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SickKids opens Peter Gilgan research tower by Nathan Howes Special to the Beaver 5 | Thursday, September 19, 2013 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com The Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning is expected to usher in a new generation of innovation for the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). At 21 storeys and 750,000 square feet, the new facility houses 2,000 researchers and is considered by SickKids to be the largest child health research tower in the world. It is named after Oakville's Peter Gilgan, founder and CEO of Mattamy Homes, who donated $40 million to the $200-million fundraising campaign. The $400-million tower was officially unveiled on Tuesday to members of the science and healthcare community in Toronto. "It's only the start of a lot of great things to come. It's a celebration of a new (centre) that will be facilitated by great minds doing research in the medical field," said Gilgan. "To share their ideas is really going to accelerate the improvement of children's health, not only in this city but (across) the country." Gilgan, who was the lead donor for the campaign, said he contrib- uted $40 million to show leadership since "every campaign needs to have momentum." "Campaigns can't languish forever or they never get done. Being able to make that size of a (donation) contributed to the velocity of the campaign and really was a statement to others," said Gilgan. "This is a project with such significance that it was really worth getting behind." When it comes to children's health, Gilgan said there's no debate on how important it is because it "touches us all." "The ability for this facility to improve children's health for decades (to come) by the innovations and things that will be discovered and developed here (is) amazing," said Gilgan. Along with Gilgan, SickKids secured 13,000 donors in its fundraising campaign. SickKids president and CEO Mary Jo Haddad, also of Oakville, said Gilgan's donation "catapulted" the hospital by inspiring a community of donors to help surpass its goal. "Forty-million (dollars) is a huge vote of confidence in our vision and what we're building for the future. It's a huge vote of confidence for Toronto (and) for science and research in the Oakville's Peter Gilgan, who heads up Mattamy Homes, was on hand as SickKids' Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning officially opened in Toronto Tuesday. | photo by Nathan Howes ­ special to the Beaver Toronto and Discovery District," said Haddad. "This is (also) about city building, (it's) about bringing science to the street and it's about innovation and improving child health." The facility features new state-of- the-art laboratories, learning facilities and multi-level interactive spaces. The tower is divided into research neighbourhoods where scientists and trainees from different areas of expertise will work side-by-side. "The Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning has been a longtime coming. It's really our commitment to research in the future of child health through the creation of this wonderful building," said Haddad. She explained SickKids has a "very broad" research program that includes everything from discovery and clinical research to applied, population and health research. "Our programs are created where people can work in their lab, but also come out of their labs into integrated spaces with beautiful windows (and) the opportunity to share their (research) and spur each other on to come to conclusions faster," she added. While staff and researchers start moving in this week, Haddad said the actual move will take weeks. Going forward, people can expect the centre to create a "spectrum of innovation that none of us will be able to keep up with," Gilgan explained. "With the development of genetics, we're going to see things move so quickly in health care it will make our head spin. It will be really hard to keep up with," he said. "Being able to use those new findings and exploit them will advance health care for our young people for the next generation." 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