The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation
The Ride to Conquer Cancer
In the inaugural Ride To Conquer Cancer in 2008, 2850 cyclists raised an amazing $l4.5 million. This two-day 200 km cycling event from Toronto to Niagara Falls became Canada’s most successful cycling fundraiser – an amazing achievement for all involved. We had riders from 8 provinces, l4 states and 4 countries.
The success of our first Ride in Toronto has allowed the event to expand to Vancouver, Calgary and Montreal this year, and will be staged again, of course, in Toronto. Projections at this stage indicate strong results in all four provinces and the support from each community has been outstanding.
Ride Impact
The Princess Margaret is commited to cancer research. The Ride funds are being used to support and ensure the sustainability of the leading cancer research initiatives at The Campbell Family Institute at The Princess Margaret.
The monies are used to support promising new research programs such as the Immunotherapy program led by Dr. Pamela Ohashi and Dr. Tak Mak, support the cancer stem cell program led by Dr. John Dick and Dr. Ben Neel and the leading tumour hypoxia program led by Dr. Brad Wouters and Dr. Michael Milosevic.
The funds are also used to support research platforms where The Princess Margaret is a world leader, such as image-guided technology and robotic surgery, the world leading clinical trials program that support specific cancer types and a world class BioBank initiative.
The Princess Margaret has over l50 highly skilled basic and clinical scientists and over 1,000 people all employed in our research enterprise. The funds from The Ride help support the people who keep the research going and this activity helps maintain our position as one of the top 5 cancer research centres in the world