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Show us the beauty of your specialty! The LMP art competition

Find out who won the 2025 Art Competition!

You can view all the submissions and winners at LMP Art Competition winners 2025.

Email lmp.communications@utoronto.ca if you have any questions.

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The next LMP Art Competition

The next competition will open in early 2026.

Categories and prizes

You can choose which category your work falls into.

Each category will have a 1st and 2nd place winner who will receive a printed copy of their work plus:

  • 1st prize = $200 gift card
  • 2nd prize = $100 gift card

Winning images will be showcased in our art show at the Annual Celebration of Excellence on June 19, 2025.

The categories

  1. Clinical Science
  2. Basic/Translational Science

How to enter

All submitted images may be used in LMP communications and branding - some may even be used U of T- wide.

Complete the online form and attach your image in a high-resolution format (minimum file size 500KB – see the rules below) or include a link to it.

Who judges the artwork

The LMP community votes for their favourites by online voting.

The LMP Vice Chairs Council and Department Chair Dr. Rita Kandel, will count the votes and make the deciding vote should there be a tie.

We will let you know the results by email.

The rules

  • Open only to members of the LMP community: current registered students, trainees, fellows, staff, faculty or alumni
  • One entry to be submitted per person.
  • Each entry can only be submitted under one category.
  • Please consider that these images will be on public display so avoid any images that are too graphic in nature. All images must be suitable for public consumption.
  • This must be your image, for which you hold the rights to distribute. Please indicate on the form how credit for the image should be given.
  • Image should be a jpeg or png and be no less than 500KB in size (ideally several MB). If you'd like to submit a TIF file, please contact lmp.communications@utoronto.ca as the submission form will not accept this file type.
  • By submitting an image, you are giving the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology and the University of Toronto permission to use it for promotional purposes (website, social media, publications), regardless of whether you win a prize.
  • You cannot submit an image previously submitted in an LMP Art Competition.
  • Original artwork, edited images, photography etc. are all accepted, as long as it showcases your specialty/field in some way and can be communicated digitally (voting is online)
  • Be creative and have fun!

Contact lmp.communications@utoronto.ca if you have any questions.

See submissions and winners from previous competitions

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