Undergraduate Awards and Student Research Opportunities

Undergraduate Awards

Student Research Opportunities

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 Program (UROP)
- Health research in other areas, General Medicine (1 award)
- Dr. John P. Mitchell Award in the disease area cancer (1 award)
- Cardiovascular, Heart (1 award)
- Application Deadline: March 15, 2023 (extended)
Research and Health Science Education (RHSE)
- Undergraduate Summer Research Project Studentship (1 award)
- Application Deadline: March 15, 2023 (extended)
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
- Susan R. George Summer Research Student Award (2 awards)
- Application Deadline: March 15, 2023 (extended)
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
- Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) (1 award)
- New this year, students who self-identify as Black or Indigenous will be funded by NSERC above and beyond the department's allocation.
- Application Deadline: March 15, 2023 (extended)
University of Toronto Excellence Awards
- New this year, a Health & Life Sciences (HLS) sector was added and the competition will be adjudicated by the Temerty Faculty of Medicine.
- Application Deadline: March 15, 2023
CIHR and SSHRC Undergraduate Student Research Awards for Black Students
- This is a university-wide competition with 4 SSHRC and 9 CIHR awards in total.
- Please contact us if interested

For further information, please contact:

Undergraduate Program
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Medical Sciences Building
1 King's College Circle, Room 4207
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8
undergrad.pharmtox@utoronto.ca

Further summer student research opportunities through the Faculty of Medicine.

Learn more about undergraduate research student expectations.