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NSERC CREATE Training Program for

Controlled Release Leaders (ContRoL)

What we do

Recent advances in materials science (smart materials, self-assembly), biology (targeting, biomanufacturing), and engineering (statistical optimization, machine learning, high-throughput screening) are enabling the creation of next-generation controlled release technologies to make patient therapeutics safer, more effective, and more convenient, advance precision agriculture to ensure food security, create new functional foods for preventing disease, and design new biomedical devices.

NSERC CREATE ContRoL Training Program

The NSERC CREATE ContRoL Training Program aims to equip trainees with both technical and professional skills to enable them leverage these new technical advances to create real-world products that make an impact both in Canada and worldwide.  We aim to achieve this goal through a combination of diverse partnerships and training initiatives that will give trainees a comprehensive background across all aspects of the field of controlled release and transitioning technologies from the lab to the market.

Term Year 1 Year 2
Fall Term Career Mentoring (initial audit) Job readiness workshop
Development of activities plan Course #2
Winter Term Industry discovery Industry placement
Podcast Interview
Course #1 webinars Online modules (microcredentialed)
Summer Term Course #1 practicum Design sprint
AGM AGM/3MT
Industry skills workshop Career mentoring (final review/feedback)
Lab exchange
Term Year 1 Year 2 Years 3/4
Fall Term Career mentoring (initial audit) Job readiness workshop Podcast interview
Development of activities plan Course #2 Grant writing collaboration
Winter Term

Industry discovery Industry placement Lab exchange
Course #1 webinars Online modules (microcredentialed) Online modules (microcredentialed)
Summer Term Course #1 practicum Design sprint Design sprint mentorship (1 year)
AGM AGM/3MT AGM (annually)
Industry skills workshop Career mentoring (review activities plan) Career mentoring (final review/feedback)
Term Year 1 Year 2
Fall Term Career mentoring (initial audit) Job readiness workshop
Development of activities plan Grant writing collaboration
Winter Term

Industry discovery Industry Placement
Podcast interview
Education 600 teaching course Online modules (microcredentialied)
Summer Term

Co-instruct Course #1 Design sprint
AGM AGM/3MT
Industry skills workshp Career mentoring (final review/feedback)
Lab exchange
Term
Summer Term


Career mentoring
Industry skills workshop
Podcast interview
Design sprint
AGM/3MT

Within the NSERC CREATE ContRoL Training Program, trainees will experience: