Undergraduate Research Opportunities Database

Join the Institute of Medical Science this summer to gain valuable research experience. For more information, visit the IMS Summer Undergraduate Research Program webpage.

2024 Cycle

Applications due February 27, 2024.

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Do you love to teach science and medical concepts? Are you the next Bill Gal/Guy? Join us this summer to teach youth from across Canada and the World.

The MED YSP program delivers university-level science classes in an accessible and engaging manner. In order to ensure the quality of delivery, the process of selecting instructors is rigorous to ensure that only those individuals with the necessary skill, experience and passion, for sharing their knowledge and inspiring a younger generation of Canadian students, are hired.

Instructors come from diverse academic backgrounds that span the fields of human biology, microbiology, biochemistry, physiology to toxicology and allow instructors to work collaboratively during the program to deliver the four one-week long modules. Lectures, labs, demonstrations, discussion panels and informal conversations are employed to educate the students in the knowledge and mechanics of science. The YSP philosophy is to have inquisitive young minds from across Canada come together at a world-class institution where they can work with and teach students the beauty of science. Visit the MED YSP webpage to learn more and apply.

2024 Cycle

Applications will be available in January 2024.

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Join the Department of Medical Biophysics this summer and gain experience in biomedical research. To learn more, visit the Summer Student Program webpage. 

2024 Cycle

Applications due January 17, 2024.

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The Natural Sciences and Engineering and Research Council (NSERC) of Canada’s Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) provides financial support so you can engage in research work experience that aligns with your academic interests. This experience will help to position you for future graduate studies in natural sciences and engineering.

The institution allocates a limited number of awards to departments and you apply directly to the departments for these awards. We will post information for the current cycle in January or February of each year. For your reference, you can review information about last year's program.

2024 Cycle

Applications will be available in January or February 2024. 

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The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada offers awards for Black and/or Indigenous students to pursue research work experiences within the respective fields. Institutions may recommend applications from self-identified Black and Indigenous student researchers for USRAs beyond the institution's allocation of awards. When applying for these NSERC USRAs, students must identify as Black or Indigenous within the application. For additional information, please review the NSERC USRA webpage and the University of Toronto Funding Opportunities Database.

2024 Cycle

Applications are due April 17, 2024.

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The Research Shadowing Program aims to give students a glimpse into the research environment and the opportunity to ask questions they may have about the graduate student experience.  Students will be paired with graduate student or post-doc mentors.  Program mentors will give an overview of the nature of their research and how it may tie with concepts undergraduate students have learned in their courses.  Additionally, students will have an opportunity to shadow their mentor as they perform their experiments and daily tasks.

The program will take place between February 5 – 23, 2024. The length of the shadowing experience can range from 1 to 3 days and must be mutually agreed upon by the undergraduate student and their mentor.  The specific schedule and shadowing activities (which may take place in-person and/or online via Zoom, MS Teams, Facetime, etc.) will be at the discretion of the mentor. 

All U of T Life Science undergraduate students are welcome to apply, regardless of year or program of study. 

Note: Students will be paired with available mentors on a first-come, first-served basis, with priority given to those students who have no prior research experience.

What Participants are Saying:

"The Temerty Faculty of Medicine RHSE Research Shadowing Program is an invaluable opportunity to expose undergraduate life science students to research. As a program participant, this experience fuelled a passion for medical research that I plan to embark on as I pursue my career in healthcare. Guided by my mentor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, my exposure to the wet laboratory setting at the Krembil Research Institute was enlightening. Through our group shadowing experience, I gained insight from her day-to-day tasks as a postdoctoral fellow and navigated various laboratory techniques, including protein fluorescence, cell culturing, and microscopy in relation to her project—investigating the impacts of positive alpha-synuclein on neurodegenerative diseases. Not only did the experience provide a glimpse of the research environment, but offered valuable mentorship for my professional development and an opportunity to network with other life science undergraduate students. As I pursue future endeavours in research, I am sincerely grateful for the exposure to scientific inquiry that the the RHSE program provided me with at the University of Toronto." 

-- Lauren, D., 2024 participant

2024 Cycle

Applications are now being accepted. Applications are due January 22, 2024.

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The Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Sinai Health offers undergraduate students the opportunity to engage in research during the summer. For more information, including eligibility and application details, please visit the LTRI Summer Research Program webpage.

2024 Cycle

Applications due March 1, 2024.

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Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) provides an opportunity for undergraduate students to gain hands-on experience in a hospital-based research program. For more information, please visit the SRI Hurvitz Brain Sciences Summer Student Research Program webpage.

2024 Cycle

TBA.

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Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) offers undergraduate students a unique hospital-based research opportunity. For more information and to apply, visit the SRI Summer Student Research Program webpage 

2024 Cycle

TBA.

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The Office of Research Trainees at UHN offers students a chance to engage in a summer research project under the supervision of a UHN scientist. For more information, visit the Summer Student Program webpage.

2024 Cycle

Applications are now being accepte.d Application deadlines vary.

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