Supporting research that enriches
We aim to improve child health.
The Winnipeg Rh Institute Foundation is a private, non-profit organization that supports the advancement of knowledge in all fields, especially endeavours that aim to improve child health.
Working with our partner institutions—the University of Manitoba, the Children Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, the University of Winnipeg and the Winnipeg Art Gallery—we support rising, and established, researchers, scholars and artists.
Our founders developed a vaccine that has saved countless lives around the globe.
Today, we have distributed no less than $4.5 million to support projects in the sciences and humanities that serve the betterment of communities. In 2019, we provided $1 million to endow the Dr. John M. Bowman Chair in Pediatrics and Child Health at the University of Manitoba.
Created to make a difference.
Dr. John (Jack) Bowman, Dr. Bruce Chown, Professor Marion Lewis and David Bowles founded the Winnipeg Rh Institute in 1969 to continue the research begun by Dr. Chown, and later by Dr. Bowman, to address Rh hemolytic disease of the newborn.
In the early 1990s, the Institute was sold to Apotex, and the Winnipeg Rh Institute Foundation was established with royalty funds from the sale. On January 17, 1992, the Foundation was incorporated as a private, non-profit charitable organization.