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The University of Toronto has been awarded a $200-million grant from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) to revolutionize the speed and impact of scientific discovery through its Acceleration Consortium. This funding will support the consortium’s work on “self-driving labs” that combine artificial intelligence, robotics and advanced computing to discover new materials and molecules in a fraction of the usual time and cost. Researchers in the consortium recently revealed that they used the technology to develop a potential cancer drug in just 30 days. U of T President Meric Gertler expressed gratitude for the investment in artificial intelligence-driven research and innovation.