Western University

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1. The University of Western Ontario is the world's top medical doctoral public research university, ranking one percent of the world's higher education institutions and ranked third in the McLean Journal for the fifth consecutive year. The Globe and Mail's large university teaching quality, student satisfaction is the first.

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2. It earns more than $240 million a year in research and has three Nobel Prize winners in its history. As a founding member of the Canadian University Alliance U15, it is also a research cooperation center of more than 500 international research centers, with nearly 140 years of academic accumulation and deep human resources background, and the University of Toronto and other universities called Canada's oldest four universities.

3. The University of Western Ontario's Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry has a high international reputation and influence in the field of basic medicine and applied research and has been working on clinical studies of diabetes. In 1923, Banting won the Nobel Prize in Biology/Medicine for the invention of insulin for the treatment of diabetes, the youngest Nobel Prize in Biology/Medicine in history.

4. Th Ontario Ginseng Innovation and Research Consortium (OGIRC), an interdisciplinary, multi-sectored R&D platform center and multi-[incomplete] with a total $20M budget involving academia, government and industrial partners was established at Western University to advanc innovative technology involved in the agriculture, quality and advanced processing of American ginseng.
 

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Areas of collaborative research and education with Viking Foundation:

      · Natural health products

      · Diabetes

      · Epidemiology and public health

      · Integrative health in medical education