License late-phase global innovations and invest in Canadian-led development and commercialization, building a resilient domestic pipeline.

Deploy Idle Capacity

Untapped national capacity

Deploy Idle Capacity

Facilities like the Biologics Manufacturing Centre (BMC) represent untapped national capacity.

Slash Costs

Affordable biologics

Slash Costs

Avoid traditional R&D overhead and global distribution markups to offer affordable, locally made biologics for both patients and healthcare systems.

Eliminate Price Gouging

Minimize excessive markups

Eliminate Price Gouging

Minimizing cost allows minimizing excessive markups to patients while still offering high-quality medicines.

If drug development is supported by taxpayer dollars, then the public deserves access to its rewards—not just private shareholders.

We believe that public funding should yield public returns.

We believe in a resilient, self-sufficient Canadian pharmaceutical system, free of foreign interference, ready for pandemics and supply chain shocks.

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