Reduction of the odyssey
Symbiose Innovation helps reduce scientific, medical, and collaborative fragmentation. The platform acts as a unifying force, reconnecting key pillars of innovation that too often operate in isolation.
De-risking and accelerating projects
Through its comprehensive service offering, Symbiose Innovation delivers a robust methodological framework, streamlines development timelines, and mitigates the risk of failure.
Unlocking the full potential of existing expertise
Symbiose Innovation brings visibility, structure, and cohesion to existing expertise and initiatives.
Why Symbiose Innovation ?
In rare diseases, the expertise exists.
Projects exist.
But the connections between stakeholders remain fragmented.
Knowledge remains scattered, stakeholders frequently work in silos, and effective connections between basic research, clinical practice, innovation, and patients are hard to mobilize. As a consequence, promising projects struggle to gain structure, secure the right partnerships, and ultimately reach patients.
Symbiose Innovation was born to restore continuity and foster coordination across the rare disease innovation ecosystem.
Our solution :
A single hub, two mutually reinforcing pillar
The platform sparks initiatives, the services turn them into reality.

A digital platform
A single entry point for:
- To identify and map expertise, projects, solutions, and initiatives in the field of rare diseases
- To explore the dynamics within the rare disease ecosystem
- To link the right actors at the right moment
- To highlight current and future collaborations
- To provide rapid, structured guidance within a complex ecosystem

Tailored services
Lorsque les résultats de la plateforme nécessitent approfondissement, structuration ou mise en œuvre, nos services prennent le relais.
Explore - Pilot - Communicate - Finance
Tailored support to:
- Analyze the ecosystem
- Structure collaborations
- Coordinate projects
- Enhance the visibility and legitimacy of solutions
How does it work ?
1. Sign up for FREE on the platform : As an expert, you highlight your expertise and bring your experience and accomplishments in rare diseases to the forefront.
2. Explore the ecosystem : You discover stakeholders, organizations, innovative solutions, and potential opportunities for collaboration or funding.
3. Build connections : Our AI-driven search engine links you with the right experts, tailored to your profile and requirements.
4. Sign up your organization and showcase your solutions along with your collaboration needs. to make them visible within the Symbiose ecosystem.
5. Fast-track (If required): Symbiose services organize, oversee, and amplify collaborations to achieve maximum impact.
Who does Symbiose Innovation serve?
Symbiose Innovation addresses all stages of the rare disease innovation continuum:
For citizen partners and patient organizations To showcase their expertise and initiatives
To researchers To discover partners, projects, and potential avenues for impact
To clinicians To bridge the gap between research and medical practice
To innovators and startups To organize their collaborations and facilitate market access
To industries and institutions To discover projects, partners, and emerging dynamics
Get started
Are you an expert in rare diseases—whether as a patient partner, researcher, healthcare professional, innovator, member of a patient association, or industry representative?
Sign up as an expert
Sign up for free on the platformRegister your organization, showcase your projects, solutions, collaboration opportunities, and tap into the ecosystem to access the expertise you need.
Let’s talk about your needs
Have a project, need, or question?
Let’s explore how Symbiose Innovation can assist you in shaping and carrying out your collaborative projects.
Our team

Dr. Jean-Sébastien Paquette
Chairman

Sandra Schnock
CEO

Alexandre Menicacci
COO

Nadine Ben Ali
Product and Services Manager
What are you waiting for? Join the Symbiose community today!
The platform is free to join for all experts working in rare diseases, from researchers to patient partners.
Contact us
Curious about Symbiose Innovation, our services, or the platform?
👉 Let’s arrange a virtual meeting
👉 Or reach out to us by email—we’ll get back to you within 24 hours.
contact@symbioseinnovation.ca


