Synthetic Biology grants in Canada
Explore Synthetic Biology grants for companies in Canada. This list brings together funding for engineered biology, biomanufacturing, biofoundries and bio-based materials from Canadian innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in Canada, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Synthetic Biology in Canada come first.
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CIRIF Intake 1
🇨🇦CFI · Canada
Funds institutions hosting Canada Impact Chairs through major infrastructure support.
CIRIF Intake 2
🇨🇦CFI · Canada
Funds institutions hosting Canada Impact Chairs through major infrastructure support.
IQ ESSOR — Investment Feasibility and Digital Diagnostics (Volet 1)
🇨🇦IQ · Canada
Funds Quebec for-profit companies conducting feasibility studies or digital diagnostics to prepare major investment projects.
NRC IRAP Standard R&D Contribution
🇨🇦NRC · Canada
Provides Canadian innovators with hands-on guidance for technology-led projects and commercialization planning.
NRC IRAP Accelerated Review Program
🇨🇦NRC · Canada
Supports Canadian applied-innovation teams with faster review and rapid decisions for focused milestones.
Project Grant
🇨🇦CIHR (Canadian Institutes of H · Canada
Funds flagship Canadian health investigator grants for biomedical research to strengthen real-world implementation.
Innovation Programme — Component 2 (Programme innovation — Volet 2 / Projets mobilisateurs)
🇨🇦IQ · Canada
Funds Quebec for-profit companies leading collaborative R&D projects with universities and research centres to develop innovative products or processes.
N-GAPP — National Genomic Partnership Program
🇨🇦Genome Canada · Canada
Funds public-private genomics R&D projects up to CAD 2 million in which Canadian academic researchers partner with for-profit industry receptors to apply genomics outcomes to commercial needs.
Technology Leadership — Genomics Stream
🇨🇦PIC · Canada
Funds commercialization pathways for genomic tools for pulse and cereal crop improvement through Canadian crop innovation.
Horizon Civil Security: Bioterrorism Prevention
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a €3M project that reviews how synthetic biology could be misused for bioterrorism and pinpoints where monitoring and regulation fall short.
Horizon Bio-CCU: Carbon to Products
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €6M projects that use biotechnology to purify captured carbon and turn it into sustainable feedstock for industrial products.
Eurostars Call 12 for projects
🇪🇺RVO · Netherlands
Funds innovative SME-led international R&D consortia through the Eurostars Call 12 grant process.
CRF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship — Seed
🇺🇸CRF · United States
Runs students and early career scholars with mentoring support for CRF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in biotechnology, medical technology, and synthetic biology.
CRF Research Grant
🇺🇸CRF · United States
Administers research teams and institutions for CRF Research Grant in biotechnology, medical technology, and synthetic biology.
Bioprospecting and optimised production of marine/aquatic natural products in the omics & artificial intelligence era
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds biodiscovery projects that use AI and digital tools to find and sustainably produce new natural compounds from marine and freshwater organisms.
CBE JU: Nutritional Food Ingredient Resilience
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €20M innovation project that scales alternative proteins, oils, fibres or specialty carbohydrates into safe, accepted food ingredients.
CBE JU: Safe Bio-Based Ingredients for Home & Personal Care
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €20M project that turns bio-based chemicals and ingredients into safer, sustainable home and personal care products at industrial scale.
Horizon Bioeconomy: Biotech Biorefineries
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €20M industrial project that scales biotechnology into sustainable biorefineries and market-ready bio-based products.
Horizon Bioeconomy: Industrial & Environmental Biotech
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds three €4M lump-sum grants for industrial and environmental biotech — synthetic biology, gene editing, biofoundries — not health biotech or biofuels.
Horizon Bioeconomy: Marine Bio-Based Products
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €5M projects turning marine organisms — algae, fungi, invertebrates — into safer bio-based replacements for adhesives, coatings and chemicals.
Horizon Bioeconomy: Residual Biomass Biotech
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €7M projects that turn farm, forestry, aquatic and urban bio-waste into market-ready chemicals, materials and ingredients.
Nutrients produced by microorganisms utilising primarily CO2 from the air, with the support of biotechnology
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds companies and researchers scaling up precision-fermentation microorganisms that turn captured CO2 into food nutrients.
Waste-to-value devices - circular production of renewable fuels, chemicals and materials
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research turning hard-to-recycle waste streams like plastics, flue gases and desalination brine into fuels, chemicals and materials, with EU contributions up to EUR 4 million per project.
Y Combinator Accelerator Program
🇺🇸YC · United States
Runs Y Combinator Accelerator for early-stage startups with a three-month batch, investment, and mentoring support.