Manitoba’s Growing Biotech Sector: Innovation, Collaboration, and Community

Manitoba is home to a thriving and diverse bioscience sector. One that’s steadily gaining recognition across Canada and beyond. As we celebrate Global Biotech Week, it’s worth spotlighting how Manitoba is showing up Manitoba Bioscience Advantage.

Manitoba’s next level of growth and innovation is best served by partnerships and collaborations to efficiently and expeditiously connect the dots for more. One of our best strengths in Manitoba is ability to work together and face challenges and BAM is putting those strengths to work.

One of the strengths of Manitoba’s bioscience ecosystem is the collaborative spirit that runs through it. This year, Bioscience Association Manitoba (BAM) is partnering in a big way:

• BIOQuébec – Collaborating on interprovincial opportunities for knowledge sharing, joint programming, and business development to support a pan-Canadian approach to industry growth.

• Digital Health Canada (DHC) – Launching a Manitoba Chapter to grow digital health training, strengthen industry connections, and advance education and innovation in the province.

• Pharmaceutical Sciences Group (PSG) – Bringing nationally recognized training to Manitoba’s bioscience sector and co-hosting the annual BAM/PSG AI Summit in Winnipeg.

• Canadian Alliance for Skills and Training in Life Sciences (CASTL) – Creating hands-on training opportunities to help new talent launch careers in Manitoba’s bioscience industry.

• North Forge – Partnering to support early-stage innovation in health, agriculture, and clean technology by connecting incubating ideas with industry insight and guidance.

• MedTech Canada – Fostering collaboration and conversation across sectors, including co-hosting Manitoba’s first Life Sciences Policy Summit. 

• Indigenous Chamber of Commerce – Co-hosting Indigenous Health Innovations: Weaving Traditions and Technology on November 28, 2025, in Winnipeg.

BAM will continue developing agreements with others in bioscience to continue creating a united front for our limitless sector. 

The bioscience sector in Manitoba spans health and diagnostics, pharmaceutical manufacturing, agricultural biotech, and clean technology. Local companies like Emergent BioSolutions Bausch Health, IVC Vita Health, and Dynacare are not only major employers, economic drivers, they’re key contributors to research, clinical innovation, and global health supply chains.

BAM continues to support its 200+ members through year-round industry and workforce development supports. This includes the recent formation of a Clinical Trials Working Group, supported by the Government of Manitoba, which brings together stakeholders across the provinces to strengthen Manitoba’s capacity to support clinical trials, patient access, and long-term investment in health innovation.

At the same time, BAM is committed to building up the skills of both future and current talent in Manitoba. Through training programs, mentorship opportunities, and strategic partnerships, BAM helps ensure that workers at every stage of their career have access to the learning and development they need to succeed in a rapidly evolving industry. 

Manitoba’s bioscience sector is not just about research labs and R&D. It’s also about people: researchers, students, lab technicians, startups and companies working every day to improve health, food systems, and the environment. 

Global Biotech Week is a time to recognize their contributions and to keep building an ecosystem that puts collaboration, innovation, and impact first. 

For more information about Bioscience Association Manitoba visit www.biomb.ca.