Montréal, Quebec-Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat
Throughout Canada, universities spur innovation, support scientific discoveries, and train tomorrow's researchers and workers. To ensure Canada remains at the forefront of research, innovation and wealth generation, the Government of Canada is investing in the success of our researchers.
Today, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced an investment of $1.4 billion in support for 11 large-scale research initiatives in strategic areas, through the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF). This investment will allow researchers at Canadian institutions to capitalize on the strengths of their respective research areas, and attract capital and world-class talent.
The funded initiatives will foster community, provincial, national and international partnerships across the academic, private and not-for-profit sectors, to deliver research leading to important social and economic benefits for Canadians.
This investment will support the following 11 large-scale research initiatives:
- McGill University: $165M for DNA to RNA: An Inclusive Canadian Approach to Genomic-based RNA Therapeutics (D2R)
- Memorial University of Newfoundland: $91M for Qanittaq Clean Arctic Shipping Initiative
- University of Ottawa: $109M for Brain-Heart InterConnectome
- Dalhousie University: $154M for Transforming Climate Action: Addressing the Missing Ocean
- University of Toronto: $199M for Acceleration Consortium: Self-Driving Labs for Molecular and Materials Discovery
- University of Victoria: $83M for Accelerating Community Energy Transformation
- Université de Montréal: $124M for R3AI: Shifting Paradigms for a Robust, Reasoning, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence and its Adoption
- York University: $105M for Connected Minds: Neural and Machine Systems for a Healthy, Just Society
- Concordia University: $123M for Electrifying Society: Towards Decarbonized Resilient Communities
- University of Calgary: $125M for One Child Every Child: A Transformational Child Health Research Initiative
- Toronto Metropolitan University: $98M for Migrant Integration in the mid-21st Century: Bridging Divides
From cutting carbon emissions in our communities, to treating and preventing brain and heart disease, to making discoveries through responsible artificial intelligence use, robotics and advanced computing, Canadian scientists are pioneering global insights and strengthening Canada's social and technological innovation ecosystems.
