Upcoming Awards & Honours Deadlines

The Faculty of Medicine Research Office maintains a directory of prestigious external awards. Deadlines and eligibility for these recognition opportunities are tracked below.

If you plan to submit a nomination for a national or international honour or award, please notify Golnaz Farhat (golnaz.farhat@utoronto.ca), Grants & Awards Editor, (416)-978-3488 in the Faculty of Medicine Research Office. The Research and Innovation Office provides support and oversight for major award nominations.

New Online Tool for Research and Innovation Honours & Awards
The Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation is pleased to introduce a new resource to help our community plan nominations for research and innovation honours and awards. Honours and awards are an important element of faculty recognition, offering national and international markers of excellence as well as career development and funding opportunities. The Honours and Awards Opportunities for Faculty database is an online tool on the Research and Innovation website that offers:

Permanent entries for over 150 major national and international honour and award opportunities, with up-to-date confirmed or projected deadlines and nomination parameters
Browsing and searching capabilities available to any user with a UTORid
Filtering by keyword, discipline, career stage, and other parameters
Guidelines to U of T’s internal processes for awards that require institutional nominations
Information about previous U of T winners, where applicable
Contact information for award coordinators within our academic divisions

Deadlines are projected up to two years into the future, aiding planning for opportunities that occur biennially or for which deadlines have recently passed

Notable Award and Fellowship Opportunities for Early- and Mid-Career Faculty Natural, Applied and Medical Sciences
Opportunity	Eligibility*	Nominations
Douglas R. Colton Medal, CMC Microsystems National prize for work in Microsystems/Nanotechnology	PhD within last 3 years (at Canadian university)	September
John Charles Polanyi Prizes, Council of Ontario Universities Provincial prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology/Medicine 3 candidates per field per year; competition managed by School of Graduate Studies	PhD within last 4 years*	December
Gold Leaf Prize for Outstanding Achievements by an Early Career Investigator, CIHR National prize for early-career research in the Health Sciences	Faculty appt. for 0-10 years	September (biennial)
Sloan Research Fellowships, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation International 2-year fellowships for outstanding fundamental research in Chemistry, Computational or Evolutionary Molecular Biology, Computer Science, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Ocean Sciences, Physics, or a related field	PhD within last 7 years*	September
E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowships, NSERC National 2-year fellowships for highly promising scientists and engineers	PhD within last 12 years*	June
College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, Royal Society of Canada National college of excellent emerging scholars in any discipline	PhD within last 15 years	March
Steacie Prize for Natural Sciences, E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fund National prize for outstanding scientific research in science or engineering	Age 40 or younger	June
Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre International prize for achievements in Cancer Research	Age 45 or younger	April (biennial)
Royal-Mach-Gaensslen Prize, The Royal’s Institute of Mental Health Research National prize for research in the field of Mental Health	Age 45 or younger	July
NAS Award in Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences International award for notable discoveries in Molecular Biology	Age 45 or younger US citizens	October
Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences, Foundation for the National Institutes of Health International prize for outstanding achievement in Biomedical Research	Age 52 or younger	September
*Starred opportunities allow exceptions for candidates whose careers were disrupted for various reasons. Please see websites for details.