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Grant: Canada First Research Excellence Fund

Direct Payment

$85,482,000.00

Medicine by Design

FY 2014-15

Summary
The University of Toronto will bridge existing peaks of excellence within the regenerative medicine ecosystem in Toronto and Canada through new talent, partnerships and cross-cutting R&D platforms. This will create a holistic pipeline linking discovery science to commercial outputs across all biological scales - a globally unique capacity within a single cluster.
Program
Canada First Research Excellence FundCanada First Research Excellence Fund (linked with high confidence)
Location
Ontario, Canada
Type
Grant
Source
CIHR Funding Decisions Database

As published

Id
341980
Name
Gertler Meric
Region
Ontario
Country
Canada
Orgtype
Research Institution
Partnername
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Prcname2
Special Cases - Awards Programs
Projecttitle
Medicine by Design
Programtype2
Undefined
Orgnameinp2
Direct Payment
Cihramount2
$85,482,000
Cihrequipment2
$0
Programname2
Canada First Research Excellence Fund
Keyworddelim
Biomaterials; Cell Imaging; Cell Manufacturing; Cell Therapy; Computational Biology; Genetically Engineered Cells; Nanotechnology; Optogenetics; Organ Transplant; Scaffolds; Synthetic Biology; Systems Biology
Abstract
The University of Toronto will bridge existing peaks of excellence within the regenerative medicine ecosystem in Toronto and Canada through new talent, partnerships and cross-cutting R&D platforms. This will create a holistic pipeline linking discovery science to commercial outputs across all biological scales - a globally unique capacity within a single cluster.
Competitiondate
201503
Approvedterm2
7 yrs 0 mth
Pinamesdelim
Gertler, Meric
Approvedterm
7 ans 0 mois
Cihrcontribution2
~ $85,482,000~ $0~