Upcoming Awards & Honours Deadlines

Overview

The Temerty Faculty of Medicine Research Office maintains a directory of prestigious external awards. Deadlines and eligibility for these recognition opportunities are tracked below.

If you plan to submit a nomination for a national or international honour or award, please notify Alex De Serrano (a.deserrano@utoronto.ca), Research Funding, Awards and Honours Officer, or Golnaz Farhat (golnaz.farhat@utoronto.ca), Strategic Research Development Officer, (416)-978-3488 in the Faculty of Medicine Research Office. The Research and Innovation Office provides support and oversight for major award nominations.

Temerty Medicine Research Excellence Award

The Office of the Vice Dean, Research and Innovation is pleased to announce a new internal award for faculty at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, the Temerty Medicine Research Excellence Award. Through a generous endowment from the Temerty family, this award will celebrate the innovative research and accomplishments of our faculty. Two prizes of $5,000 each will be awarded to successful applicants. In addition, the winning applicants will have their submission materials revised and submitted to an external award in the 12-month period following the award competition. The external award will be selected in consultation with the applicant and an awards review committee.

Deadline and Submission: To be considered for the award, applicants must complete the Temerty Faculty of Medicine Awards Dossier and submit it through this fillable form.
Deadline for 2022 session TBA.

New Online Tool for Research and Innovation Honours & Awards

The Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation is pleased to introduce a new resource to help our community plan nominations for research and innovation honours and awards. Honours and awards are an important element of faculty recognition, offering national and international markers of excellence as well as career development and funding opportunities. The Honours and Awards Opportunities for Faculty database is an online tool on the Research and Innovation website that offers:

Permanent entries for over 150 major national and international honour and award opportunities, with up-to-date confirmed or projected deadlines and nomination parameters
Browsing and searching capabilities available to any user with a UTORid
Filtering by keyword, discipline, career stage, and other parameters
Guidelines to U of T’s internal processes for awards that require institutional nominations
Information about previous U of T winners, where applicable
Contact information for award coordinators within our academic divisions

Deadlines are projected up to two years into the future, aiding planning for opportunities that occur biennially or for which deadlines have recently passed

Notable Award and Fellowship Opportunities for Early- and Mid-Career Faculty Natural, Applied and Medical Sciences

Opportunity	Eligibility*	Nominations
Gruber Prize in Neuroscience		December 15, 2021
Arrell Global Food Innovation Awards		January 14, 2022
Welch Award in Chemistry		January 28, 2022
(expected) Japan Prize in Life Sciences		January 31, 2022
Harvey Prize in: - Science and Technology - Human Health		February 1, 2022
US National Academy of Medicine Membership		February 1, 2022
Lasker Awards in: - Basic Medical Research - Clinical Medical Research - Public Service (biennial)		February 7, 2022
Grawemeyer Award in Psychology		Feburary 28, 2022
(expected) Community-Based Research Excellence Awards		March 1, 2022
Princess of Asturias Awards in Technical and Scientific Research		March 3, 2022
(expected) Keio Medical Science Prize		March 7, 2022
Balzan Prizes in Biomaterials for nanomedicine and tissue engineering		March 15, 2022
(expected) Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Fellowship		March 15, 2022
King Faisal International Prizes in: - Medicine: Pandemics and Vaccine Development - Science: Chemistry		March 31, 2022
Royal Society of Canada Medals and Awards		March 31, 2022
Douglas R. Colton Medal, CMC Microsystems National prize for work in Microsystems/Nanotechnology	PhD within last 3 years (at Canadian university)	September
John Charles Polanyi Prizes, Council of Ontario Universities Provincial prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology/Medicine 3 candidates per field per year; competition managed by School of Graduate Studies	PhD within last 4 years*	December
Gold Leaf Prize for Outstanding Achievements by an Early Career Investigator, CIHR National prize for early-career research in the Health Sciences	Faculty appt. for 0-10 years	September (biennial)
Sloan Research Fellowships, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation International 2-year fellowships for outstanding fundamental research in Chemistry, Computational or Evolutionary Molecular Biology, Computer Science, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Ocean Sciences, Physics, or a related field	PhD within last 7 years*	September
E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowships, NSERC National 2-year fellowships for highly promising scientists and engineers	PhD within last 12 years*	June
College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, Royal Society of Canada National college of excellent emerging scholars in any discipline	PhD within last 15 years	March
Steacie Prize for Natural Sciences, E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fund National prize for outstanding scientific research in science or engineering	Age 40 or younger	June
Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre International prize for achievements in Cancer Research	Age 45 or younger	April (biennial)
Royal-Mach-Gaensslen Prize, The Royal’s Institute of Mental Health Research National prize for research in the field of Mental Health	Age 45 or younger	July
NAS Award in Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences International award for notable discoveries in Molecular Biology	Age 45 or younger US citizens	October
Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences, Foundation for the National Institutes of Health International prize for outstanding achievement in Biomedical Research	Age 52 or younger	September
University of Toronto President’s Impact Awards and Carolyn Tuohy Impact on Public Policy Award. Detailed guidelines regarding eligibility and recommended nominators and endorsers are outlined on the President’s Impact Academy Selection Process webpage. To access the online nomination form and instructions, please see the Prepare a Nomination webpage.		Internal deadline: October 21, 2021 Final deadline: November 11, 2021

*Starred opportunities allow exceptions for candidates whose careers were disrupted for various reasons. Please see websites for details.