About SRI

Profile

• Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is a fully affiliated research and teaching hospital with the University of Toronto.
• Research spans two Toronto-based campuses: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the Holland Musculoskeletal Centre.
• Total research funding at SRI has tripled since 1998. Total funding for 2010/2011 was $122 million.
• Research space at Sunnybrook comprises 250,000 square feet, including 150,000 square feet for the Centre for Research in Image-Guided Therapeutics.

Research personnel

• SRI has over 200 scientists and clinician-scientists.
• In total, SRI has 893 research staff. Working with SRI scientists are 282 highly skilled personnel (including research associates, engineers, physicists, laboratory technicians and research assistants) and 375 trainees.
• All scientists at SRI teach at the University of Toronto, within the faculty of medicine.
• Ten SRI researchers hold Canada Research Chairs, the most prestigious award granted by the federal government.
• Three SRI researchers hold departmental chairs at the University of Toronto: one in each of immunology, medical biophysics and medical imaging.

Structure

There are three scientific platforms:

• Biological sciences
• Evaluative clinical sciences
• Physical sciences

Each scientist aligns with a discipline and one of eight clinical programs:

• Brain Sciences Research Program
  
• Holland Musculoskeletal Research Program
• Odette Cancer Research Program
• Schulich Heart Research Program
• St. John's Rehab Research Program
• Trauma, Emergency and Critical Care Research Program
  
• Veterans & Community Research Program
  
• Women & Babies Research Program
  

Fact sheet

Download the new Sunnybrook Research Institute Fact Sheet (PDF) for more information, including details on large-scale capital projects and consortia, partnerships, and commercialization.