Breast cancer research receives $25-million boost

The fundraising goal of the recently created Institute for Breast Cancer Research at Toronto’s Princess Margaret Hospital received a major boost with a gift of $25 million from Audrey Campbell and her three daughters. The gift by Campbell, the daughter of the late Roy Thompson, will allow the Institute to double its staff and principal investigators to 150 and 12 respectively. The Institute will be renamed the Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research. Its director is Dr Tak Mak, one of Canada’s most renowned and prolific scientists. He is best known for his 1984 paper on the cloning of T-cell receptor genes. The Institute has a fundraising goal of $150 million and has raised $10 million over the past two years from Toronto’s annual Weekend to End Breast Cancer event….