Ski for a Cause

ARIZONA SNOWBOWL DONATES PORTION OF LIFT TICKET TO TGEN

Arizona Snowbowl ski resort will donate a portion

of each life ticket sold Sat., March 8, to the Center

for Rare Childhood Disorders at the Translational

Genomics Research Institute.

TGen Day at the resort starts at 9 a.m. and runs until 5 p.m., an hour later than its usual closing time. Free cocoa, coffee and cookies from 2 to 4 p.m. will accompany Saturday’s special "sunset skiing.”

“This is a great opportunity for my family to contribute to TGen in a significant way,” said Lisa Borowsky, a member of the National Advisory Committee for TGen’s Center for Rare Childhood Disorders. Her father, Eric Borowsky, is the general partner/owner of Arizona Snowbowl.

“We can have fun in the snow and raise funds that will help provide hope and answers for these children and their families.”

TGen’s Center for Rare Childhood Disorders is on the frontline in the battle to provide diagnosis for children whose medical conditions are often just a collection of symptoms, whose conditions are so rare they often don’t even have a name.

TGen’s sequencing machines are able – in a matter of hours – to spell out, in order, the billions of chemical letters that make an individual's DNA, and other elements of their genome.

TGen researchers use that information to provide patients, families and doctors with the best medical options for their unique illnesses. They direct the most appropriate medicine or medical technology to patients based on the unique genomic characteristics of those patients, providing them with the best possible outcomes.

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