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Short guides to SR&ED tax credits and research grants for Canadian physicians, research teams and medtech companies, with links to the official sources. To talk about your own project, start with the funding services.
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September 28, 2026 · 4 min readHow RAMQ payments fit into a medical SR&ED claimRAMQ billing names the physician who provided care, but the payment can go to their medical corporation, and an SR&ED review looks at both.Read the article- September 21, 2026 · 4 min readMedical device verification, validation, and SR&EDVerification and validation testing can count toward SR&ED when it was run to solve a technical problem. Testing that only confirms a known requirement usually doesn’t.Read
- September 14, 2026 · 4 min readCan your Quebec medical corporation claim SR&ED?Your medical corporation pays for part of a hospital study. Learn what to check before deciding whether it can claim SR&ED in Quebec.Read
- September 8, 2026 · 3 min readWhen medical AI and imaging development may qualify for SR&EDTraining a medical model can qualify for SR&ED when your team had to run experiments to get past a technical limit that known methods couldn’t solve.Read
- August 31, 2026 · 5 min readMedical SR&ED claimant and evidence checklistA practical checklist for identifying claimant questions and preserving the records behind medical SR&ED work.Read
- August 10, 2026 · 3 min readWhy a doctor-corporation agreement matters for SR&EDA written agreement can help show whether a physician performed research as an employee of a medical corporation and which entity incurred the costs.Read
- August 2, 2026 · 3 min readFRQS funding and medical SR&ED: what doctors need to traceAn FRQ sector Santé award does not automatically prevent an SR&ED claim, but the recipient, purpose, and use of the funding must be traced carefully.Read
- July 29, 2026 · 3 min readDocumentation habits that make a medical SR&ED claim defensibleMost labs already keep the records an SR&ED claim needs. They just need to be dated, specific and easy to find.Read
- July 20, 2026 · 3 min readRoutine data collection vs eligible experimentation in SR&EDTwo labs can run the same assay and get different SR&ED answers, depending on why they collected the data.Read
- July 14, 2026 · 2 min readHow CIHR and NSERC grants affect your SR&ED claimA CIHR or NSERC grant does not automatically rule out SR&ED. It can reduce the costs used to calculate the credit.Read
- July 12, 2026 · 2 min readWhat counts as scientific uncertainty in a medical SR&ED claimA plain-language way to tell whether your medical research faced the kind of scientific uncertainty SR&ED requires.Read
- June 12, 2026 · 2 min readIs my clinical trial eligible for SR&ED?A clinical trial may include eligible SR&ED work when the team had to experiment because the answer was not already known.Read
- May 28, 2026 · 3 min readFive SR&ED mistakes clinician-scientists makeFive common mistakes that can reduce a medical SR&ED claim, from missing research time to waiting too long to file.Read
- May 9, 2026 · 2 min readWhat the CRA looks for in a medical SR&ED claimWhat a CRA reviewer checks in a medical SR&ED claim: the science, the records behind it and how the costs were calculated.Read