The Hospital for Sick Children
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is the largest paediatric academic health sciences centre in Canada, and one of the largest in the world. Its central mission is to deliver exemplary patient care, to train the next generation of child health leaders, and to develop new interventions and treatments. The synergy between SickKids' Research Institute and its patient care professionals leads to breakthroughs in treatments and ultimately, prevention of childhood disease and injuries.
The Hospital for Sick Children's Research Institute has a staff of 2,000 including approximately 3400 principal investigators, 600 trainees (graduate students and research fellows) as well as visiting scientists, laboratory technologists, research assistants and other support staff.
Funding for research activities and operations comes from two sources. Internal funding (roughly one third of the Research Institute's budget) comes from community donors through SickKids Foundation. Founded in 1972 to support research and education at The Hospital for Sick Children, the Foundation has granted more than $225 million to the hospital for research. External funding comes from peer-reviewed grants awarded to our researchers, as well as from research contracts with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, government agencies and non-profit foundations.
Facilities & Services
- Advanced Bioimaging Centre
- Advanced Protein Technology Centre
- Canadian Mouse Mutant Repository
- Mouse Imaging Centre
- Ontario Centre for Genomic Computing
- The Centre for Applied Genomics
- The Flow Cytometry Facility
Areas of Research
- Cell Biology
- Child Health Evaluative Sciences
- Developmental & Stem Cell Biology
- Genetics & Genome Biology
- Molecular Structure & Function
- Neurosciences & Mental Health
- Physiology & Experimental Medicine
Contact
Corporate Ventures
The Hospital for Sick Children
555 University Avenue
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1X8
Stuart Howe, Ph.D.
Director, Corporate Ventures
Telephone: 416-813-8138
Email: stuart.howe@sickkids.ca
Arlene Yee, DVM, M.Sc.
Director, Technology Partnerships
Telephone: 416-813-8858
Email: arlene.yee@sickkids.ca
Mirella Gonzalez-Zulueta
Senior Business Development Officer
Telephone: 416-813-7654 x. 2004
Email: mirella.gonzalez-zulueta@sickkids.ca
Sarah Fuller, B.A.
Business Development Officer
Telephone: 416-813-7654 x. 1388
Email: sarah.fuller@sickkids.ca
Andrea Thomas
Administrative Assistant
Telephone: 416-813-7739
Email: andrea.thomas@sickkids.ca