Kapoose Creek Bio Corporation

$700,000.00 CAD

≈ 9 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
National Research Council Canada
Program
Industrial Research Assistance Program
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2025-2026
Agreement period
February 1, 2026 – August 2, 2027
Reference
nrc-cnrc:172-2025-2026-Q4-1041349

Published purpose

Kapoose Creek Bio will adapt our existing AI-enabled phenotypic profiling platform for chemical threat assessment. Unlike chemistry-first detection that requires knowing what to look for, our activity-based approach identifies biological mechanism of action regardless of chemical novelty detecting even never-before-seen agents, such as novel derivatives that would evade traditional methods. The platform uses high-content cell imaging combined with Random Forest machine learning, leveraging a training set of 13,000+ bioactive compounds with known activity and mechanism. We will build a reference atlas of ~100 threat-relevant agents to further train mechanism classification. This capability will provide actionable intelligence within 48h.

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