The 2021 Discovery Award Winners are all here. Find out more

Discover our awardees

Mitacs-Banting Discovery Awards

The Banting Research Foundation is very pleased to announce a new partnership with Mitacs that will double the number of Discovery Awards for the coming year.  Six emerging biomedical researchers will receive the new Mitacs-Banting Discovery Award, valued at $25,000 each.

The Co-funded Discovery Awards reflect the shared commitment of Mitacs and the Banting Research Foundation to identify and catalyze Canadian talent to build our nation’s innovation capacity.

Press Release

100 Years of Insulin

Stories on what the discovery can teach us about one of the most widespread health crises of our time.  U of T Med Magazine

100 Years of Insulin: stories on current research, news and events on this year-long celebration. Events line up here

 

Support Us
 

Together with our donors and volunteers, we are 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.

Our Mission

To invest in the early careers of researchers who demonstrate excellence and creativity in health and biomedical sciences.

Discovery Award

We provide research grants to the highest ranked applicants in our annual peer-reviewed competition.

Our Impact

As the oldest Canadian medical research charity, we have awarded over 1350 grants to early-career researchers across Canada.

Latest News & Stories

Updates on our awardees, research funded, and more!
News

Banting-CANSSI Discovery Award Winners

The Banting Research Foundation and CANSSI Ontario are pleased to announce that the 2021 Discovery Award in Data Science scholars are Drs. Glen McGee and Alanna Weisman. Dr. Glen McGee intends to develop statistical tools to characterize and correct biases…

News

96th Annual Banting Discovery Award Winners

Every year, the Foundation presents six awards but this year is special. To mark the centenary year of the discovery of insulin, we have partnered with Mitacs to double the number of awards. A very special thanks to our partners…

Press Release

Announcing the 2021 Discovery Awards

Toronto, ON – Mitacs and the Banting Research Foundation are proud to announce the winners of the 96th Annual Banting Research Foundation Discovery Awards.  This year, 12 investigators – 50% of whom are women – have been awarded one-year grants…

In Memoriam

Remembering Banting Alumni, “founding father of genetics”…

Dr. Lou Siminovitch (Discovery Award recipient 1958) was a lover of science – an outstanding Canadian scientist who made brilliant contributions to cell virology, stem cell research and the field of genetics. As a scientific visionary, he mentored and influenced several generations…

What Our Awardees Say About Us

We provide support at a pivotal time for early-career researchers.

Please accept our sincere thanks and trust that these funds were central in advancing our work on head protection.

Christopher Dennison

Assistant Professor at University of Alberta, 2016 Discovery Awardee

Early support of the Foundation was very helpful in setting my course towards the Gairdner Wightman award.

Janet Rossant

Professor at University of Toronto, 1983 Awardee

Assistance from my award helped me on my path to becoming the advocate, scientist, and academic leader I am today.

Imogen Coe

Professor at Ryerson University and advocate for EDI in STEM, 1998 Awardee

[the grant] was essential to the survival and development of my research lab at a very difficult time of funding…

Tara Moriarty

Assistant Professor at University of Toronto, 2011 Discovery Awardee

Owing to the generous Banting Discovery Award we where able to significantly advance our research program.

Florian Bentzinger

Assistant Professor at Universite de Sherbrooke, 2017 Discovery Awardee

Success begets success so smaller grants like the Discovery Award can make a big difference to early career investigators ...

Jennifer Gordon

Assistant Professor at University of Regina, 2017 Discovery Awardee