Previously Funded Initiatives
Toronto Population Network will be an interdisciplinary academic hub aimed at addressing the most pressing challenges related to population dynamics, such as health disparities, housing, migration, fertility, family structures, aging, and mortality. This initiative will unite experts from sociology, public health, social work, economics, geography, and political science to provide a multi-faceted perspective on these issues and generate actionable solutions to pressing social concerns.
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The CRIB is a multidisciplinary research centre that focuses on advancing research, policy, and practice for Black survivors of homicide victims using community-engaged methods and principles. The CRIB develops culturally responsive research, impactful policy, evidence-based practice, and training for service providers and community based agencies who work with Black survivors of homicide victims.
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The One Health approach represents an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary framework that promotes systems thinking to address the greatest challenges of our time, including degradation of natural systems, emerging pathogens, and increasing food and health insecurity.
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Transportation and mobility touch virtually all aspects of our lives. The Mobility Network is a multidisciplinary, collaborative, and diverse network of mobility researchers that connects the University of Toronto’s exceptional strengths in data sciences, engineering and social sciences to address the technological, social, environmental and health disruptions facing society globally. Through interdisciplinary basic and applied research Mobility Network will identify pathways to more equitable and efficient urban mobility, provide the evidence and decision-support needed for effective and lasting societal change, and have profound implications for individual well-being, resilient, sustainable and just urban growth and prosperity, and, ultimately, our planet’s future.
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Medicine by Design was created in 2015 with a $114-million investment from the federal government’s Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) to bring together researchers at U of T and its affiliated hospitals at the convergence of science, engineering and medicine to advance regenerative medicine discoveries. Building on a long-standing partnership, Medicine by Design has transitioned in 2025 to become CCRM’s link to the academic research community.
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The goal of the Indigenous Research Network (IRN) is to build an interconnected and collaborative community of researchers involved in Indigenous research at UofT that respects and honours Indigenous cultures, knowledge, past and present. This multi-campus, multi-dimensional network will include faculty members and staff involved in research related to the challenges Indigenous Peoples and communities face and will promote curricular transformations required to address these challenges.
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The Critical Digital Humanities Initiative (CDHI) enables trans-disciplinary collaborations that emphasize questions of power, social justice, and critical theory in digital humanities research. Its vision is to harness the very tools of the digital revolution to forge a new paradigm of critical humanities scholarship, one that bridges the humanities’ emphasis on power and culture in historical perspective with the tools and analysis of digital technology. The CDHI is new mix of research workshop and design atelier, equipping humanities researchers with the technical and design expertise to use digital tools to ask new questions, share new knowledge, and analyze power and inequality in historical perspective.
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CABIN takes an interdisciplinary approach to innovation in the monoclonal antibodies space, leveraging U of T's expertise and partnerships to develop effective mAb technologies, streamline biomanufacturing, and enhance patient delivery methods. CABIN's research program focuses on novel mAb generation platforms, AI-driven development, and alternative delivery methods like mRNA.
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The vision of the Black Research Network (BRN) is to promote Black excellence at U of T and to enhance the research capacity of Black scholars within the university and on the world stage. This includes increasing the visibility of Black scholars’ research accomplishments by sustaining a cross-divisional, interdisciplinary, network of Black scholars and facilitating robust research engagement across the University of Toronto and internationally. The BRN includes U of T Black-identified faculty (research and teaching stream), librarians, postdoctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students. The BRN envisions deep connections with Black communities outside of the U of T, and also holds space for non-Black colleagues committed to addressing anti-Black racism to work alongside BRN members to achieve the goals of the network.
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