The Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology (MICB) was founded in 1969 jointly by CancerCare Manitoba (formerly the Manitoba Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation) and the University of Manitoba. The institute is associated with the Faculty of Medicine and the Health Sciences Centre and is located on the 5th, 6th and 7th floors of the new CancerCare building at 675 McDermot Ave. in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3E 0V9. The institute is dedicated to fundamental research in biology and its relation to health, with a primary emphasis on cancer and related diseases. Scientists study such challenging problems as the molecular origins of cancer, the regulation of gene activity, AIDS, control of cell movement, inflammation and wound healing, programmed cell death and the biochemical action of cancer chemotherapeutics.