Enter Peter Gilgan, the founder and CEO of Mattamy Homes<\/a>, with a stunning donation of forty million dollars. As you can read in last week’s announcement<\/a>, it’s not the first time he’s been involved in raising money for the hospital, but this kicks it up to a whole new level. This represents the single largest philanthropic donation to a children’s hospital in Canada, ever, and believe me, a it’s a very welcome one.<\/p>\n So where’s this cool internet stuff, then? Well, as part of the run-up to the announcement, the SickKids Foundation (the good folks who work with donors to raise all of these funds) put together a rather nice video. The reason I mention it here is that it prominently features The Centre for Applied Genomics, where I work – most, but not all, of the lab equipment and people pipetting are from our group, including the two you see on the splash screen in the YouTube link below. I can claim a tiny role in helping to facilitate the filming, as a kind of lab “fixer”, although the project was organized and overseen by very experienced Foundation personnel and a crack video crew. I stayed conveniently out of shot, in favour of more photogenic colleagues – some of whom have appeared in other videos, such as this rather excellent one<\/a>.<\/p>\n So, without further ado, here it is: Thank You 40 Million Times<\/em>, featuring a bunch of molecular biologists, among others. We’re slated to start moving in just over a year from now, in April\/May of 2013 – exciting times, indeed.<\/p>\n![\"SickKids\"](\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3208\/2930507784_cc74ebe72e.jpg\")
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