Acceleration Consortium (AC)

💰 Funding alert for Associate and Assistant Professors with caregiving responsibilities! Apply now to access resources that help maintain research group productivity during parental leave. Program details: acceleration.utoronto.ca/programs/careg…

With a self-driving lab, a @UofTEngineering team, led by Yu Zou in collaboration with Jason Hattrick-Simpers, a member of the AC's Scientific Leadership Team, have discovered a new set of metal alloys that retain their strength under extreme conditions. lnkd.in/ge7VSzV4

AC Director Alán Aspuru-Guzik & his lab is featured in a new @cenmag story on the rise of self-driving labs. He discusses his lab’s development of Organa, an AI and robotic lab assistant, and El Agente, a safety agent. 🤖Full story here: cen.acs.org/physical-chemi…

For @UTM chemist @OgataAlana, a newborn baby meant a change in priorities & time away from her lab. But an innovative grant from the AC, the Caregiver Grant, helped her strike the right balance between her research career & new motherhood. Learn how here: acceleration.utoronto.ca/news/ac-caregi…

Two new grants totalling $650K, awarded by the Acceleration Consortium, in partnership with the Institut Courtois @UMontreal & @IVADO_Qc, will advance self-driving labs -- supporting research on organic lasers & peptoids, lab-made “cousins” of peptides 🧪 uoft.me/cw8

Meet AC staff scientist Owen Melville from the Self-Driving Lab for Polymers. He’s helped develop Lash-E, a robotic platform to drive research on machine learning benchmarking, polymer degradation & more. More about Owen, his work & his green thumb here: acceleration.utoronto.ca/news/meet-our-…

We were thrilled to bring our annual Accelerate Conference to Singapore in June, held jointly with I-FIM @NUSingapore as the AI4X-Accelerate Conference. With nearly 800 attendees from 30+ countries, it was our largest conference to date. Thank you to all who joined us!

With support from an AC Initiate Grant, a @UofTEngineering student has launched two initiatives, the Maple Draft & PathwayR, designed to help reduce the country’s brain drain and encourage young STEM talent to build careers & connections here in Canada. 🇨🇦 uoft.me/cvG

Big news for materials discovery! 🚀 Announced this month by the AC @UofT & I-FIM @NUSingapore, a new self-driving lab will create the world’s largest open materials dataset, helping solve a shortage of high-quality data for AI-driven discovery. More here: uoft.me/cvr

Through hands-on experiments, @UofT PhD students are introducing girls & gender diverse youth to polymer science and automation. Funded by an AC Initiate Grant, ChemPALS is helping inspire a more diverse next generation of scientists. Full story here: uoft.me/chempals

How will AI & chemistry intersect in 2050? And what does the future of scientific discovery look like in the age of AI? Read a new essay by AC Director & @UofT Prof. Alán Aspuru-Guzik, published by @americanacad amacad.org/publication/da…

The AC is proud to be part of @UofT's long-standing expertise in artificial intelligence, and we welcome the Government of Canada’s new national AI strategy. We look forward to continuing our work with our partners to advance shared priorities & scale AI adoption responsibly.

Announced today, the AC @UofT & @thesgconline have partnered to tackle a persistent challenge in early drug discovery: developing bioactive molecules with drug-like properties, becoming "a force multiplier for 🇨🇦-led innovation in pharmaceutical sciences." acceleration.utoronto.ca/news/global-re…

Accelerated discovery is strengthening Ontario's leadership in research & innovation. And yesterday, the AC welcomed a Council of Ontario Universities delegation on a tour of our self-driving labs at @UofT. Thank you to @SteveOrsini & the entire @OntUniv team for their visit!

At AI4X-Accelerate Conference in Singapore (June 15–19), experts from @nvidia, @Merck, @GoogleDeepMind, @cusp_ai + more leading organizations will share breakthroughs, challenges, and opportunities shaping the future of AI. Register now to us: ai4x.cc

Congratulations to AC Director & @UofT Prof. Alán Aspuru-Guzik, who is featured in @BetaKit Most Ambitious 2026, an annual list recognizing Canada’s most ambitious researchers, companies and community-builders! mostambitious.betakit.com #TorontoTechWeek

I am most excited to announce that I have been recognized with Stem Cell Network Talent Builder Award- for training the next generation of Canada's regen med talent! This is so special- thanks so much SCN! stemcellnetwork.ca/news/stem-cell…

AI4X-Accelerate is next month! Join us in Singapore to hear from a global lineup of leading researchers and industry experts working at the intersection of AI, scientific discovery and materials science. Register to hear from these names + more speakers: ai4x.cc

📅May 27, 10–11 AM: AC seminar led by Cara Brocklehurst of @Novartis 🔬💊🧪 Learn about the future of drug discovery at @Novartis through MicroCycle, an integrated platform accelerating medicinal chemistry. Register to attend at @UofT or online: airtable.com/appYBjHgttvBuz…

Canada is a leader in AI for science & Toronto has a big pool of inventors. But what’s the path for founders? Join the AC & @WittingtonVC on May 28 for a panel on what it takes to spin out next-gen companies from Canadian innovation. RSVP: luma.com/00o343o6 #TorontoTechWeek