Together with our donors and volunteers, we're launching health and biomedical discovery across Canada.
We identify young Canadian researchers with limited resources who demonstrate excellence and creativity in health and biomedical science and provide them with Discovery Awards.
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Position: Executive Director (Part-time, estimate .80 FTE) Application deadline: May 8, 2020. The Banting Research Foundation seeks to recruit an Executive Director (approximately 4 days a week). The preferred candidate will have administrative experience in the not-for-profit sector related to…
Discovery Awardee Profile – Dr. Gareth Lim
By Krista Lamb – While we often think of obesity as a condition related to diet and exercise, the reality is that it’s much more complicated than just those two things. Many people who develop obesity will do so because…
Lindsay Bodell brings her science to the public
The Royal Canadian Institute for Science (RCIScience) recently held a public event in Toronto exploring the science behind dieting and healthy eating. The event entitled, “New Year New You: The Science of Healthy Eating,” featured a panel discussion with four…
Updates from the 2018 Discovery Awardees
With generous support from donors and volunteers in 2018, we supported 9 outstanding early career researchers across Canada. These researchers have since made significant progress on their research projects, expanded their research teams, received additional honours and awards, and secured…
What Our Awardees Say About Us
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Christopher Dennison
Early support of the Foundation was very helpful in setting my course towards the Gairdner Wightman award.
Janet Rossant
Assistance from my award helped me on my path to becoming the advocate, scientist, and academic leader I am today.
Imogen Coe
[the grant] was essential to the survival and development of my research lab at a very difficult time of funding…
Tara Moriarty
Owing to the generous Banting Discovery Award we where able to significantly advance our research program.
Florian Bentzinger
Success begets success so smaller grants like the Discovery Award can make a big difference to early career investigators ...