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IFP Catalyst Grant Program

Institute for Pandemics: Catalyst and research development grant program — call for proposals

The IfP catalyst and development grants aim to provide seed funding to help U of T researchers, from multiple disciplines, connect and collaborate on projects related to pandemic readiness, resilience, and recovery.

Jacqueline Watt (left) and Lauren Ramsay are PhD students at the University of Toronto working to tackle tuberculosis.

World Tuberculosis Day: How EPIC researchers at U of T are making an impact

Members of the University of Toronto’s Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium are working to tackle TB from multiple angles, from creating better vaccines to gaining a deeper understanding of TB’s financial toll on patients and families.

AI could develop cancer treatments in less than a month

In less than a month, researchers from University of Toronto’s Acceleration Consortium, in partnership with Insilico Medicine, have designed a potential treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), an aggressive and common form of liver cancer that claims approximately 700,000 lives each year. The study is the first to use AlphaFold — an AI-powered protein structure database — in an end-to-end AI drug discovery platform called Pharma.AI.

Tanenbaum Institute for Science in Sport (TISS) launches call for Research Accelerator Funding

The Tanenbaum Institute for Science in Sport (TISS) is pleased to announce its inaugural 2023-2024 call for funding support for research project proposals. Project proposals from a wide range of disciplines are welcomed and there is a portion of the funding that is specifically designated for projects related to sports analytics, modeling and data science research within sport. LOI Submission Deadline: April 09, 2023

Inlight Strategic Research Grant Program - Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility and Indigeneity (EDIAI)

Inlight has launched a Strategic Research Grant call to support student mental health and wellness research that aims to advance understanding and impact of the intersectionality of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility and Indigeneity (EDIAI) on student mental health and wellbeing at the University of Toronto. Deadline: March 29, 2023

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