May-2019
The endowment, which will be used to create the Juravinski Research Centre, will provide $5 million a year for research. Hamilton’s medical research community is abuzz with a $100 million gift from local philanthropists Charles and Margaret Juravinski. The gift is a legacy endowment fund, which means the money will be given out once the […]
An Ontario couple who grew up in poverty during the Great Depression and became self-made millionaires have pledged to donate the bulk of their estate, totalling more than $100-million, to create a new health-research institute in Hamilton. The endowment from Charles and Margaret Juravinski, called the Juravinski Research Centre, will be a joint partnership between […]
Researchers at McMaster University have invented a stable, affordable way to store fragile vaccines for weeks at a time at temperatures up to 40C, opening the way for life-saving anti-viral vaccines to reach remote and impoverished regions of the world. The new method combines the active ingredients in existing vaccines with a sugary gel, where […]