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 ====== University of Toronto ====== ====== University of Toronto ======
  
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 The **University of Toronto** is a Canadian research university based in [[canada:ontario:Toronto]], [[canada:Ontario]].  The **University of Toronto** is a Canadian research university based in [[canada:ontario:Toronto]], [[canada:Ontario]]. 
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 It hosts a number of institutes and colleges, including the [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]] and [[Massey College]]. It hosts a number of institutes and colleges, including the [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]] and [[Massey College]].
  
-===== Academia =====+===== History ===== 
 + 
 +==== COVID-19 ==== 
 + 
 +U of T received a $49,418 CAD grant in July 2021 from the [[Government of Canada]] for a project titled "Training peers in motivational interviewing to increase vaccine confidence among healthcare workers in a large, urban healthcare institution."((//Encouraging vaccine confidence in Canada - Competition Results.// (2021, July 26). Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Retrieved November 3, 2021, from https://archive.ph/Zo5b5)) It was awarded through a grant program called //"Encouraging Vaccine Confidence in Canada"// jointly administered by the [[Canadian Institutes of Health Research]] (CIHR), [[Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council]] (NSERC) and the [[Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council]] (SSHRC).((//Encouraging vaccine confidence in Canada.// (2021, July 26). Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Retrieved November 3, 2021, from https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Promoter-Promotion/VaccineConfidence_eng.asp)) 
 + 
 +On April 7, 2022, U of T and [[pharmaceutical_companies:Moderna]] announced a new partnership to "develop new tools to prevent and treat [[infectious diseases]]," including in the realms of "molecular [[genetics]], biomedical engineering, [[biochemistry]] and beyond."((Kalvapalle, R. (2022, April 7). //U of T partners with Moderna to advance research in RNA science and technology.// University of Toronto News. https://archive.ph/BCZIq)) 
 + 
 +===== Organization =====
  
 ==== Dalla Lana School of Public Health ==== ==== Dalla Lana School of Public Health ====
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   * [[University of Toronto Alumni Association]] (UTAA)   * [[University of Toronto Alumni Association]] (UTAA)
  
