Acceleration Consortium

With the Accelerate Conference less than 1-week away, we want to extend a big thank you to both our exhibitors and sponsors this year including @marsdd.bsky.social, @brukercorporation.bsky.social + many more! We are thrilled to have your support.

#JOB OPPORTUNITY: We’re hiring 2 lab technicians to play a pivotal role in supporting research projects at the AC’s self-driving lab for medicinal chemistry, where you will collaborate closely with our interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers.

Apply: acceleration.utoronto.ca/job-board

🚨 We're 2-weeks away from the 2025 Accelerate conference in Toronto, August 11–14, and we are officially SOLD OUT! We are doing our best to add some more tickets, so please be sure to register and join the WAITLIST for a chance to still attend: 2025.accelerateconf.ca/registration

Digital Discovery is proud to support this year's @accelerationc.bsky.social Accelerate Conference, taking place August 11-14 in Toronto, Canada. The journal will be sponsoring prizes for the best posters! Online registration closes on 10 August. Find out more below. 2025.accelerateconf.ca/

YouTube video by Acceleration Consortium Women in STEM: Meet Nandita Vijaykumar | Computer Science Assistant Prof at University of Toronto

We’re highlighting #WomenInSTEM! Meet Nandita Vijaykumar assistant professor at @uoftcompsci.bsky.social 💻

Video by @bme-uoft.bsky.social students Meghan Rothenbroker and Ana-Maria Oproescu, with support from Helen Tran + the AC’s EDI Grant.

🎥 youtu.be/YANxPO3xUn4

🚀 Applications are OPEN for the Acceleration Consortium’s Caregiver grants!

#UofT 🇨🇦 associate/assistant profs with caregiving duties can apply for up to $90K to support the productivity of their research group while on long-term leave.

Apply by July 30: acceleration.utoronto.ca/programs/car...

Congrats to AC director Alán Aspuru-Guzik @aspuru.bsky.social on receiving the Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award for Computational Sciences from Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany! Learn more ➡️ www.emdgroup.com/en/news/hem-...

📅July 8, 2:00 PM: Join us for a talk with Dr. Yi Dong on ProRL: Prolonged Reinforcement Learning Expands Reasoning Boundaries in LLMs.

This event is open to @vectorinstitute.ai + @uoft.bsky.social students and faculty!

Register to attend in person or online: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We're extending our early-bird registration to Thursday, July 10! Don’t miss your chance to attend our fourth annual Accelerate Conference in Toronto, August 11–14, 2025. Register now: 2025.accelerateconf.ca/registration

Introducing Nasim, an AC staff scientist working at the intersection of SDLs, robotics + AI.

Video by @bme-uoft.bsky.social students Meghan Rothenbroker and Ana-Maria Oproescu, with support from Helen Tran + the AC’s EDI Grant.

🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbLc...

There's just a few days left to grab your early-bird tickets for Accelerate! Join us Aug 11–14 in Toronto at @MaRSDD + #UofT for talks, workshops + posters plus a social at @Eataly Yorkville to network over great food+ drink. Register now + save: 2025.accelerateconf.ca/registration

Our friends in Pharmacology + Toxicology at the @uoftmedicine.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social are looking for an assistant professor! The successful candidate will also become a member of the Acceleration Consortium. Apply now: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

🚨 Our Accelerate #Grants program is now open!

This #funding supports research related to accelerated materials discovery, incl. self-driving labs, AI, automation, and more.

Learn more at our grant mixer on Friday July 4 at 9:30 AM: airtable.com/appYBjHgttvB...

YouTube video by Acceleration Consortium Women in STEM: Meet Marta Skreta | Computer Science PhD Student at University of Toronto

We're spotlighting #WomenInSTEM and their journeys! Meet Marta Skreta, Computer Science PhD student @uoft.bsky.social.

Video by @bme-uoft.bsky.social students Meghan Rothenbroker and Ana-Maria Oproescu, with guidance from Helen Tran, for the AC’s EDI Initiative grant.

🎥 youtube.com/watch?v=h2uR...

Can you build a self-driving lab for $500?

@uoftengineering.bsky.social undergrad students Kyrylo Kalashnikov + Robert Hou did just with their modular, low-cost electrochemistry lab designed to democratize access to discovery.

Read the full story: acceleration.utoronto.ca/news/low-cos...

