The Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada was established under the name of the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute in 1985 by an endowment from the Lunenfeld and Kunin families. On June 24, 2013 Larry and Judy Tanenbaum have made a transformative $35 million gift in support of research at the Mount Sinai Hospital. In recognition of the gift, the Institute was renamed the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute. It comprises 36 principal investigators, has a budget of C$90 million (2005/6), has over 200 trainees and approximately 600 staff. The Institute conducts research into various forms of cancer (colon, breast, pancreatic, prostate), neurological disorders and brain illnesses, |women's and infants' health, diabetes, developmental biolo