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Support Topped $116 Million for Year UCSF received more than $116 million in private support from individuals, foundations, corporations, and organizations in the 1996-97 fiscal year, according to the campus’ Development Office. The $116.3 million total marks what has become a steady increase in private support for UCSF during the past decade. UCSF is the only one of the nine UC campuses whose private support during this period has shown constant increases from year to year. A top contributor was J.S. Lee, a 1997 UCSF Medal Award winner, who pledged $200,000 to the UCSF School of Dentistry's $5 million Clinics Modernization Campaign. Funds raised will help provide new state-of-the-art units at the Parnassus clinic, San Francisco General Hospital Community Dental Clinic, and Buchanan Street Dental Clinic. Lee also established the Lee Hysan Dental Scholars Program, a joint project of the UCSF School of Dentistry, the three leading schools of stomatology in China, the government of the People's Republic of China, and the Lee Hysan Foundation. UCSF Foundation member Edward Ageno pledged a total of $5 million for leukemia research and patient care. Ageno, who died this year, was retired and former owner/president of Galileo-Capri Salami, Inc. A.W. (Tom) and Mary Margaret Clausen established a Distinguished Professorship in Neurology in their names last year, with a gift of more than $2.5 million. A.W. Clausen, director of the UCSF Foundation, is the retired chairman and chief executive officer of Bank of America Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiary, Bank of America N.T. & S.A. The professorship -- the highest University honor bestowed upon a faculty member -- will support Alzheimer's disease research and patient care and will be held by a clinician-scientist who will seek to advance the understanding of the genetics and cell biology of the disease. UCSF's new Center for the Neurobiology of Addiction was created by an initial gift this year of $500,000 from the Park Water Company, Inc., of Downey, Calif., through the initiative of Henry H. Wheeler, Jr., President. The company has pledged a total of $5 million for 10 years to support the UCSF Center, in which scientists are exploring, through innovative research, the biological basis of drug addiction. Radiometer, an international medical device company, has pledged $1.1 million for an endowed fellowship in anesthesia research. The Radiometer-John W. Severinghaus Fellowship in Anesthesia Research, named in honor of Severinghaus, professor emeritus of anesthesia at UCSF, provides crucial support to promising young scientists. By Lordelyn del Rosario 1st appeared 10/21/97 |
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