Date Posted: 10/24/2026
Closing Date: 11/13/2026, 11:59PM EDT
Req ID: 50752
Job Category: Sessional Instruction
Faculty/Division: Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Department: Dept of Lab. Medicine & Pathobiology
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Description:
Entrepreneurship is the key pathway for delivering and capturing value from new health and medical discoveries. All health science graduate students can benefit from having a basic understanding of entrepreneurial thinking – how to drive innovations forward in new or existing enterprises. This module will equip students with an entrepreneurial toolkit intended to help identify new opportunities; design new business ideas; and more effectively manage innovation and commercialization processes.
The module will introduce students to the basics of Business Design – an approach that combines human-centered design and business strategy delivering and capturing value from new discoveries. Students will use a platform to build the key elements of popular business model canvases to explore, assess and decide on the most critical factors in building business around their own idea/venture.
Estimated course enrollment: ~ 25 students
Estimated TA support: not applicable
Class schedule: 2-hour seminar-style workshops; occurring Mondays from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Sessional dates of appointment: March 1, 2027 – April 30, 2027
Salary (0.25FCE):
Sessional Lecturer I - $4,998.74
Sessional Lecturer I - Long Term - $5,349.61
Sessional Lecturer II - $5,349.61
Sessional Lecturer II - Long Term - $5,476.98
Sessional Lecturer III - $5,476.98
Sessional Lecturer III - Long Term - $5,614.45
Please note that should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail.
Minimum qualifications: Minimum 5 years of experience in commercialization and business development models.
Preferred qualifications: Masters degree with equivalent professional and/or academic experience is preferred.
Description of duties: Preparation and delivery of course content, including lectures and/or seminars; creation of courseware; the development and administration of assignments, tests and examinations; marking and grading of student work and the submission of grades to appropriate University officials, maintenance of reasonable hours of student contact outside of scheduled contact hours.
Application instructions: Please submit application using the following form: Winter 2027: Sessional Lecturer: LMP2352H: Intrapreneurship, Entrepreneurship and Business Model Design (0.25FCE)
CAUTION: This ad is “posted only” to the U of T CUPE 3902 Unit 3 job board. Please see the informationdirectly above for the application instructions; applications submitted via the "Apply Now" button on this page will NOT be considered for this position.
This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement.
It is understood that some announcements of vacancies are tentative, pending final course determinations and enrolment. Should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail. Preference in hiring is given to qualified individuals advanced to the rank of Sessional Lecturer II or Sessional Lecturer III in accordance with Article 14:12 of the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 collective agreement. Please note: Undergraduate or graduate students and postdoctoral fellows of the University of Toronto are covered by the CUPE 3902 Unit 1 collective agreement rather than the Unit 3 collective agreement, and should not apply for positions posted under the Unit 3 collective agreement.