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A new institute at StFX targeted at promoting healthy populations in rural Nova Scotia has received a $15 million gift from Dr. Victor and Mona Dahdaleh, through the Victor Dahdaleh Foundation.  The gift will be used to help create the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Hall, which will house the Victor and Mona Dahdaleh Institute for Innovation […]

23/05/2023

The Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart and Lung Research Institute (HLRI) is home to the largest concentration of scientists and clinicians in heart and lung medicine in Europe. The Institute is a joint venture between Cambridge University and Royal Papworth Hospital and represents a major expansion of cardiovascular and respiratory research capacity. It has the ambitious goal of identifying […]

23/05/2023

McGill University recently published an interview with Victor Dahdaleh about his C$30million of philanthropic support to establish a new institute to help transform genomic medicine. Read more here about Victor’s motivations and aspirations for the new Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Institute of Genomic Medicine.  Read more here: https://giving.mcgill.ca/all-stories/future-medicine-mcgills-new-genomic-medicine-institute-promises-transform-healthcare

19/01/2023

A landmark donation to support McGill University’s renowned genomics research and education programs from UK-based alumnus and long-time donor Victor Dahdaleh will be a catalyst for advancements in genomics research. Thanks to gifts from Mr. Dahdaleh totalling more than $30 million, McGill will launch the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Institute of Genomic Medicine. For more details see […]

25/10/2022

The gift will support upgrades to the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Building on York University’s Keele Campus, provide operating funding to CIFAL York and support a new operations facility for the Advanced Disaster, Emergency and Rapid Response Simulation initiative. York was honoured to welcome alumnus and philanthropist Victor Dahdaleh and his wife Mona to campus to celebrate the Victor Dahdaleh Foundation’s new $4-million gift to […]

25/10/2022

Mesothelioma is an aggressive cancer usually caused by breathing in asbestos dust. Most of the cases affect people’s lungs but it can strike in other parts of the body.  With only 7% of those diagnosed surviving more than 5 years, the condition tragically causes 2,394 deaths a year in the UK.   As the UK’s leading […]

04/07/2022

Delighted to see that a paper into the outcome of the MiST 1 work in mesothelioma research, part funded by Victor Dahdaleh Foundation, was recently published in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine. It is encouraging to see positive news in this specialist area of research and the benefits of an innovative trials approach. Full details of […]

01/02/2021

Victor and Mona Dahdaleh were delighted to attend a recent Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund (CCSF) online reception to celebrate the success of CCSF Scholarship recipients. The two latest Victor Dahdaleh Foundation Scholars for the 2020/21 academic year, Rebecca Clark (studying for a PhD in Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical […]

21/12/2020

LONDON, Dec. 2, 2020 — Researchers at York University’s Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, in partnership with Médecins sans Frontières (MSF/Doctors Without Borders), have launched the Safe Water Optimization Tool (SWOT), the first concrete application of artificial intelligence for improving safe water supply in humanitarian operations. SWOT is a new web-based tool to help aid workers ensure […]

02/12/2020