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University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a Canadian research university based in Toronto, Ontario.
It hosts a number of institutes and colleges, including the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Massey College.
Academia
Dalla Lana School of Public Health
The Dalla Lana School of Public Health was founded in 1927 from a large donation from the Rockefeller Foundation, originally named the University of Toronto School of Hygiene.1) 2)
Affiliations
Funding
Chancellor's Circle of Benefactors
The school recognizes its most significant donors through the Chancellor's Circle of Benefactors, which “includes the most visionary and generous members of our community, stretching all the way back to 1850.”3)
Featured individual donors include:
Featured corporate donors include:
Other notable donors are the following:
Academic
Financial Services
Consumer Goods and Services
Non-Profits
Pharmaceutical Companies
Regulatory Bodies
Telecommunications and Big Tech
Pharmaceutical Companies
Moderna
On April 7, 2022, U of T and 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.”4)
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1)
Burrows, M. (2019, May 16). Canada’s Greatest Impact Donation. All about Estates. https://www.allaboutestates.ca/canadas-greatest-impact-donation/
2)
Bodnar, N. (2014, May 2). Origin story: how the Dalla Lana School of Public Health began. University of Toronto News. https://archive.ph/dv8Qt
3)
Chancellors’ Circle of Benefactors. University of Toronto. Retrieved January 22, 2022, from https://archive.ph/7vYUl
4)
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