Rankings

The Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy is recognized as one of the top faculties of pharmacy in the world. According to 2020 QS World rankings we are:

#1

in Canada

Top 10

internationally

People

57

staff

38

continuing faculty

18

part-time faculty

85

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 and Learners

Doctor of

Pharmacy

957

enrolled

234

graduated

PharmD for

Pharmacists

160

enrolled

35

graduated

International

Pharmacy

Graduate

Program

98

enrolled

89

graduated

Pharmaceutical

Sciences

MSc, PhD

142

enrolled
50 MSc, 92 PhD

23

graduated

Pharmaceutical

Chemistry

59

enrolled

18

graduated

Undergraduate

Summer

Research

Program

190

applicants

10

students enrolled from Universities across Canada

Office of Experiential Education

919

preceptors

430

rotation sites

2,076

rotation placements
1,586 direct patient care
490 non-direct patient care

406,720

hours of rotations

1,864

APPE rotations
372,800 hours

212

EPE rotations
33,920 hours

Donor Impact

$1,000,000+

given to students in donor support

Alumni

10,400+

alumni

97%

of our donors are alumni

9

alumni events engaging close to 1,400 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

Opinion Editorials

Research By the numbers

Faculty of Pharmacy Research Funding

2020-2021 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

$13,718,462

total research funding awarded to Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy Researchers

  • Tri-Agency $5,927,689 (CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC)
  • Private Sector $1,312,925
  • Non for Profit Sector $3,233,578 (including foundations)
  • Government $3,254,270 (NIH, IDRC, Ontario Genomics, etc.)

90

number of applications submitted

44 successful
45 unsuccessful
1 pending

104

active grants

22 Government
27 Not for profit
9 Private Sector
46 Tri-Agency

46

Tri-Agency grants

24 CIHR
16 NSERC
1 SSHRC
5 Other

3

Canada Research Chairs

Researcher Awards

20

researcher awards

6 salary awards
14 awards (honor and others)

Publications

490

publications

This includes:
6 books and chapters
41 editorial reviews

Conferences & Symposia

155

virtual conferences attended

81 International Conferences
44 National Conferences
30 Local Conferences

Presentations by appointed Faculty members and trainees

72

abstracts

83

presentations

Entrepreneurship

7

start-ups

2 new
(ARMA Biosciences & Liberum Biotechnologies)
5 ongoing
(Antlera Therapeutics, Cellular Analytics, LSK Technologies, Nanology Labs and Nocimetrics)

64

commercialization projects

60 active
4 closed

40

licenses

3 new
36 ongoing
4 exercised /closed

19

patents, licences and invention disclosures

9 patents issues (Hong Kong, Germany, France, UK, Spain, Italy, USA, Canada)
13 applications

10

invention disclosures

Inventions Disclosures including a Student

  • include a student
  • 2 PI only

Assignment

  • 4 co-owned
  • 6 assigned to U of T

Centre for Pharmaceutical Oncology (CPO)

177

members

  • 22 Full Faculty
  • 16 Associate Faculty
  • 16 Research Staff
  • 73 Full Trainees
  • 20 Associate Trainees
  • 30 Other (visiting professors, visiting students, health professionals, etc.)

14

graduate student scholarships given

6

bi-weekly seminar series featuring leading national and international experts from University of Alberta, Universite Lavel, Rutgers, UHN, McGill, and LTRI
 

Centre for Practice Excellence (CPE)

8

speaker series presentations

2

symposia

1

four-day summit

Collaborations

  •  
  • The Hospital for Sick Children
  • Institute for Personalized Therapeutic Nutrition
  • Banting and Best Diabetes Center
  • Whole Health Pharmacy Partners
  • University of Saskatchewan
  • Ontario College of Pharmacists
  • Shoppers Drug Mart
  • University of Waterloo
  • Dalhousie University
  •  
  • Whole Health
  • Janzen's Pharmacy
  • Bio Pro Pharmacy
  • Therappx
  • University of Alberta
  • Women’s College Research Institute 
  • MedMe Health
  • Northwest Telepharmacy Solutions
  • University Health Network 
  • Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
  • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
  • Memorial University
  • University of Canberra
  • Institute for Safe Medication Practices 
  • Center for Effective Practice
  • Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

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

15

research fellows

Research Fellows From

  • Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy

  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
  • Carleton University, School of Public Policy and Administration
  • Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing
  • University of Toronto Faculty of Law
  • University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
  • University of Toronto Rotman School of Management
  • UC San Diego School of Medicine

11

collaborative seminars featuring leading national and international experts

75+

members

150+

trainees across 15 University of Toronto Departments