The Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research has continued to flourish during the past year. As Director of Research of the Jewish General Hospital, I am grateful to all of our scientists for their diligence, ingenuity, and hard work that have enabled us to maintain a position of outstanding achievement and respect throughout the scientific world. Most important is that much of this success is due to our growing number of clinician scientists who are committed to excellence in both research as well as patient care, and whose presence in our hospital compliments the excellence of our full-time research oriented Ph.D. staff. This is the type of balance that every medical research institute tries to achieve, and we now have such balance since the Institute was founded in 1965.

Since the most recent expansion of the Lady Davis Institute in 1991, we have come under increasing pressure in regard to available space as a result of the excellence of many members of our staff, who have successfully competed in multiple grant competitions and whose laboratories have expanded significantly since their initial recruitment to our Institute. At the same time, we have continued to recruit outstanding scientists and clinicians.

Dr. Mark A. Wainberg, O.C., O.Q., Ph.D., F.R.S.C.
Director of Research of the Jewish General Hospital