About Us

Life Sciences Nova Scotia is the organization to fuel your success. Whether you are looking to invest, shift your start-up to a more supportive environment, or punch above your weight as a life sciences company, you can make it count in Nova Scotia. This place is the perfect size to knock down walls and open doors. Life Sciences Nova Scotia is here to help you multiply your impact and take your ambition further.

At Life Sciences Nova Scotia (formerly BioNova), we value innovation in life sciences to advance the health and well being of people here at home and around the world. BioInnovation fuels life – transforming research, discovery and new ideas into products and solutions that can be commercialized to cure and prevent disease, provide healthier food, and develop clean energy.
Life Sciences Nova Scotia is a champion of our world-class research driven universities, an innovative health system, incubator programs, and risk capital and government infrastructure support. We help position our province to attract foreign direct investment, high global export demand for strong GDP and sector growth.

Since 1993, we have been fostering the growth and success of our members by building a community through intention. We work to provide the resources and tools our members need. We help them navigate through different stages of their development, from early start up to scaling and commercializing. We create opportunities for education, mentoring and networking, and generate connections for funding, talent recruitment and cost savings.