District Quick Facts

Toronto’s Discovery District is more than just world-class science and discovery. The research park which is fully integrated into Toronto’s downtown core offers a concentrated mix of research, biomedical companies, finance and business support services for the research community, and more.

·         2 square kilometres of concentrated brain power

·         More than 50,000 jobs

·         22,000+ medical care and research-related jobs

·         9 teaching hospitals

·         30+ specialized medical and related sciences research centres

University of Toronto

·         Over 70,000 students

·         Canada’s largest university

·         11th of the rankings of HEEACT that measures the performance of scientific papers for world universities (2009)

·         11th in the world in Life Sciences and Biomedicine ranked by Times Higher Education’s QS World University Rankings (2009)

·         One of the largest Faculties of Medicine in North America

·         More medical faculty and students than Harvard

·         Ranked 4th in North American in terms of medical research spending

York University

·         50,000 students

·         3rd largest university in Canada

·         leading interdisciplinary research and teaching university in Canada

Ryerson University

·         Canada’s leader for innovative career-focused education

·         28,000 undergraduate and graduate students

·         largest primarily undergraduate university in Canada

Biotechnology specialization in:

·         vaccines

·         diagnostics

·         Bio-informatics

·         Bio-pharmaceuticals

·         Biotech instrumentation

·         Genomic, proteomics