YouTube video by Acceleration Consortium Women in STEM: Meet Carla Brown | Staff Scientist at the Acceleration Consortium

We’re spotlighting #WomenInSTEM! Meet AC Staff Scientist Carla Brown, who works in our medicinal chemistry self driving lab.

Created by @uoft.bsky.social students Meghan Rothenbroker + Ana-Maria Oproescu with support from Helen Tran and the AC’s EDI Initiate Grant.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3dA...

Hello to our 2025 summer undergraduate research students who will be supporting projects across our self-driving labs at @uoft.bsky.social.

Welcome to the team Eshan Sankar, Hodan Wardere, Kevin Zhu, Mohamed Rami Ayeche, Muhammad Enrizky Brillian, Surabie Sivanendran, Yuchen Han and Elma Chowdhury!

#JOB OPPORTUNITY: Join our team as a Procurement Assistant to support the procurement needs of our 7 SDLs. You’ll play a key role purchasing lab equipment, analyzing quotes, ensuring policy compliance and more. Chemistry or Comp Sci background preferred.

Apply now: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

We’ve EXTENDED the deadline to apply for our EDI Initiate grants until June 20! 🇨🇦 If you're a
@uoft.bsky.social faculty member, student, or trainee, you can apply for funding to tackle EDI barriers in STEM through creative projects.

Apply: acceleration.utoronto.ca/programs/ac-...

🔬Earlier this month, our Director of Research Operations, Brandon Sutherland shared insights at #BIOKorea2025 on how AI is reshaping the future of drug development. The conference is Korea's largest international life sciences event, and we were thrilled to be a part of it🧬

“Automation is transforming chemical research- not by replacing scientists, but by redefining their role.”- @profhein.bsky.social
Dr. Jason Hein's new article discusses how scientists can embrace automation to unlock a new era of discovery.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s442...
@accelerationc.bsky.social

#JOB OPP: We are hiring a Director of Administration to lead operations across our research programs, including oversight of data stewardship and procurement.

If you're a strategic thinker with a track record of operational excellence apply now!

Details: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

#Roboculture is a look
Into the future of biological lab automation! Check out our new work in this space!

@accelerationc.bsky.social

📅 Fri May 23, 11:30am – 1:00pm EST: Join AC staff scientist Zeqing Bao for a virtual webinar on "The Advent of Automated and AI-Driven Benchwork" to explore AI-driven microfluidics and high-throughput discovery.

Register: www.the-scientist.com/the-advent-o...

Say hello to some of our 2025 Accelerate speakers, incl. Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli (MIT), Mitra Taheri (John Hopkins), Brandon Keith (Sanofi) + Kristina McElheran
(UofT).

🎟️ Register now to learn how AI + automation are transforming discovery: 2025.accelerateconf.ca/registration

New year, new venue, new speakers: Accelerate 2025 Based at the University of Toronto, the Acceleration Consortium is a global community of academia, government, and industry that is accelerating the discovery of new materials and molecules needed for...

Join us at our 4th annual Accelerate conference, taking place at @marsdd.bsky.social + #UofT's SRIC🚀 – innovation hubs in the heart of #Toronto. Celebrate + network at our evening social Aug 12 at #EatalyYorkville🍝

Early-bird ends June 26: accelerationconsortium.substack.com/p/new-year-n...

Heart-on-a-chip for drug discovery and disease modelling - Governor General’s Innovation Awards

Congratulations to AC scientific leadership team member Milica Radisic on receiving a Governor General’s Innovation Award for inventing the Biowire heart-on-a-chip — a game-changer in drug testing and disease modelling.

Learn more: innovation.gg.ca/winner/heart... 🏆

#JOB OPP: We're hiring a #labtechnician to support research across all Self-Driving Labs at the Acceleration Consortium. You'll work with engineers, scientists, + industry to set up labs and develop automated platforms for materials science discovery.

Apply: acceleration.utoronto.ca/job-board

We were proud to sponsor the Conscience Symposium in Montreal last month, where Acceleration Consortium staff scientists Carla Brown and Joseph Brown presented our work to accelerate drug discovery.

👋 🤖 Meet El Agente–an autonomous AI for performing computational chemistry, made by the Matter Lab @uoft.bsky.social. This #LLM-powered multi-agent system making computational chemistry more accessible will soon be available worldwide. Sign up 4 the launch: acceleration.utoronto.ca/news/meet-el...