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We are pleased to highlight the following gifts from February
2003:
- Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals has given
$50,000 to support HIV InSite, the cornerstone Web project
of the UCSF Center for HIV Information.
- Lawrence Crooks, who developed the first marketable
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology at UCSF in the
1970s, has contributed $50,000 to support Nancy Rockafellar,
PhD, a research historian in the UCSF History of Health
Sciences Department. The gift will support Rockafellar's
oral history project on the development of MRI technology
and the Bioengineering Program at UCSF.
- Myrna P. and Henry E. Fourcade have given $100,000
to the Stem Cell Discovery Fund to support UCSF's new Program
in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology.
- Janssen Pharmaceutica, Inc., has given $120,000
to the Department of Physiological Nursing. The gift will
support pain management research under the direction of
Department Chair Christine Miaskowski, RN, PhD, FAAN.
- The McBean Family Foundation has awarded a grant
of $100,000 to the Peter McBean Fellowship in Alzheimer's
Research. The funding will support two fellows, one to work
with Bruce Miller, MD, in the UCSF Memory and Aging Center
and another to work under the direction of Lennart Mucke,
MD, at the Gladstone Institute for Neurological Disease
(one of three J. David Gladstone Institutes at UCSF).
- The Potamkin Family has given $50,000 to support
research at the UCSF Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases
under the supervision of Stanley Prusiner, MD, Institute
Director. The late Victor Potamkin and his sons Robert and
Alan established the Potamkin Prize for Alzheimer's Research
in 1988 and have a long history of supporting Prusiner's
work.
- The Sandler Family Supporting Foundation has given
$1.5 million to support innovative UCSF investigators through
the Sandler Program in Basic Science Research.
- Daniel V. Santi, MD, PhD, professor emeritus of
the UCSF School of Pharmacy, has given $170,000 to the Department
of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Santi is the founder and CEO
of Kosan Biosciences.
- Sun Microsystems has made two $50,000 gifts to
Peter Carroll, MD, chair of the Department of Urology at
the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center. One gift will support
a fellowship for prostate cancer research; the other will
be used for renal cell cancer studies.
- Vadasz Family Foundation has given $50,000 to support
breast cancer research at the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer
Center.
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