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We are pleased to highlight the following gifts and pledges
from May 2003:
- Biogen, Inc. has given $75,000 in support of patient
care programs at the UCSF Multiple Sclerosis Center.
- The Cancer League, Inc. has given $25,000 to support
cancer risk community education seminars and $9,000 to fund
research into the effects of Chinese herbal treatments on
ovarian cancer at the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center.
- Gilead Sciences, Inc. has given $75,000 to fund
HIV InSite (http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu), a project of the
UCSF Center for HIV Information (CHI) at the Department
of Medicine at the San Francisco Veterans Administration
Medical Center. Laurence Peiperl, MD, director of the CHI,
is editor-in-chief of HIV InSite.
- Diana and Harry Hind have given $2.65 million to
establish the Harry W. and Diana V. Hind Distinguished Professorship
in Pharmaceutical Science.
- Johnson & Johnson has given $50,000 to support
the HIV and AIDS Program at the UCSF Center of Excellence
in Women's Health under the direction of Nancy Milliken,
MD.
- Tina and John Mehan have committed $100,000 to
support endometrial cancer research under the direction
of Alan B. Glassberg, MD, at the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer
Center.
- The Perrigo Company Foundation has given $57,000
to the UCSF School of Pharmacy.
- The Jeffrey and Karen Peterson Family Foundation
has gifts of $250,000 to support recruitment of a medical
oncologist for the UCSF Program in Thoracic Oncology, $250,000
to fund research in the UCSF Program in Pediatric Leukemia,
$200,000 to fund research at the UCSF Institute for Neurodegenerative
Diseases and patient care at the ALS Research and Patient
Care Center, and $25,000 to fund pediatric patient care
at the UCSF Diabetes Center.
- Carla Emil and Richard Silverstein have pledged
$50,000 to the Stem Cell Discovery Fund to support stem-cell
related research at UCSF. Their gift will be matched by
Andrew S. Grove, National Chair of the Campaign for UCSF,
as part of the Grove Challenge for Stem Cell Research.
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