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About SRI

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  • Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is a fully affiliated research and teaching hospital with the University of Toronto.
  • Research spans three Toronto-based campuses: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Holland Centre and St. John's Rehab.
  • Research space at Sunnybrook comprises 250,000 square feet, including 150,000 square feet for the world's first Centre for Research in Image-Guided Therapeutics.
  • Recognized as a Centre of Excellence by the Focused Ultrasound Foundation, the first site in Canada—and one of only seven in the world—to receive this honour. Sunnybrook has one of the most comprehensive and successful focused ultrasound research programs in the world, with technical, scientific and clinical experts accelerating progress in the field.

Research personnel

  • SRI has more than 300 scientists and clinician-scientists.
  • In total, SRI has 1,309 research staff. Working with scientists are 573 highly skilled biomedical and research personnel, and 457 postdoctoral fellows and other trainees.
  • All scientists at SRI teach at the University of Toronto, within the faculty of medicine.
  • Eleven SRI researchers hold Canada Research Chairs.

Structure

There are three scientific platforms:

Scientists at SRI work in one of ten clinical research areas, corresponding to Sunnybrook’s programs: