Student Research Opportunities

Please stay tuned, a new application process will be launched in February 2025.  The deadline for all student applications is February 25, 2025.

Please read student eligibility criteria for each award carefully and reach out to supervisors in the Department.  

• Undergraduate Award Student Eligibility

The Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology is pleased to offer the following categories of summer research awards to undergraduate students on a competitive basis:

Undergraduate Research Opportunity Award (UROP)

Awards will be provided in the following research areas:

• CA Cancer and Cancer Related Diseases (4 awards)

• CA-JPM Dr. John P Mitchell Cancer Research Fund (1 award)

• CH Cardiovascular, Heart (1 award)

• GM General Medical (Health Research in Any Area) (2 awards)

• KD Kidney and Kidney Related Diseases (3 awards)

• RE Respiratory Disease (1 award)

Undergraduate Summer Research Studentship (USRS) (1 award)

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology 

• Susan R. George Summer Research Student Award (2 awards)

University of Toronto Excellence Awards (UTEA)  (TBA, number of awards)

• Supervisors must be campus-based, i.e. have their primary budgetary appointment in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine (status-only faculty are no longer eligible) 

• A supervisor must be a principal investigator (PI) who holds an active tri-agency grant or has a pending application with one of those agencies at the start date of the UTEA (May 1st) (co-investigators are no longer eligible)

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) (TBA, number of awards)

• Eligible faculty must hold a tenured, tenure-track or professor emeritus position or a contract position of no less than three continuous years.

• Eligible faculty must be eligible to hold an NSERC (but do not currently have to have one) and must also have primary appointment and/or funds administered by the Department

For additional undergraduate research opportunities, please see the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Database.

Other Research Opportunities:

PCL297H

PCL397Y

PCL472Y

PCL474Y

JPM400Y