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OUR FOUNDATIONS THE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION
Empowering Research
Donors fuel innovation and discovery in the quest to conquer cancer
Our passionate community of supporters has Cancer Centre to launch the Allan Slaight
continued to show their commitment to the vision Breakthrough Forum, an annual event that will
of Conquering Cancer In Our Lifetime. Through bring together the world’s leading cancer scientists
their support, The Princess Margaret Cancer to promote collaboration in cancer discovery. As
Foundation delivered a record-breaking $161 part of this, $1 million in collaborative research
million to further life-saving cancer research and funding will be awarded annually to other leading
patient care. A few of our major milestones are cancer researchers in Canada.
highlighted below.
MINING FOR DEEP INSIGHTS
$50M CLOSER TO OUR GOAL Yamana Gold Inc. made a generous $4 million gift
A transformational $50 million gift from La to create the Yamana Gold Research Acceleration
Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso and The Slaight Fund, which provides seed funding for high-risk,
Family Foundation is helping scientists at the high-reward research projects with the greatest
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre to continue potential to help patients. The fund was created
making world-changing breakthroughs in cancer alongside the Yamana Gold Discovery to Impact
research. Their gift enabled the establishment Grant and two Yamana Gold Cancer Research
of the Allan Slaight Breakthrough Fund, which Fellowships. The first recipients of the inaugural
will support innovative, unconventional and annual Yamana Gold Discovery to Impact Grant
creative approaches to cancer research. The gift are Senior Scientists Drs. Rama Khokha and
was made in honour of the late business legend Thomas Kislinger, and Clinician Investigator
and philanthropist Allan Slaight by his wife, Dr. Hal Berman, whose research explores new
Emmanuelle Gattuso, and his son, Gary Slaight. strategies to prevent breast cancer in high-risk
The funds will also enable the Princess Margaret patients by targeting fatty acid metabolism.
LOTTERIES RAISE MILLIONS RIDE TO CONQUER CANCER
The Princess Margaret Home Lottery and the The 2021 Enbridge Ride to Conquer Cancer
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Princess Margaret Cottage Lottery raised $91.7 was a hybrid event. It raised $9.4 million and
million to fuel life-saving cancer research. 4,000 people participated in the ride.
