CIHR STAGE is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research through the Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research program.

CIHR STAGE builds on the foundation of three established graduate programs at the University of Toronto:

• Dalla Lana School of Public Health (Divisions of Epidemiology and Biostatistics)
• Department of Statistics

National Partners

• The Hospital for Sick Children (Genetics & Genome Biology)
• Ontario Cancer Institute of the University Health Network at Princess Margaret Hospital
• Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
• Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital

International Partners

• IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer), which is part of the World Health Organization.
• Office for Science and Technology of the General Consulate of France in Toronto