Acceleration Consortium
@accelerationc
We're a global community accelerating the discovery and design of wide range of new materials, from renewable energy to drugs. Led by Alán Aspuru-Guzik at the University of Toronto.
💰Funding alert: Help build a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive STEM community at #UofT and beyond through the AC's Equity, diversity and inclusion initiate grants. Learn more and apply by September 18, 2026: acceleration.utoronto.ca/programs/ac-...
With funding from the Acceleration Consortium, a @engineering.utoronto.ca researcher is building a self-driving lab with the aim to develop non-toxic, environmentally friendly coatings for smartphone screens. Learn more: acceleration.utoronto.ca/news/the-hid... 🤳
💰 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/car...
With a self-driving lab, a @engineering.utoronto.ca team led by Yu Zou in collaboration with Jason Hattrick-Simpers, a member of the AC's Scientific Leadership Team, have discovered a new metal alloys that retain their strength under extreme conditions. acceleration.utoronto.ca/news/self-dr...
For @utm.utoronto.ca chemist Alana Ogata, 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. acceleration.utoronto.ca/news/ac-care...
Two new grants, totalling $650K, from the Acceleration Consortium @utoronto.ca, in partnership with the Institut Courtois @umontreal.ca & @ivado.bsky.social, will advance self-driving labs - supporting research on organic lasers & peptoids, lab-made “cousins” of peptides 🧪 uoft.me/cw8
To help fix a “leaky pipeline” in STEM, @chemuoft.bsky.social Prof. Helen Tran organizes the PoWER conference to support women & gender minorities. Funded with an AC Initiate Grant, the annual event is helping make STEM fields more inclusive. Full story here: acceleration.utoronto.ca/news/how-a-u...
Meet AC staff scientist Owen Melville, who works in the Self-Driving Lab for Polymers. He’s helped develop Lash-E, a robotic platform with wide-ranging research applications. Outside the lab, you’ll find him gardening. More about Owen & his work here: acceleration.utoronto.ca/news/meet-ou...
We were thrilled to bring our annual Accelerate Conference to Singapore in June, held jointly with the Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials as the AI4X-Accelerate Conference. With nearly 800 attendees from 30+ countries, it was our largest conference to date. Thanks to all who joined us!
With support from an AC Initiate Grant, a @utoronto.ca engineering student has launched two initiatives, the Maple Draft & PathwayR, designed to help reduce the country’s brain drain & encourage young STEM talent to build careers & connections in Canada. 🇨🇦 acceleration.utoronto.ca/news/enginee...
Announced this month by the AC @utoronto.ca & I-FIM at the National University of Singapore, 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: acceleration.utoronto.ca/news/u-of-t-...
Through hands-on experiments, @utoronto.ca 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 hold for science in the age of AI? AC Director @aspuru.bsky.social explores the history of chemistry & materials science to imagine the future & a possible new era of materials by design. Read the essay: amacad.org/publication/...
Announced today, the AC & the Structural Genomics Consortium have partnered to tackle an ongoing challenge in biomedicine: developing bioactive molecules with drug-like properties, becoming "a force multiplier for 🇨🇦-led innovation in pharmaceutical sciences." acceleration.utoronto.ca/news/global-...
At AI4X-Accelerate Conference (June 15–19, Singapore), industry leaders from top organizations will come together to explore the latest breakthroughs, challenges, and opportunities shaping the future of AI. Register here: ai4x.cc
Congratulations to AC Director & @utoronto.ca Prof. Alán Aspuru-Guzik, who is featured in @betakit.com it Most Ambitious 2026, an annual list recognizing Canada’s most ambitious researchers, companies and community-builders! mostambitious.betakit.com #TorontoTechWeek
AI4X-Accelerate Conference 2026 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 now to hear from these names + more global speakers: ai4x.cc
Join us next Wed May 27 from 10–11 AM for an 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 U of T or online: airtable.com/appYBjHgttvB...
Join us in Singapore June 15-19, 2026 for AI4X-Accelerate Conference! This ambitious program will bring together hundreds of leaders in academia, industry and government to share insights into the future of AI and advanced materials discovery. Register now: www.gevme.com/AI4X-Acceler...
Join us Wed, May 6, 3:00–4:00 PM for a Director’s edition of the AC seminar series, ft. Steven Cranford of Matter. Learn about trends, opportunities and the role of data and interdisciplinary collaboration in shaping future discoveries. Register: airtable.com/appYBjHgttvB...
Congrats to the recipients of our first AC Craft seed grants! Funded projects will explore integrated digital microfluidics platform for autonomous low-volume cell assays and advance SDLs for organ-on-a-chip with multiplexed molecular biosensing. Read more: acceleration.utoronto.ca/news/the-acc...
🚨AI4X—Accelerate conference early-bird registration ends April 15! Join us in #Singapore this June for 5 days of talks, tutorials, and posters on how AI is transforming science—from materials science and SDLs to healthcare and beyond. Get tickets: ai4x.cc/2026/ticket/
Burgeoning student scientists got to try their hand at AI-guided experimentation at this year’s Toronto Science Fair, hosted @utsc.utoronto.ca The Acceleration Consortium team demonstrated how self-driving labs use AI, automation & data analysis to plan & run experiments more efficiently. 🚀
#JOB OPP: We're hiring Staff Scientists across a range of levels to support our AI and Automation self-driving lab at the AC🚀 Staff Scientist ⮕ jobs.utoronto.ca/job-invite/4... Staff Research Scientist ⮕ jobs.utoronto.ca/job-invite/4... Senior Staff Scientist ⮕ jobs.utoronto.ca/job-invite/4...
We’re excited to welcome the NVIDIA team to campus today for a special seminar led by NVIDIA’s Director of Digital Biology Anthony Costa—join us today, March 30 at 4:30 PM EST! Register now to attend in person at @utoronto.ca: airtable.com/appYBjHgttvB...
#UofT donors got glimpse the future of science at a showcase highlighting Arts & Science students and faculty. AC postdoc Miro Bogdanovic and @thematterlab.bsky.social student @allanzhao.bsky.social showcased AI-powered robotic labs, demonstrating how self driving labs are transforming discovery!
Self-driving labs are democratizing science🚀 In a workshop run by @utoronto.ca & Clubes de Ciencia México supported by the AC, 25 students in Xalapa, Mexico remotely ran experiments on a robot in Toronto to learn about AI & robotics in real time. Read more: acceleration.utoronto.ca/news/the-acc...
From aging to fetal health and clean energy to pharmaceuticals, the Acceleration Consortium awards over $2 million to projects that accelerate scientific discovery in a wide range of fields. Read more: acceleration.utoronto.ca/news/from-ag...
#ICYMI: Feb 20 is the deadline to apply to our social sciences and humanities grant! This annual grant aims to bridge the gap between social science and humanities scholars and AI and automation researchers to promote interdisciplinary findings. Apply: acceleration.utoronto.ca/programs/ac-...