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DrugBank

Biotechnology & Life SciencesAIEdmonton, AB

Edmonton company, operating as OMx Personal Health Analytics Inc., that curates and licenses structured biomedical drug data — a drug, target and trial knowledge graph delivered through commercial data packages, a clinical API and an MCP endpoint for customers' AI tools.

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Company site: drugbank.com

Edmonton company, operating as OMx Personal Health Analytics Inc., that curates and licenses structured biomedical drug data — a drug, target and trial knowledge graph delivered through commercial data packages, a clinical API and an MCP endpoint for customers' AI tools.

  • Operates as OMx Personal Health Analytics Inc., federal corporation 826702-2, incorporated under the CBCA on 2012-08-03, status Active. ised-isde.canada.ca

  • States DrugBank began at the University of Alberta, where co-founders Craig Knox and Michael Wilson helped create a database of 4,000 drugs and their biological targets. drugbank.com

  • Raised a $9M seed round announced April 2022, led by Brightspark Ventures with Amplitude Ventures, Theodorus Investment Funds, AccelerateFund and BoxOne Ventures, which led the earlier pre-seed. blog.drugbank.com

  • Lists Alberta Innovates, Genome Alberta, Genome Canada and the NRC among its funders alongside venture investors. No dollar amounts are published for any of them. drugbank.com

Products & Services

Company site: drugbank.com

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Clinical Intelligence API

Drug data API

Company describes it as enhancing healthcare software with "evidence-based and structured drug information", including a drug interaction checker and advanced drug search features.

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DrugBank MCP

AI integration endpoint

Company describes it as letting AI tools connect directly to DrugBank's structured knowledge graph over the Model Context Protocol, so responses are grounded in its knowledgebase rather than general training data.

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Funding & Investors

Announced rounds only, newest first. Undisclosed amounts are shown as undisclosed.

  1. Seed

    Apr 11, 2022

    Investors: Brightspark Ventures, Amplitude Ventures, Theodorus Investment Funds, AccelerateFund, BoxOne Ventures

Total disclosed: C$9.0MLatest: Seed · Apr 11, 2022

Recent News

  1. Aug 17, 2026Product

    Summer 2026 product roundup

    DrugBank reported densifying its knowledge graph with new entry points including chemical-structure and protein-sequence search, deeper target biology and structured trial detail, exposed through its MCP endpoint.

  2. Oct 21, 2025Leadership

    DrugBank announces leadership transition

    DrugBank announced that Lisa Downey had been appointed chief executive effective October 6, 2025, with co-founder Mike Wilson moving from chief executive to chief product officer.

People

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Lisa Downey

Chief Executive Officer

Mike Wilson

Chief Product Officer and Co-founder

Craig Knox

Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder

Technology Focus

Company site: drugbank.com

Terms the company uses about its own work.

Biomedical knowledge graphDrug data licensingClinical API

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