Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is the research component of
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (SHSC), commonly known as Sunnybrook Hospital or simply Sunnybrook, is an academic health science centre located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the largest trauma centre in Canada and one of two trauma centr ...
in
Toronto
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,
Ontario
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. It is one of the largest research centres in Canada and is fully affiliated with the
University of Toronto
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. The institute employs over 300 scientists and clinician-scientists and has a total of over 1300 research staff.
Disciplines and Platforms
Each scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) belongs to a platform and a program.
Research Platforms
Biological sciencesEvaluative clinical sciencesPhysical sciences
Research programs
Brain SciencesCancer(Odette Cancer Centre)
Heart(Schulich Heart Centre)
Musculoskeletal(Holland Musculoskeletal Centre)
St. John's Rehab ResearchTrauma, Emergency & Critical CareVeterans & CommunityWomen & Babies
Commercialization
Sunnybrook Research Institute has been issued a total of 64 patents and currently have 29 active licences.
Several spinoff companies have emerged from SRI, including VisualSonics Inc., Sentinelle Medical Inc. and Profound Medical Inc.
References
External links
Sunnybrook Research Institute
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Medical research institutes in Canada
University of Toronto
Companies based in Toronto