$23M funding for Robarts Research Institute

London, ON – Ontario’s provincial government is providing $23 million funding to support the integration of the Robarts Research Institute with the University of Western Ontario.

The funding will support the integration of Robarts with the university and help fund state-of-the-art medical research equipment.

“We’re securing the future of the Robarts Research Institute so that its world-renowned medical imaging and biomedical research can continue to expand,” says Chris Bentley, minister of training, colleges and universities. “By investing in new equipment and making Robarts’ new partnership with the University of Western Ontario possible, we are enhancing the leading-edge research being conducted at both institutions.”

“Robarts scientists are among the best in the world,” says Dr Cecil Rorabeck, interim scientific director of Robarts. “This generous provincial funding allows Robarts and Western scientists to come together to promote new discoveries that will, without a doubt, change lives everywhere.”