Undergraduate Awards

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)   

       Award information and Application Deadline: TBA in 2024

  • University of Toronto Excellence Awards (UTEA) Program

       Award information and Application Deadline: TBA in 2024

  • National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
  •  Undergraduate Students Research Award (USRA)

         Award information and Application Deadline: TBA in 2024

New this year, students who self-identify as Black or Indigenous will be funded by NSERC above and beyond the department allocation.

     Application Deadline: TBA in 2024

Two professors and a student hold a certificate.

Undergraduate Award Recipient - Colin Bayliss and Christopher Perumalla Awards
The Colin Bayliss Award is awarded for outstanding performance in the undergraduate Physiology Specialist Program at the University of Toronto.

The Christopher Perumalla Award was created in 2014 and is awarded to the top undergraduate student in the Physiology Major Program at the University of Toronto.