Two UTM Biology Research Projects Receive CFI Funding
On August 12, 2021, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced more than $77 million to support 332 research infrastructure projects at 50 universities across the country. This contribution, through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF), will help universities attract and retain top researchers.
The CFI’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund helps exceptional researchers at universities across the country conduct leading-edge research by giving them the tools and equipment they need to become leaders in their field.
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The Department of Biology at University of Toronto Mississauga is proud to announce that two of our faculty were among the 27 at U of T to share more than $8.2 million in funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund: Mark Currie (Structural Biology Laboratory) and Marcus Dillon (The evolutionary genomics of infectious phytopathogen emergence).