Research Funded

Since 1925, the Banting Research Foundation has awarded 1354 grants (totaling $8 million) to outstanding early-career health and biomedical researchers across Canada. These impactful grants have enabled these young researchers to generate data to strengthen subsequent applications for longer-term grants from other funding agencies. Over the last decade, 88% of the researchers that we have funded were awarded prestigious and highly competitive federal agency research grants within five years of their first career appointment, underscoring our ability to recognize creative talent.

Many of our grants sparked remarkable discoveries that transformed the practice of medicine and surgery, reduced illness and death rates, and propelled many of our recipients to positions of leadership and influence across Canada. Our alumni have been recognized through the most prestigious scientific and lifetime achievement honours and awards in Canada. They include 29 recipients inducted into the Order of Canada, 24 Canada Gairdner Foundation International Award Laureates, and make up 18% of the Laureates of the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.