Rankings

The Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy is recognized as one of the top faculties of pharmacy in the world. According to 2021 QS World rankings we are:

#1

in Canada

Top 10

internationally

People

61

staff

39

continuing faculty

6

Assistant Professors, Teaching Stream

104

community-based and affiliated faculty

Space

167,000

square feet of teaching and research space in one building

5 floors

of combined wet and dry laboratories

Student & Learners

Doctor of

Pharmacy

942

enrolled

235

graduated

PharmD for

Pharmacists

144

enrolled

50

graduated

International

Pharmacy

Graduate

Program

182

enrolled

167

graduated

Pharmaceutical

Sciences

MSc, PhD

148

enrolled
49 MSc, 95 PhD, 4 MScPhm

23

graduated

Pharmaceutical

Chemistry

62

enrolled

14

graduated

Undergraduate

Summer

Research

Program

230

applicants

23

students enrolled from Universities across Canada

Office of Experiential Education

1083

preceptors

467

rotation sites

2,585

rotation placements
2,155 direct patient care
430 non-direct patient care

487,720

hours of rotations

1,864

APPE rotations
370,600 hours

732

EPE rotations
117,120 hours

Donor Support

$1,000,000+

given to students in donor support

Alumni

10,500+

alumni

97%

of our donors are alumni

10

alumni events engaging close to 1,800 alumni

Media

More than

1,300

media interviews from March - May 2021

Our experts were featured in top national and international outlets, including:

  • National Geographic
  • National Public Radio (NPR)
  • The Globe and Mail
  • CBC Radio One
  • The Toronto Star

Research By The Numbers

Faculty of Pharmacy Research Funding

2021-2022 Faculty of Pharmacy Research Funding Distribution

2020-2021 Tri-Agency Funding

Faculty of Pharmacy Number of Active Awards

Faculty of Pharmacy Average Award Budget

Research Funding

$13,451,623

total research funding awarded to Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy Researchers

  • Tri-Agency $7,015,969 (CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC)
  • Private Sector $2,657,253
  • Non for Profit Sector $1,444,832 (including foundations)
  • Government $2,333,569 (NIH, IDRC, Ontario Genomics, etc.)

80

number of applications submitted

23 successful
32 unsuccessful
25 pending

103

active grants

18 Government
26 Not for profit
10 Private Sector
49 Tri-Agency

49

Tri-Agency grants

26 CIHR
15 NSERC
2 SSHRC
6 Other

3

Canada Research Chairs

Researcher Awards

16

researcher awards

5 salary awards
11 awards (honor and others)

Publications

567

publications

This includes:
5 books and chapters
11 editorial reviews

Conferences & Symposia

567

virtual conferences attended

97 International Conferences
60 National Conferences
33 Local Conferences

Presentations by appointed Faculty members and trainees

108

abstracts

82

presentations

Entrepreneurship

6

start-ups

6 ongoing
Antlera Therapeutics, Cellular Analytics, Nanology Labs. Nocimetrics. ARMA Biosciences & Liberum Biotechnologies

19

commercialization projects

14 active
5 closed

13

licenses

2 new
7 ongoing
4 exercised /closed

7

patents, licences and invention disclosures

2 patents issues
5 applications

5

invention disclosures

Inventions Disclosures including a Student

  • 3 include a student
  • 2 PI only

Assignment

  • 2 co-owned
  • 2 assigned to U of T
  • 1 assigned to inventor

Centre for Pharmaceutical Oncology (CPO)

205

members

  • 20 Full Faculty
  • 16 Associate Faculty
  • 31 Research Staff
  • 85 Full Trainees
  • 21 Associate Trainees
  • 32 Other (visiting professors, visiting students, health professionals, etc.)

10

graduate student scholarships given

6

bi-weekly seminar series featuring leading national and international experts from Sherbrooke Medical Centre, University of Victoria, University of British Columbia, University Medical Center Groningen, and Université de Sherbrooke.

Centre for Practice Excellence (CPE)

8

speaker series presentations

2

symposia

1

four-day summit

Collaborations

  • The Hospital for Sick Children 

  • Whole Health Pharmacy Partners 

  • Mount Sinai Hospital 

  • THETA Collaborative 

  • McMaster University 

  • McKesson Canada 

  • Public Health Agency of Canada 

  • Toronto General Hospital 

  • Ontario College of Pharmacists 

  • University of Waterloo 

  • 19toZero 

  • The Wilson Centre 

  • Trillium Health Partners 

  • Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto 

  • Neighbourhood Pharmacy Association of Canada  

  • Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation 

  • Centre for Sustainable Health Systems 

  • Royal Pharmaceutical Society 

  • Dalhousie University 

  • University of Nottingham 

  • The International Pharmaceutical Federation 

  • Cardiff University 

  • HealthPRO 

  • St. Michaels Hospital  

  • Université catholique de Louvain (Brussels) 

  • Women’s College Research Institute  

  • GlaxoSmith Kline (UK)  

  • Discovery Pharmacy 

  • Toronto Metropolitan University 

  • OPEN Citizens’ Council 

  • CUBIC Health 

  • University of Alberta 

  • CarePoint Health 

  • ICES  

  • St. John's University 

  • New Brunswick College of Pharmacists  

  • Institute of Safe Medication Practices  

  • Ontario College of Pharmacists  

  • University Health Network  

  • Centre for Addiction and Mental Health 

  • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre 

  • University of British Columbia 

WHO Collaborating Centre for Governance, Accountability and Transparency in the Pharmaceutical Sector (WHOCC)

17

research fellows

Research Fellows From

  • Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto 

  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto 

  • School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University 

  • Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto 

  • School of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney 

  • Faculty of Law, University of Toronto 

  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto 

  • Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto 

  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto 

  • Global Health Policy Institute 

  • School of Medicine, UC San Diego 

  • Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, Brock University 

  • Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam 

  • Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute 

  • University of San Francisco 

7

collaborative seminars featuring leading national and international experts

Precision Medicine Initiative at University of Toronto (PRiME)

90

members

150+

trainees across 15 University of Toronto Departments

Discovery Pharmacy

2,898

new patients

546

vials of flu vaccine administered

1,327

vials of COVID-19 vaccine administered

16

APPE students completed in-pharmacy rotations