SR&ED for life sciences.
Biotech and life-sciences work is experimental by nature, which makes it a strong SR&ED fit. From assay development to bioprocessing, the uncertainty you work through every day is exactly what the credit rewards.
What qualifies in Life Sciences & Biotech?
Eligibility comes down to one test: did your team work through genuine technical uncertainty? In life sciences & biotech, that usually looks like this.
- Developing and validating new assays
- Formulation and stability work
- Preclinical experimentation
- Optimizing bioprocesses, fermentation, or yield
- Adapting protocols where the results were uncertain
What a claim looks like
A biotech optimized a fermentation yield that had plateaued well below target.
A diagnostics company developed an assay where no established protocol existed.
A pharma team reformulated a compound to improve stability without losing efficacy.
How Chrono builds your claim
Chrono reconstructs defensible, evidence-linked timesheets and technical narratives from the records you already keep. No manual time tracking required.
- Electronic lab notebooks
- Experiment protocols
- LIMS data
Life Sciences & Biotech, answered
Is clinical trial work eligible?
Some supporting experimentation and specific phases can be; routine trial execution generally isn't. Chrono helps separate the eligible development work from the rest.
We're grant-funded. Does that block a claim?
No. Funding affects how the credit is calculated, not whether the work qualifies. You can still claim, with the funding accounted for correctly.
See what your Life Sciences & Biotech claim is worth.
Estimate your credit in two minutes, then let Chrono build the claim from the data you already have.