Semathera Inc.: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · Westmount|Westmount, QC · grants and contributions register · Outremont

Semathera Inc.: federal grants and contributions: 7 agreements; $1.2M value; 2 departments; 4 programs.

Assay record ASY-CA-1V6UZ1I1L1 · Cite as: Assay Systems, “Semathera Inc.: federal grants and contributions”, https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/r/semathera-inc/

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7agreements
$1.2Mvalue
2departments
4programs

Largest agreements

Preclinical development and tox studies for biologic treating diabetic macular edema.$491Kvalue2021start2023end

Development of analytical methods allowing to determine the tolerability, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of various treatments under development for retinopathy. The results will allow the selection of the molecule continuing their developments towards the next stages of the IND-enabling preclinical studies.

Development of a biologic for the treatment of diabetic macular edema$350Kvalue2017start2019end

A novel treatment that will offer a new alternative to poor responders of currrent therapies of diabetic macular edema.

Agreement$300Kvalue2017start–end
Innovation Assistance Program – Round 2$43.3Kvalue2020start2020end

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$30.5Kvalue2020start2020end

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$16.3Kvalue2020start2021end

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.

CanExport Innovation - SemaThera Inc. 2019-2020$8.0Kvalue2020start2020end

The purpose of this CanExport Innovation grant agreement is to support organizations and to build on targeted relationships between Canadian companies/researchers and key organizations in other countries to allow them to proceed with formal discussions to initiate collaboration(s) on future international R&D initiatives that could lead to commercialization of Canadian technologies.

Departments

National Research Council Canada6agreements$1.2Mvalue3programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Innovation Assistance Program
  • Innovation Assistance Program

All grants from National Research Council Canada

Global Affairs Canada1agreements$8.0Kvalue1programs

Years

20211agreements$491Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20204agreements$98.0Kvalue3programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Innovation Assistance Program
  • Innovation Assistance Program
  • CanExport - Innovation
20172agreements$650Kvalue1programs
  • 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.