-Other notable donors are the following:+Other notable donors are the following:((//Presidents’ Circle Member Listing.// (2022, May 1). University of Toronto. https://archive.ph/xuXo9)) ((//Donor Listing.// University of Toronto Boundless Campaign. Retrieved May 16, 2022, from https://archive.ph/y9flp)) 
 + 
 +<WRAP column col4> 
 + 
 +== Academic == 
 + 
 +  * [[Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada]] 
 +  * [[Centre for Addiction and Mental Health]] (CAMH) 
 +  * [[Disney Research]] 
 +  * [[Durham University]] 
 +  * [[International Life Sciences Institute]] 
 +  * [[Massey College]] 
 +  * [[McGill University]] 
 +  * [[Sunnybrook Research Institute]] 
 +  * [[University of Manitoba]] 
 +  * [[University of Toronto Medical Alumni Association]] 
 +  * [[Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence]] 
 + 
 +== Auto and Aviation == 
 + 
 +  * [[Air Canada]] 
 +  * [[Ford]] 
 +  * [[General Motors]] 
 +  * [[Honda]] 
 + 
 +== Big Oil and Energy == 
 + 
 +  * [[BP Energy]] 
 +  * [[Chevron]] 
 +  * [[Husky Energy]] 
 +  * [[Petro-Canada]] 
 +  * [[Suncor Energy]] 
 +  * [[TC Energy]] 
 + 
 +== Consumer Goods and Services == 
 + 
 +  * [[Amazon]] 
 +  * [[Costco]] 
 +  * [[Loblaw Companies]] 
 +  * [[Pharmasave]] 
 +  * [[Procter & Gamble]] 
 +  * [[SC Johnson]] 
 +  * [[Shoppers Drug Mart]] 
 +  * [[Walmart]] 
 + 
 +== Financial Services and Investments == 
 + 
 +  * [[Barclays]] 
 +  * [[BCE]] 
 +  * [[BNY Mellon]] 
 +  * [[Brookfield Partners Foundation]] 
 +  * [[CIBC]] 
 +  * [[Citi]] 
 +  * [[Deloitte]] 
 +  * [[Global Risk Institute]] 
 +  * [[Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan]] 
 +  * [[Hollinger]] 
 +  * [[Hong Kong Bank Foundation]] 
 +  * [[HSBC]] 
 +  * [[Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada]] (IIROC) 
 +  * [[KPMG]] 
 +  * [[Manulife]] 
 +  * [[Mastercard]] 
 +  * [[Merrill Lynch]] 
 +  * [[National Bank of Canada]] 
 +  * [[NorthWest Healthcare Properties]] 
 +  * [[Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan]] 
 +  * [[PricewaterhouseCoopers]] 
 +  * [[Scotiabank]] 
 +  * [[Sun Life Financial]] 
 +  * [[TD Bank Group]] 
 +  * [[TMX Group]] 
 +  * [[Vanguard]] 
 +  * [[Western Union]] 
 + 
 +== Food Services == 
 + 
 +  * [[Cargill]] 
 +  * [[Coca Cola]] 
 +  * [[General Mills]] 
 +  * [[Heinz]] 
 +  * [[Kellogg]] 
 +  * [[Kraft]] 
 +  * [[Mead Johnson]] 
 +  * [[Nestle]] 
 +  * [[PepsiCo]] 
 +  * [[Sysco]] 
 + 
 +== Government Agencies == 
 + 
 +  * [[BDC Capital]] 
 +  * [[Cancer Care Ontario]] 
 +  * [[City of Toronto]] 
 +  * [[Government of Canada]] 
 +  * [[National Institute of Nutrition]] 
 +  * [[Taiwan Ministry of Education]] 
 + 
 +== Health Care Facilities == 
 + 
 +  * [[Baycrest Health Sciences]] 
 +  * [[Mount Sinai Hospital]] 
 +  * [[Saint Elizabeth Health Care]] 
 +  * [[SickKids]] 
 +  * [[St. Michael's Hospital]] 
 +  * [[Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care]] 
 + 
 +== Infrastructure == 
 + 
 +  * [[Aecon]] 
 +  * [[Canadian National Railway]] (a [[Bill Gates]] company) 
 + 
 +== Non-Profits == 
 + 
 +  * [[Aga Khan Foundation]] 
 +  * [[Aga Khan Trust for Culture]] 
 +  * [[ALS Society of Canada]] 
 +  * [[American Endowment Foundation]] 
 +  * [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]] 
 +  * [[Burroughs Wellcome Fund]] 
 +  * [[Canadian Cancer Society]] 
 +  * [[Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research]] (CANFAR) 
 +  * [[Canadian Medical Association Foundation]] 
 +  * [[Canadian Urological Association]] 
 +  * [[Colorectal Cancer Canada]] 
 +  * [[CURE International]] 
 +  * [[Cystic Fibrosis Canada]] 
 +  * [[Elton John AIDS Foundation]] 
 +  * [[Foundation to Promote Open Society]] 
 +  * [[Health Research Foundation]] 
 +  * [[Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada]] 
 +  * [[March of Dimes]] 
 +  * [[Nanjing New City Charity Foundation]] 
 +  * [[OMeGA Medical Grants Association]] 
 +  * [[Ontario HIV Treatment Network]] 
 +  * [[Ontario Pharmacists Association]] 
 +  * [[Open Society Institute Soros Foundation]] 
 +  * [[Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation]] 
 +  * [[PSI Foundation]] 
 +  * [[Rx&D Health Research Foundation]] 
 +  * [[Schwab Charitable Fund]] 
 +  * [[Seattle Foundation]] 
 +  * [[Silicon Valley Community Foundation]] 
 +  * [[Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation]] 
 +  * [[Temerty Foundation]] 
 +  * [[West Park Hospital Foundation]] 
 +  * [[Women's College Hospital Foundation]] 
 +  * [[World Congress on Thyroid Cancer]]
  
