Undergraduate Awards and Student Research Opportunities

Undergraduate Awards

DR. WALTER ROSCHLAU MEMORIAL AWARD IN PHARMACOLOGY

This award recognizes excellence from within our undergraduate student population. The award is given to the top graduating student from our Departmental Bachelor of Science Honours programs and is awarded during the annual Visions in Pharmacology (VIP) Research Day. Past award winners include:

2016-2017: Isabelle Laksono, Sing Yung Regina Chu, and Zhi Hui (Charlie Yang)
2015-2016: Mable (Wing Yan) Chan
2014-2015: Alexander Pan
2013-2014: Roman Zyla
2012-2013: Yuxiao Sonny Chen
2011-2012: Bardia Abbasi

DEZSO KADAR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

This award is presented by the Division of Teaching Laboratories and recognizes the top student within the Undergraduate Laboratory course. Past award winners include:

2016-2017: Hailey French
2015-2016: Yu Ting (Cherry) Lin
2014-2015: Winnie Yi Ying Wang
2013-2014: Xiaoyun Lu
2012-2013: Yuxiao Sonny Chen
2011-2012: Bardia Abbasi

GRADUATE AND LIFE SCIENCES EDUCATION UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT LEADERSHIP AWARD

These awards provide opportunities for undergraduate students in the Faculty of Medicine, Arts and Science Programs to be recognized for their leadership and scholarship. The award carries a value of $500 each. Please visit the Student Leadership Award page for further information. Past winners from the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology include:

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 for 2019...

Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP)
Modification to the UROP Guidelines: In addition, students who have completed an undergraduate degree and have been accepted into a graduate program but have not yet begun are also eligible to apply.
- General medicine / health research in other areas (1 award)
- Cancer and cancer related diseases (1 award)
- Dr. John P. Mitchell Award in the disease area cancer (1 award)
Graduate and Life Sciences Education (GLSE) Undergraduate Summer Research Project Studentships (1 award)
Departmental Summer Student Research Award (1 award)

THE INTERNAL APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR THE ABOVE AWARDS IS March 18, 2019

Natural Sciences Engineering Research Council (NSERC) - Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) (1 award)
- Internal application deadline: March 1, 2019
- NSERC online application deadline: March 18, 2019
University of Toronto Excellence Award - Natural Sciences & Engineering (UTEA-NSE) (To be announced)

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.

A description of undergraduate research student expectations can be found here:

URO - Research Expectations.pdf (12.04 KB)