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On January 13, the Honourable Mike Lake, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Industry, announced an additional $19.6 million in funding to NeuroDevNet, a national research network dedicated to understanding children’s brain development.
Dr. James Lim's laboratory at the Child & Family Research Institute focuses on finding new ways to help children fight leukemia. Dr. Lim's team recently discovered that a group of cell adhesion proteins called integrins, which promote the ability of leukemia cells to survive chemotherapy.
We need you today for a better tomorrow. Our kids are counting on it.
We believe there’s nothing we can’t do with your support. It can take years to turn scientific breakthrough into new interventions and treatments. Funding helps speed the pace of change. When given the resources, we can bring transformative therapies – and hope – out of the laboratory and into the clinic to save and improve children’s lives.