Centres, Institutes, and Groups

The University of Guelph's Policy and Procedures on Research Centres and Institutes, and Scholarly Chairs outlines the process for establishing a centre or institute, governance expectations and reporting requirements. The official version of this policy is housed with the University Secretariat.

  • Centres and Institutes
  • Groups
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Ontario Water Consortium - Le Consortium Pour L'Eau De L'Ontario Guelph Wastewater Facility (GWF)

A bench and pilot-scale facility constructed adjacent to the City of Guelph’s municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant, the GWF is owned and operated by the University of Guelph and supported by Ontario Water Consortium.

The GWF has five pilot-scale stations, an ecotoxicology lab, and two basic analytical labs. Users have access to various process streams, including raw wastewater, primary effluent, secondary effluent, tertiary effluent, raw sludge, waste-activated sludge and thickened waste-activated sludge.

The facility also includes two complementary state-of-the-art analytical labs located at the University of Guelph. Analytical equipment include GC/MS, TOC, respirometer, real-time PCR, refrigerated centrifuge, incubator shaker, autoclave, and a digital imaging fluorescence microscope.

Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry and Biochemistry (GWC2)

Provides research opportunities in a myriad of chemical and biochemical research areas including analytical, biological chemistry or biochemistry, inorganic, nanoscience, organic, physical, polymer and theoretical.

The Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry and Biochemistry GWC2 is one of Canada’s largest and most successful graduate schools. The Centre is housed in the Chemistry Department at Guelph and the Chemistry Department at Waterloo, two of Canada’s highest-rated Universities.

Logo for the Honey Bee Research Centre, featuring the illustration of a bee in a honeycomb cell Honey Bee Research Centre

Uniquely qualified to investigate declining populations of honey bees and to provide solutions. Expertise also includes honey bee breeding and genetics.

Institute for Comparative Cancer Investigation (ICCI)

Facilitates translational oncology research in companion animals at the OVC Mona Campbell Centre for Animal Cancer by managing clinical trials and the Companion Animal Tumour Sample Bank (CATSB). Our goals: to advance the understanding of cancer and improve treatment options to benefit both companion animal and human cancer patients.

Tumor Bank: mailto:tumbank@uoguelph.ca

Clinical Trials: mailto:clinical.research@uoguelph.ca

Institute for Sustainable Commerce at Guelph

Supports and advances research and curriculum innovations related to business sustainability, corporate social responsibility and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) research through a coalition of experts in the field.

The Institute acts as a hub for the generation of new research and dissemination of knowledge while being collaborative and inclusive, increasing business sustainability-related curricular and co-curricular content and activities, and enhancing local and global community outreach engagement.