Nicoya Lifescience Inc.: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · Kitchener|Kitchener, ON · grants and contributions register · Kenora—Kiiwetinoong

Nicoya Lifescience Inc.: federal grants and contributions: 3 agreements; $1.4M value; 1 departments; 1 programs.

Assay record ASY-CA-1CH4DYK1YH · Cite as: Assay Systems, “Nicoya Lifescience Inc.: federal grants and contributions”, https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/r/nicoya-lifescience-inc/

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3agreements
$1.4Mvalue
1departments
1programs

Largest agreements

Develop the next generation of digital surface plasmon resonance instruments$700Kvalue2023start2024end

The project will focus on building on and improving the performance of the groundbreaking Alto technology platform. This will be achieved through research and development aimed to achieve a combination of novel process innovations in advanced manufacturing and product innovation resulting in end-user performance inclusive of user experience.

“Business Innovation - Accelerating commercial expansion of Nicoya's lifescience products”$426Kvalue2023start2024end

Nicoya plans for aggressive growth that require significant expansion of activities deployed by the commercial organization, such as the addition of critical Human Resources to drive marketing and sales actions, and, expansion of marketing activities to raise awareness, generate interest, create opportunities that lead to significant growth in sales. It also requires improvement in efficiency of marketing activities by improving conversations rates at various stages of lead life cycle.

Development of a microfluidics enabled surface plasmon resonance platform for high throughput, low cost kinetic analysis$300Kvalue2018start2019end

Nicoya Lifesciences’ vision is to extend human life by enabling deeper knowledge of the biological world. We do this by giving researchers the tools they need to make their next big discovery. Our flagship product, the OpenSPR, is used by hundreds of scientists all over the world and has enabled significant new discoveries to be made related to human health, diseases, drug, and therapies. This project involves the development of the next generation of our surface plasmon resonance (SPR) instruments that will allow researchers to generate even more meaningful data faster and for less money.

Departments

National Research Council Canada3agreements$1.4Mvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms

All grants from National Research Council Canada

Years

20232agreements$1.1Mvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20181agreements$300Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms

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.