U.S. funding and awards
There are a number of U.S. agencies, foundations and institutes that support biomedical research, scientific education and research in areas such as mathematics, computer science and the social sciences.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute: www.hhmi.org
National Institutes of Health: www.nih.gov
National Science Foundation: www.nsf.gov
Q In 2003 you gave a speech at the opening of MaRS
where you pointed out how disappointing Canada's
spending on R&D was and how we had to end the old
pattern of "invent in Canada and produce elsewhere."
Five years later how are we doing?
A I think there's been an acceptance of the importance
of these issues by everyone - government, academia and
the business community. And this has made things
better. For example, MaRS has turned into a wonderful
strategic initiative for bringing people and ideas
together. And we're making progress also in the venture
capital area with new pockets of dollars like the
Ontario Venture Capital Fund in which RBC is a partner.
But I guess everything has to have a "but". There
clearly is more work to be done.
According to Thomson ISI, The University of Toronto
ranks among the top three or four
universities in terms of research activity (both the
quality and the quantity). Only two universities in the
world (Harvard University and the University of Tokyo)
received higher publication scores than the University
of Toronto.
