Quick statistics

Each dollar we receive is invested in high-impact discovery and innovation

Major sources of funding 2015–2016

Total funding: $99 Million

Total funding: $99 Million

  Sources $(M) %
Canada Foundation for Innovation 9.5 9.6
Contracts With Other Private/Public Organizations 11.9 12
Industry 12.9 13.1
Internal Funding 14.1 14.3
Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science 2.7 2.7
Other Government Sources Within Canada 8 8
Private Sector Funding From Philanthropic
Organizations
25 25.3
Tricouncil Funding: CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC;
also includes Canada Research Chairs Program
13.3 13.4
U.S. Government 1.6 1.6

Research staff

Total staff: 1,338

Total staff: 116 senior scientists and scientists, 68 associate scientists, 127 affiliate scientists, 111 research associates, engineers, physicists and technologists, 64 postdoctoral fellows, 474 research assistants and coordinators, lab and project managers, programmers and data analysts, and technicians, and 378 graduate, undergraduate and high school students