Laurent Pharmaceuticals Inc.: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · Montreal|Montréal, QC · grants and contributions register · Ville-Marie–Le Sud-Ouest–Île-des-Soeurs

Laurent Pharmaceuticals Inc.: federal grants and contributions: 10 agreements; $18.6M value; 1 departments; 3 programs.

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10agreements
$18.6Mvalue
1departments
3programs

Largest agreements

COVID-19 Response (TI): antivrial & Inflammation Controlling Therapeutic Drug Clinical Evaluation$10.0Mvalue2020start2023end

Clinical development of LAU-7b antiviral and inflammation-controlling therapy for COVID-19 infection.

LAU-7b as next-generation COVID-19 therapeutic - COVID-19 Response-Stage 3 (TI): antiviral & Inflammation Controlling Therapeutic Drug Clinical Evaluation$7.0Mvalue2023start2025end

The project is focusing on Phase 3 pivotal study of LAU-7b in moderate-to-severe hospitalized COVID-19 patients, and has a component allowing the transition to a new Phase 2 clinical development in mild-to-moderate non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients. LAU-7b is a next-generation COVID-19 antiviral that addresses the gap between early infection and critical COVID-19 disease, and aims for broad applicability at-home or in hospital. Because its host-directed mechanism, LAU-7b has the potential to work on all mutations of COVID-19, and other coronaviruses. Results from the Phase 2 pilot study sho

Formulation optimization and scale-up preclinical proof-of-principle in multiple animal models of rare diseases$665Kvalue2019start2021end

Formulation scale-up & preclinical proof-of-principle in multiple animal models of rare diseases.

Agreement$297Kvalue2016start–end
Agreement$244Kvalue2016start–end
Agreement$150Kvalue2014start–end
Agreement$89.5Kvalue2013start–end
Innovation Assistance Program – Round 2$48.7Kvalue2020start2020end

The funding provided from the Innovation Assistance Program is to assist innovative, early-stage small- and medium-sized enterprises that are unable to access existing COVID-19 business support.

Innovation Assistance Program$40.7Kvalue2020start2020end

The funding provided by the IAP program is intended to assist innovative small and medium-sized enterprises in the start-up phase that cannot access existing commercial support related to COVID-19.

Innovation Assistance Program – Round 2.5$21.7Kvalue2020start2021end

The funding provided from the Innovation Assistance Program is to assist innovative, early-stage small- and medium-sized enterprises that are unable to access existing COVID-19 business support.

Departments

National Research Council Canada10agreements$18.6Mvalue3programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Innovation Assistance Program
  • Innovation Assistance Program

All grants from National Research Council Canada

Years

20231agreements$7.0Mvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20204agreements$10.1Mvalue3programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Innovation Assistance Program
  • Innovation Assistance Program
20191agreements$665Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20162agreements$540Kvalue0programs
    20141agreements$150Kvalue0programs
      20131agreements$89.5Kvalue0programs

        Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Government of Canada proactive disclosure of grants and contributions (open.canada.ca, dataset 432527ab-7aac-45b5-81d6-7597107a7013), 1,327,352 rows as published, collapsed to one agreement per agreement number (per reference number where none is given) at its latest amendment, which carries the full agreement value. Years are the agreement start year. Agreements with individuals are counted but not named.