Renowned public health expert Bill Gates gave tens of millions of dollars to various Canadian pharmaceutical and biotech research companies throughout the pandemic through the Gates Foundation.
The following is a list of various pharmaceutical and biological research facilities, not including universities, that Bill Gates has funded between 2020-2022:
- $3,300,000 was given to the Institut de Cardiologie de Montreal to “provide effective, accessible, scalable treatment for COVID-19.”
- $2,509,762 was given to Emerging Ag Inc. to “increase awareness and understanding of possible gene drive applications for public good purposes within international policy forums.”
- $2,019,244 was given to Nexelis Laboratories Canada Inc. to “provide centralized assays to support studies of vaccine and monoclonal antibody candidates.”
- $1,399,280 was given to the Hospital for Sick Children to “document county successes in the reduction of anemia among women of reproductive age, and [sustainable development goals] indicator.”
- $1,541,258 was given to the Hospital for Sick Children to “improve key MNCH practices, care seeking behaviours, immunization coverage, nutritional status, and community knowledge in Pakistan.”
- $2,374,159 was given to the Hospital for Sick Children to “evaluate and advance a novel technological platform to increase the potency and breadth of monoclonal antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 and other infectious disease agents.”
- $288,556 was given to Precision Nanosystems, Inc. to “assess the potential of a novel mRNA manufacturing platform for future pandemic responses.”
- $50,200 was given to Cytel Canada Health Inc. to “facilitate rapid acquisition of knowledge regarding COVID-19 trials that were developing since early 2020.”
- $4,974,305 was given to the Structural Genomics Consatorium to “accelerate the NHC pipeline, Target Enabling Packages (TEPs) will help validate a diverse set of targets enabling a critical mass of reagents to allow biochemical and chemical characterization of proteins linked to the role of fertility.”