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We are
pleased to highlight the following gifts and pledges received during February 2005:
- The Capecchio Foundation has pledged $191,000 to fund audiology research conducted by UCSF Medical Center Audiology Director Robert W. Sweetow, PhD.
- The Sherman Fairchild Foundation, Inc., has made a $3.7 million grant to support the discovery of anti-prion drugs under the leadership of Stanley Prusiner, MD, director of the UCSF Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases. The grant is the largest ever awarded to UCSF by the Foundation.
- The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation has awarded a grant of $2.8 million to support the JDRF Center for Islet Transplantation at UCSF and the University of Minnesota. An additional grant of $47,000 supports pancreatic beta cell research at the UCSF Diabetes Teaching Center.
- The Estate of Carol F. Koshland has distributed a bequest of $125,000 to support AIDS research by Jay A. Levy, MD, director of the Laboratory for Tumor and AIDS Virus Research.
- The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has given a grant of $335,000 to the Institute for Health Policy Studies within the UCSF School of Medicine.
- Emily and Thomas W. Weisel have given $100,000 to support the work of Jonathan P. Terdiman, MD, in the Cancer Risk Program.
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