Appliations for Graduate Students

All applications will be considered but NEW students and PDFs will be given preference.  The definition of "new" is a candidate from another institution and not yet working in the lab of the supervisor, or a recent trainee that has joined the supervisor’s lab within the past 12 months.

The next application deadline is TBA.

Funding level of $20,000/year ($25,000/year for foreign students) to a maximum of 3 years.  (M.Sc. Students will be funded for one year, with a possibility of renewal for a second year, and will only continue to be funded if they transfer to a Ph.D. program).  The top-up amount of funding for the student is the responsibility of the supervisor and will likely have to fulfill the graduate student guidelines of the student’s home department.

Students possessing a scholarship of equal or greater value (currently $20K) for 1 year or more at the time of application to the program, will not be eligible for funding. Students who obtain an award of equal or greater value after entering the BT program will have their funding from the BT program cease when the other award commences. However, in both cases the student is still welcome to be a member of the training program and participate in all activities, as long as the other admission and participation criteria are met.

Application Instructions for Graduate Students

Please bring one complete paper copy to
Rob Reedijk
room 904 of the Leslie Dan Pharmacy Building at the University of Toronto.
Questions can be directed to Rob at 416-978-0774 rob.reedijk@utoronto.ca.

The following are required:
1.            A 1-page project description of the project that includes one or several links to biological therapeutics.  The project can be basic science in nature but must still have a link to biological therapeutics.  The primary supervisor submitting the trainee application must be identified along with the secondary supervisor. Both the primary and secondary supervisors must be members of the program (please see Faculty for a list of faculty mentors). As there is a limit to the number of trainees per supervisor, the application will count only for the primary but not the secondary supervisor (i.e. someone listed as a secondary supervisor on one or more applications can also submit an application under their own name as the primary).  Also include a brief description of what the trainee will do in the secondary lab and the estimated length of time in the secondary lab.  The minimum total time in the secondary lab must be 1 month; there is no upper limit on the time spent in the secondary lab.  There is no need to identify the off-site industrial internship at the time of this deadline.
2.            the CV of the graduate student.  Any format is acceptable but it should be complete and clear.
3.            course transcripts from the students file from a B.Sc. or M.Sc.
degree.
4.            TWO letters of reference (one of these could be from the current or
proposed supervisor)

Please note that if accepted, the Trainee will be required to submit a progress report/questionaire each year on October 1. The forms will be available from the program.