Student Research Opportunities

Summer Research Awards and Applications for Undergraduate Students can be found on the Research and Health Science Education (RHSE) website (online application portal launching soon). 

 Application deadline: February 28, 2025. 

Undergraduate award student eligibility_2.pdf

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

The Department of Physiology is pleased to offer the following categories of summer research awards to undergraduate students on a competitive basis

Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP)   

Awards will be provided to research associated with             

• CA Cancer and Cancer related Diseases (5 awards)
• CA-JPM Dr. John P. Mitchell Cancer Research Fund (1 award)
• GM General Medical (Health Research in Any Area) (3 awards)
• CH Cardiovascular, Heart (1 award)
• KD Kidney and Kidney Related Diseases (3 awards)
• RE Respiratory, Circulatory and Heart Diseases (2 awards)
•  EM Epilepsy & Multiple Sclerosis (1 award)

      Undergraduate Summer Research Studentship (USRS) (1 award)

      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) (2 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.
• If you would like to be considered for the NSERC USRA and/or NSERC Black Student USRA and/or CIHR Black Student USRA, you must indicate this on the RHSE online application.

• NSERC USRA Black Student Award:

  There will be a total of 24 NSERC USRA Black Student Awards for the university. These awards are competitive and will be adjudicated by the University of Toronto Research Services Office (RSO).

• NSERC USRA 2025 -Internal Application and guidelines_0.pdf