Undergraduate Awards and Student Research Opportunities

Undergraduate Awards

• Dr. Walter Roschlau Memorial Award in Pharmacology
• W. Mac Burnham Achievement Award
• Dezso Kadar Student Achievement Award
• Graduate and Life Sciences Education Undergraduate Student Leadership Award                                                                                              

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) (TBC)

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)