The latest news at the Acceleration Consortium

Acceleration Consortium Impact Report [March 1, 2023 - March 31, 2024]

Low-cost, open-source robotic system could make self-driving labs more accessible to students and researchers

Using an automated chemistry lab to find the origin of life

Meet Anatole von Lilienfeld, the inaugural Clark Chair in advanced materials discovery

Turning trains into gigatonne-scale carbon capture systems

This chemist is reimagining the discovery of materials using AI and automation

University of Toronto breaks ground on new home for the Acceleration Consortium

University of Toronto researchers use quantum computer to discover potential cancer drug treatment

U of T receives $200-million grant to support Acceleration Consortium's ‘self-driving labs’ research

U of T researchers develop new approach using quantum computers to accelerate drug discovery

Toxic Tour

U of T and BASF partner on self-driving labs to advance agriculture, medicine and more

The Acceleration Consortium to launch micro-credentials program in digital discovery

The Acceleration Consortium joins the AI Alliance

The Acceleration Consortium awards over $2.5 million to projects that accelerate scientific discovery

The lab of the future is now

This chemical purification process just got smarter

The Acceleration Consortium welcomes industry members: Genentech and Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

The Acceleration Consortium and Unilever partner on self-driving lab to formulate personal care products

These scientists left the US in Trump’s first term: their tips on taking the leap

“Delocalized, Asynchronous, Closed-Loop Discovery of Organic Laser Emitters” demonstrates the AC’s global leadership in self-driving labs

Undergraduate Student researchers cap off a successful summer at the Acceleration Consortium

Pioneering AI-Driven Chemical Discovery: A collaborative effort between the University of Toronto and the University of Illinois

The Acceleration Consortium awards inaugural grants to advance social science research on the implications of speeding up science with AI and automation

Telescope Innovations installs Korea’s first self-driving lab for pharma R&D and education

Robotic scientists will 'speed up discovery'

On sale now: Accelerate Conference, Aug 30–Sept 2

Posters (and prizes)! Submission deadline: July 17

New study uses AlphaFold and AI to accelerate design of novel drug for liver cancer

Meet the women changing STEM: AC EDI grant holders launch video series to showcase women in accelerated discovery

Nanochemistry pioneer Geoffrey Ozin’s new guide to energy materials for a sustainable future

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, collaborates with Acceleration Consortium on open-sourcing AI-driven experimentation planner

Meet the recipients of the Acceleration Consortium’s new scale-up program for translational research

Meet our keynotes

Meet El Agente, an autonomous AI for performing computational chemistry

David Sinton interviewed by Global News on how AI is accelerating research to fight climate change

Intrepid: build better medicines, fast

Meet the postdocs–and then apply to join them!

Deputy prime minister meets with university leaders, researchers, grad students at U of T's Acceleration Consortium

Let the laboratory do its own work

Kumacheva and Aspuru-Guzik paper highlights groundbreaking self-driving nanochemistry lab

From mitigating weather disasters to mapping genetic diversity: U of T’s Schmidt AI in Science Postdoc announces first cohort

Fast forward

Exploring chemical space with Anatole von Lilienfeld

Crowdsourcing designs for the next generation of self-driving labs

Experts say $200-million grant awarded to U of T will drive ‘big science’ via the Acceleration Consortium

Gift from Schmidt Futures to spark a revolution in AI-based STEM research at the University of Toronto

Alan Aspuru-Guzik explains how AI is revolutionizing cancer treatment in interview with CTV News

Acceleration Consortium, Matter Lab, and Vector Institute collaborate on software to power self-driving labs

Collaboration update: The Acceleration Consortium’s self-driving labs using Merck's BayBE in their automated workflows

Balancing Lab and Family: How the Acceleration Consortium’s Caregiver Grant is Changing the Game

Anyone can download an autonomous ‘research robot’ from the Air Force Research Laboratory

Automating discovery: The rise of robot labs

Alán Aspuru-Guzik named Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Alán Aspuru-Guzik receives 2024 PRISM Prize

Alán Aspuru-Guzik named AI2050 senior fellow by Schmidt Sciences

Acceleration Consortium announces its first two faculty Accelerator awards recipients, each valued at $750,000

Alán Aspuru-Guzik has seen the lab of the future, and it’s very, very fast

Acceleration Consortium announces new agreements to build capacity for self-driving labs in Canada

The Acceleration Consortium cements partnership with global technology leader Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Acceleration Consortium’s Sean Caffrey receives President’s Excellence Award for Distinguished Excellence

Acceleration Consortium announces $70k in funding for its EDI Initiate Grant program

Accelerate Seed Grant recipient will study incorporating sustainability into self-driving lab material discovery and development

Acceleration Consortium announces $1.2 million in funding for projects that accelerate scientific discovery

Accelerate Moonshot Grant recipient plans to revolutionize hip and knee replacement materials

Accelerate Translation Grant recipient is using self-driving lab technology for lipid nanoparticles discovery to support new mRNA therapies

Accelerate Conference, from Toronto to Singapore

Accelerating the discovery of organic lasers with self-driving labs

Aug 31: Opening keynote and panel featuring Jordan Jacobs, Garth Gibson, Leah Cowen, and Alan Bernstein