Awards and Scholarships

Please use the U of T Award Explorer to explore the many additional awards available to MBP graduate students.

The following agencieds sponsor scholarships, awards and bursaries available to MBP graduate students. Please visit these pages for more information:

• CIHR
• NSERC
• OGS
• OSAP

The purpose of this prize is to recognize three PhD students (basic, applied and translational) for outstanding academic achievements, annually. Selection criteria are based on the overall quality of students’ PhD theses, with a specific focus on publications, patents, development of devices/methods, contributions to clinical practice and knowledge translation.

Outstanding students should be nominated by their exam committee at the time of their PhD defense (see attached nomination form). Award winners will be selected from all nominated candidates spanning a 12-months period prior to the deadline (August 31st of each year) by the awards committee (Dr. Chuck Cunningham, Dr. Thomas Kislinger, Dr. Lothar Lilge, Dr. Stanley Liu, Dr. John Sled and Dr. Greg Stanisz).

The award, together with a certificate and $2,000 cash prize, will be presented at the annual Departmental Retreat.

Candidates nominated by their exam committee are expected to send their CV, highlighting specific academic achievements, to the MBP office. The CVs together with the nomination forms will be used by the awards committee to select the top candidate in each category.

Download the MBP PhD Achievement Award nomination form.

This prize was created to honour the memories of Conrad Walker (1973-1997) and Raymond Marshall (1959-1993), two talented young scientists who died tragically while graduate students in Medical Biophysics.

The purpose of this prize is to recognize a Medical Biophysics student whose work and achievements are judged to be both outstanding in their own right and representative of the ideals and culture of the Department. Criteria include: uniqueness and significance of academic work, publication record and contribution to student life and culture of Medical Biophysics  Only students in the final year* of their PhD studies will be considered.

The award, together with a certificate and $2,000 cash prize, is made at the annual Departmental Retreat at Geneva Park.

Nominations for the Walker-Marshall Prize should include a strong letter of support from the supervisor (co-signed by all members of the supervisory committee) and a copy of the student’s curriculum vitae.

*The student should expect to graduate in the same academic year that the prize is awarded.
 

Walker-Marshall Award Recipients