Strong individual faculty research programs, the diversity of research expertise in the College and faculty collaboration with investigators outside the College are recognized research strengths.
Major contributions provided by post-doctoral fellows and research technicians.
College faculty generate significant resources to maintain a wide array of high quality research programs. Research funding from national granting agencies, disease foundations and industry, and internally through the College’s new Research Endowment Fund and Isabel Irwin Fund.
Faculty in the College are actively engaged in forming collaborative ventures with industrial partners who can provide financial assistance in terms of project development, academic chairs, industrial graduate and post-doctoral stipends and summer student research support.
Unique distinction in Canada of being home to both Pharmacy and Nutrition programs.
Full range of health science programs at the U of S: five other health science colleges - Dentistry, Kinesiology, Medicine (including the School of Physical Therapy), Nursing, and Veterinary Medicine.
Key units located on campus, for example, the University departments of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Applied Microbiology and Food Science, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Pharmacology and Physiology, the Toxicology Research Centre and the Agricultural Biotechnology Research Centre.
Partnerships with professionals and facilities, such as the Saskatoon and Regina District Health hospitals, public health services, Cancer Centres plus other key health care districts and related agencies throughout the province.
Collaborations in research and graduate studies with PharmaDerm and PharmaLytics, a new research institute that College faculty were instrumental in initiating.
U of S home to Innovation Place, one of the most successful research parks in North America, with over 100 organizations in industries such as agriculture, computing and telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, novel foods and environmental sciences.
The Canadian Light Source synchrotron, a national resource for researchers and the largest scientific research project in Canada, will open in 2003 and will provide unprecedented opportunities for scientific discover in fields such as pharmaceuticals and biotechnology.
The resulting dynamic combination of the above programs, professionals and specialized researchers provides a stimulating environment for research at the U of S. For more information on research at the University, please see U of S Research.
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