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What your gift sets in motion

Real amounts, and what they produced.

What your gift sets in motion

Why a small amount matters here

A large national organisation receives gifts by the million and spreads them across hundreds of programmes. Yours is diluted there, and that is arithmetic, not dishonesty.

The Institute works differently: it funds the start. A seed fund lets a team go on to win far larger public grants that they would never have obtained without first results.

Why a small amount matters here

Three amounts, three consequences

A researcher brought back from Paris

A researcher brought back from Paris

$382,000

Equipment purchased and Dr Bertrand Routy recruited in 2018. His work showed that a course of antibiotics can neutralise an immunotherapy, which now translates into a question asked of the patient before treatment begins.

A cell therapy trial

A cell therapy trial

$1,000,000

Collecting the immune cells lying dormant inside a tumour, waking them, multiplying them into the billions, then returning them to the patient. The Institute and its partners made the move to human trials possible.

Two drugs rather than one

Two drugs rather than one

$165,000

The discovery that ovarian cells survive chemotherapy by going dormant. Published in Nature Communications, it led to a trial combining chemotherapy with an anti senescence drug.

The path of a gift

01

You give

Online, by phone, or at an event.

02

The receipt goes out

An official receipt for income tax purposes is issued to you.

03

The committee decides

Projects are assessed by the expert committee on their scientific value.

04

Results come out

They are published in peer reviewed journals and appear in the annual report.

What we cannot yet prove to you here

A serious donor asks three questions this site does not answer. We would rather say so than dodge them.

  • The exact share of gifts going to research compared with administration and fundraising costs.
  • The total paid out to research since 1947, or even over the last financial year.
  • The registered charity number, which any donor should be able to verify.

The Institute's annual reports are public and contain part of these answers.

What the Institute does in return

Loyal donors

For those who give year after year.

Major donors

For major commitments and named funds.