 == Pharmaceutical Companies == == Pharmaceutical Companies ==
  
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Abbott]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:AbbVie]]
 +  * [[adMare BioInnovations]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Alexion]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Alion Pharmaceuticals]]
   * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Allergan]]   * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Allergan]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Amgen]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:ApoPharma]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Apotex]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Aspen Pharmacare]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Astellas]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:AstraZeneca]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Bausch Health]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Baxter]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Bayer]]
 +  * [[medical_technology_companies:Baylis Medical Technologies]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Biogen]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:BioLegend]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Biovail]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Bioventus]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Boehringer Ingelheim]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Bristol-Myers Squibb]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Celgene]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Covidien]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:CSL]]
 +  * [[medical_technology_companies:Depuy Synthes]]
 +  * [[Dow Chemical Company]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Eisai]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Eli Lilly]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:EMD Serono]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Generex Biotechnology]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Genpharm]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Gilead Sciences]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:GlaxoSmithKline]]
 +  * [[medical_technology_companies:HANSAmed]]
 +  * [[medical_technology_companies:Hologic]]
 +  * [[Iovate Health Sciences]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Ispen Biopharmaceuticals]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Janssen]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Johnson & Johnson]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Knight Therapeutics]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Leo Pharma]]
 +  * [[LifeLabs]]
 +  * [[medical_technology_companies:Medtronic]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Merck
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Monsanto]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Novartis]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Novo Nordisk]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Ortho Biotech]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Otsuka]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Paladin Labs]]
 +  * [[Patheon]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Pfizer]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Psyched Therapeutics]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Roche]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Sanofi]]
 +  * [[medical_technology_companies:Stryker]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Synthes]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Takeda]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Teva]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:UCB]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Verity Pharmaceuticals]]
 +  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Wyeth]]
 +  * [[medical_technology_companies:Zimmer Biomet]]
  
-==== Pharmaceutical Companies ====+== Regulatory Bodies ==
  
-=== Moderna ===+  * [[Ontario College of Pharmacists]]
  
-On April 7, 2022, U of T and [[pharmaceutical_companies:Moderna]] announced a new partnership to "develop new tools to prevent and treat [[infectious diseases]]," including in the realms of "molecular [[genetics]], biomedical engineering, [[biochemistry]] and beyond."((Kalvapalle, R. (2022, April 7). //U of T partners with Moderna to advance research in RNA science and technology.// University of Toronto News. https://archive.ph/BCZIq))+== Telecommunications, Big Tech and Media == 
 + 
 +  * [[Accenture]] 
 +  * [[Adobe Systems]] 
 +  * [[Amazon Web Services]] (AWS) 
 +  * [[Apple]] 
 +  * [[AT&T]] 
 +  * [[BCE]] 
 +  * [[BlackBerry]] 
 +  * [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] (CBC) 
 +  * [[Cisco]] 
 +  * [[Cognizant]] 
 +  * [[Comcast]] 
 +  * [[Facebook]] 
 +  * [[Fujitsu Laboratories]] 
 +  * [[General Electric]] 
 +  * [[Globe and Mail]] 
 +  * [[Google]] 
 +  * [[Huawai Technologies]] 
 +  * [[IBM]] 
 +  * [[Intel]] 
 +  * [[Meta]] 
 +  * [[Microsoft]] 
 +  * [[Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories]] 
 +  * [[Motorola]] 
 +  * [[National Post]] 
 +  * [[Nokia]] 
 +  * [[NOVADAQ]] 
 +  * [[NVIDIA]] 
 +  * [[Postmedia Network]] 
 +  * [[Qualcomm]] 
 +  * [[Reuters]] 
 +  * [[Rogers Communications]] 
 +  * [[Rogers Wireless]] 
 +  * [[Samsung]] 
 +  * [[Siemens]] 
 +  * [[Snell Medical Communication]] 
 +  * [[Stryker]] 
 +  * [[Thomson Reuters]] 
 +  * [[Toronto Star]] 
 +  * [[Uber]] 
 +  * [[Veritas]] 
 +  * [[Walt Disney Company Foundation]] 
 +  * [[Xanadu]] 
 +  * [[Xeros]] 
 +  * [[Xiaoju Science and Technology (Hong Kong)]] 
 +  * [[Xilinx]] 
 + 
 +</WRAP>
  
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   * https://thevarsity.ca/2021/05/07/op-ed-university-of-toronto-should-end-partnerships-with-for-profit-pharmaceutical-companies/   * https://thevarsity.ca/2021/05/07/op-ed-university-of-toronto-should-end-partnerships-with-for-profit-pharmaceutical-companies/
   * https://www.staywell.charity/   * https://www.staywell.charity/
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