Ryerson University
Ryerson University is the largest primarily undergraduate university in Canada, with 700 full time faculty members, 21,000 undergraduate and 700 graduate students. Offering more than 80 degree programs, which include 18 graduate degrees, Ryerson's growing research activities have a strong applied focus.
Areas of Research
Research programs at Ryerson extend to a broad range of disciplines and span the Faculties of Arts, Business, Communication and Design, Community Service and Engineering, Architecture and Applied Science. Health and Well Being and the Environment are two areas of particular focus in Ryerson's Strategic Plan and reflect interdisciplinary and applied research.
Ryerson has established research in several areas relevant to BioDiscovery Toronto, including:
- Two Canada Research Chairs have been established in bio-related fields
- CRC Biomedical Applications of Ultrasound
- CRC Environmental Interfaces and Biofilms
Other established research programs include:
- Biology: Fundamental Biology, Genetics, Limnology, Microbiology
- Biochemistry
- Biotechnology and Bioremediation
- Chemistry: Synthetic Organic, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry
- Computational Biomechanics, physiological study of gravity environment, trauma
- Eco- and environmental toxicology and air quality
- Medical Physics: diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound applications; imaging; and radiation therapy, monitoring, optimization
- Molecular Biology and Transcription
- Nutrition and Food Technologies
- Occupational Health, Public Health and Human Factors
- Proteins: Biochemical and Biophysical properties and the implication for disease
- Water and Wastewater Treatment
Research Centres
Centre for Studies in Food Security
Centre for Learning Technologies - research and development in accessibility
Centre for the Study of Commercial Activity
The Network-Centric Applied Research Team (NCART)
Facilities
Heat Transfer Research Lab - basic and applied research on a variety of problems involving heat transfer, thermodynamics and fluid flow.
Robotics & Manufacturing Automation Lab - An interdisciplinary laboratory for advancing robotics and manufacturing automation. Brings together Mechanical, Aerospace, Industrial, Biomedical, Electrical-Computer Engineering, Mechatronics, MEMS, and Computer Science.
The Ryerson University Analytical Centre - is a state-of-the-art suite of scientific instruments offering a wide range of capabilities for (bio)chemical analyses. These include HPLC, GC, GC/MS, GC/Headspace, FTIR, UV-VIS, Luminescence Spectroscopy, and Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy, powder x-ray diffraction and Clean Room (analytical trace element) Facilities.
Advanced Microscopy Facility - includes a two-photon confocal laser scanning microscope, a Raman confocal microscope, and an atomic force microscope, Scanning Electon Microscopy with energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy and coating facility, an inverted laser-confocal microscope suitable for live-cell imaging and an epiflurescence microscope.
Contact
The Office of Research Services
Industry Liaison/Technology Transfer
400 EPH, 350 Victoria Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5B 2K3
vox 416.979.5042
fax 416.979.5336
Robert Dirstein
Director, Office of Research Services
dirstein@ryerson.ca
416-979-5000 ext 7609
Heather Gallant
Industry Liaison Manager
hgallant@ryerson.ca
416-979-5000 ext 7521
Theresa Erskine
Business Development
erskine@ryerson.ca
416-979-5000 ext 6521