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Advancing Cancer Research: Dr. Jeffrey Leyton's Novel Approaches to Targeted Therapy
Discover how Dr. Jeffrey Leyton's groundbreaking research is revolutionizing cancer treatment, with a focus on developing probes to accurately detect and treat muscle invasive bladder cancer.
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The Link Between Exercise and Memory: New Research Explained
Matthieu Boisgontier, a Banting Discovery awardee, led the strongest case to date that exercise improves cognition. New findings from his study, which analyzed data from 350,000 people, provide compelling evidence that regular exercise leads to much sharper thinking.
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Celebrating International Women's Day
Celebrating the achievements of women and their impact on the sciences. We were honored to have been invited to the Elegant International Women’s Day Charity Concert with the Toronto Elegant Lions Club, in support of the Banting Research Foundation.
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The Banting Foundation successfully auctions two landscape paintings by Sir Frederick Banting
The Banting Foundation is very grateful for the kind support of the Heffel Fine Art auction.
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Our Mission

To Invest in the early careers of researchers who demostrate 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.

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.

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Assistance from my award helped me on my path to becoming the advocate, scientist, and academic leader I am today.
Imogen Coe
Imogen CoeProfessor & Former Dean of Science, Toronto Metropolitan University (1998 Discovery Awardee)
Early support of the Foundation was very helpful in setting my course towards the Gairdner Wightman award.
Janet Rossant
Janet RossantChief of Research Emeritus & Senior Scientist, The Hospital for Sick Children (1983 Discovery Awardee)
Success begets success so smaller grants like the Discovery Award can make a big difference to early career investigators.
Jennifer Gordon
Jennifer GordonAssistant Professor, University of Regina (2017 Discovery Awardee)
The grant was essential to the survival and development of my research lab at a very difficult time of funding.
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Tara MoriartyAssistant Professor, University of Toronto (2011 Discovery Awardee)
Owing to the generous Banting Discovery Award we were able to significantly advance our research program.
Florian Bentzinger, PhD
Florian BentzingerAssistant Professor, Universite de Sherbrooke (2017 Discovery Awardee)
Please accept our sincere thanks and trust that these funds were central in advancing our work on head protection.
Christopher Dennison
Christopher DennisonAssistant Professor, University of Alberta (2016 Discovery Awardee)