The Banting Research Foundation Celebrates 100 Years Since Banting’s Nobel Prize Win This year marks the 100th anniversary of Sir Frederick Banting’s Nobel Prize win for the discovery of insulin. The Banting Research Foundation, established to honor his legacy, is commemorating this important milestone. Banting’s discovery of insulin revolutionized the treatment of diabetes, which at…
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The Innovations of Dr. Jeffrey Leyton: Enhancing Cancer Treatment with Antibody-Conjugates
The Innovations of Dr. Jeffrey Leyton: Enhancing Cancer Treatment with Antibody-Conjugates Meet Dr. Jeffrey Leyton, recipient of a 2014 Banting Research Foundation Discovery Award and an Associate Professor at the Université de Sherbrooke – CHUS in the Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology in Canada. Dr. Leyton is a biochemist and a molecular biologist with…
From the Lab to the Gym: Translating Scientific Discoveries About Exercise and Cognition into Real-World Applications
From the Lab to the Gym: Translating Scientific Discoveries About Exercise and Cognition into Real-World Applications Matthieu Boisgontier, an associate professor at the University of Ottawa, and past Banting Discovery Award recipient, led a new study looking at the link between exercise and memory. His study analyzed data for almost 350,000 people to show that…
Celebrating International Women’s Day
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.
The Banting Foundation successfully auctioned two landscape paintings by Sir Frederick Banting
Congratulations on a successful auction! The Banting Foundation is very grateful for the kind support of the Heffel Fine Art auction in the selling of two landscape paintings by Sir Frederick Banting. The auction on November 24, 2022 raised funds in support of our Discovery Award program for early career biomedical investigators. Heffel Fine Art Auction…
LAURÉATES ET LAURÉATS DES PRIX DÉCOUVERTE BANTING 2022
English La Fondation de recherche Banting a récemment annoncé les six remarquables récipiendaires des Prix Découverte 2022. Offrant une subvention d’un an pouvant aller jusqu’à 30 000 $, ces prix récompensent les idées audacieuses de la fine fleur de la recherche en sciences de la santé et biomédicales innovantes dans le cadre d’un concours fondé sur l’évaluation par…
2022 Discovery Award Recipients Announced
Français Toronto, ON – The Banting Research Foundation recently announced the outstanding six recipients of the 2022 Discovery Awards. This award, a one-year grant of up to $30,000, recognizes the highest ranked applicants in an annual peer-reviewed competition for their big bold ideas in innovative health and biomedical research. The award presented since 1925 marks for…
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Canada must urgently invest in research into the health impacts of climate change [Toronto Star]
To fight climate change, Canada needs to increasing funding research, particularly to early-career researchers in health and biomedical sciences. To continue reading about the need to increase funding for early-career researchers, click here for the article on the Toronto Star’s website.
Canada can’t afford to leave research out of the innovation conversation [The Hill Times]
To date, in the hopes of commercializing key biopharma products like vaccines, Canada has delivered significant dollars directly to companies. While this will certainly help bolster the industry—or at least elements of its operation—what’s further needed are investments in fundamental research in health and biomedicine. To continue reading about the need to further fund innovation,…
Other countries are investing in young researchers. Canada must up its game or fall behind [Toronto Star]
‘We need focused investments to attract and retain the top young scientists who can contribute to all spheres of health.’ To read more about this piece, click here for the article on the Toronto Star.
In the global race for science talent, is Canada investing enough? [Policy Options]
Now is the time for Canada to also invest in people, and in particular young people. For our part, the Banting Research Foundation, and the Dr. Charles H. Best Foundation have proposed creating a discovery-investigator program on par with our global competitors for Canada’s most-talented young scientists who can contribute to the fields of health and biomedicine. To…
New Mitacs-Banting Fellowship Program will Address Climate Change, Health and Equity
Toronto — A new partnership between Mitacs and the Banting Research Foundation will address health disparity and inequality in Canada to support postdoctoral scholars in research to reduce the health risks and inequities caused by climate change. The Mitacs-Banting Discovery Postdoctoral Fellowship will help Canada lead the world in understanding the links between health, equity,…