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Patient Gives Thanks for Health through Gift
"I just want prostate cancer research at UCSF to be at the edge - wherever the edge is," Philip Greer says of the Greer Family Foundation's $250,000 gift to UCSF. More |
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Gift Establishes Chair and Honors Leaders in Pediatric Diabetes
In November 2007, Gitelman was named holder of the Mary B. Olney, MD/KAK Chair in Pediatric Diabetes and Clinical Research. The chair, established with a $500,000 anonymous gift, honors Gitelman's work and will help fund research for the treatment and prevention of diabetes. More |
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Community Center at Mission Bay Named for William J. Rutter
William J. Rutter is the Moses of Mission Bay, declares Lloyd H. "Holly" Smith, MD, former chair of the Department of Medicine and associate dean of the UCSF School of Medicine. "Rutter’s vision has brought the children of Parnassus Heights to this promised land," he says. More |
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UCSF Receives $150 Million Pledge for Cancer Center
UCSF has received a $150 million pledge to support clinical and research programs of the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center. It is the largest philanthropic commitment from an individual ever received by the University and was given anonymously. More |
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$25 Million Gift to Launch New Child, Adolescent Mental Health Center
UCSF has received one of the largest single donations ever given to an American university for child and adolescent mental health services. The $25 million gift will jump-start the creation of a comprehensive program dedicated to improving the emotional well-being of Bay Area youth, regardless of socioeconomic status. More
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Endowed Chair Will Help Nursing School Reduce Health Disparitiese
The Ernest Bates Foundation contributed $250,000 to establish the Sally Bates Endowed Chair in Health Disparities in the School of Nursing. The gift will support research, teaching, and service activities related to underserved and minority populations.
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"Fight for Mike" Targets Rare Neurodegenerative Disease
When longtime Silicon Valley executive Mike Homer was diagnosed last May with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) – a rare and deadly neurodegenerative disorder – he decided to try to beat the odds. Out of his struggle came a fundraising campaign, "Fight for Mike," that holds promise of helping other sufferers and would-be sufferers of the brain-wasting disease, which kills about 90 percent of patients within one year of symptom onset.
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Bequest to Invigorate Pancreatic Cancer Research at UCSF
Pancreatic cancer is among the most painful and deadliest of cancers, afflicting 37,000 new patients each year and killing 33,000 individuals. Sufferers are rarely diagnosed with the disease until symptoms have already appeared; by that time, it has often advanced beyond a curable stage.
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Alumna's Gift a
"Thank You" to School
of Dentistry
As a welder and truck driver during World War II, Helyn Luechauer, DDS '66, learned robust skills, met unlikely characters, and gained the satisfaction of helping her country. But those rough-and-tumble years also gave Helyn, then in her early 20s, something more lasting: steadfast confidence in the face of surly opposition.
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Pharmacy School Benefits from Family Ties
Agnes Vinson met Walter Anderson over a Bunsen burner at the School of Pharmacy. Their sparks produced two marriages, two future UCSF grads, and—more than 60 years later—one very generous gift to the School.
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