https://www.rhinstitutefoundation.org/about-us daily 0.75 2020-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef379bc8598437b0fb4ad13/1593043017083-Z5X5VB9GIP5CP9QR7MJP/MPC_2.0_157A.jpg About Us - A History of Success Our co-founder, Winnipeg pediatrician Bruce Chown, returned from fighting in the WWI to study medicine at the University and Manitoba and soon after became fascinated with mysterious blood-borne diseases. In 1944 he established the Rh Laboratory, and the rest is history. https://www.rhinstitutefoundation.org/contact-us daily 0.75 2021-03-30 https://www.rhinstitutefoundation.org/home daily 1.0 2022-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef379bc8598437b0fb4ad13/1593045139757-8TWNVXVRKJI7B81L28TA/image-asset.jpeg Home - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef379bc8598437b0fb4ad13/1593045051510-87IXP22HUTMYZB6PF8ZW/image-asset.jpeg Home - 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. https://www.rhinstitutefoundation.org/our-impact daily 0.75 2020-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef379bc8598437b0fb4ad13/1597098416197-RDX1J1N0AR2URE0CBWZR/image-asset.jpeg Our Impact - “So many kids wouldn’t have made it without Dr. Bowman. His life’s work will carry on, helping more people for years to come.” — Naomi Hinz, 45 Naomi survived infancy thanks to the pioneering work and dedication of Dr. John Bowman. https://www.rhinstitutefoundation.org/our-history daily 0.75 2020-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef379bc8598437b0fb4ad13/1600278185807-BQPZ8NWZ51CSH00UPZ93/Dr.-Chown-stamp.png Our History Dr. Chown, honoured in 2020 by Canada Post dedicating a stamp to him, established the Rh Laboratory in Winnipeg in 1944 alongside newly graduated technologist, Marion Lewis, and a Manitoba Provincial Government Grant of $1,200. The lab quickly made monumental discoveries and developed blood-grouping techniques still used today around the world. In the 1950s, the lab developed a method to treat Rh hemolytic disease of the newborn. Rh disease occurs when an Rh negative mother carrying an Rh positive fetus produces antibodies to the Rh protein in the fetal blood, destroying fetal red blood cells. This can result in stillbirth or death of the baby soon after birth. In the 1940s the mortality rate was 50 per cent. Today, thanks to this lab, it is virtually zero in the developed world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef379bc8598437b0fb4ad13/1593042828477-FC1AJBX4RE2TBH4316FG/MPC_1_0_34C.jpg Our History Dr. Bowman became the Medical Director of the Winnipeg Rh Lab in 1961. Together with Drs. Albert Friesen, and Alvin Zipursky, Dr. Bowman performed the first fetal blood transfusions in Canada and developed techniques to predict the Rh disease status of unborn babies. Dr. Bowman’s discoveries saved thousands of lives and formed the basis of what is today one of Manitoba's largest corporate research and development organizations, Cangene Corporation. Dr. Bowman’s work exemplifies what is now known as translational research – moving new discoveries and cutting-edge research concepts from the lab bench into clinical practice worldwide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef379bc8598437b0fb4ad13/1593043017083-Z5X5VB9GIP5CP9QR7MJP/MPC_2.0_157A.jpg Our History