CancerCare gets record donation
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The CancerCare Manitoba Foundation received a $27-million donation Wednesday, which it says is the largest philanthropic gift to a health-care organization in the province’s history.
The donation came from the Paul Albrechtsen Foundation. The charity’s namesake, trucking magnate Paul Albrechtsen, died at age 88 in 2019, after leaving a legacy of philanthropic donations largely to Winnipeg hospitals in the last decade of his life.
The CancerCare foundation said the money will be spent on four key areas: $17 million for updating research laboratories, $4 million for single cell technology, $2.5 million on genomics and $3.5 million on a cancer centre in Brandon.
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Patti Smith, president and CEO of the CancerCare Manitoba Foundation, announces a $27 million donation from the Paul Albrechtsen Foundation Wednesday.
The research labs are two decades old, the foundation said. The facilities will be rebuilt to current scientific standards and allow CancerCare to expand its research program. The research institute will be renamed the Paul Albrechtsen Research Institute CancerCare Manitoba.
The single-cell technology will consist of a set of five machines that can analyze how cells react and interact with each other in a tumour, which the foundation said will allow doctors to personalize treatment in the future.
— Staff
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