Jump to full article: Duke University News Service, 2005-10-19
Intro: Duke University Medical Center has received a $10 million gift from the Preston Robert Tisch family of New York, N.Y., to support cancer research at the Brain Tumor Center at Duke and the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, Victor Dzau, M.D., chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of the Duke University Health System, announced Wednesday. This is the single largest gift ever received by the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Preston Robert Tisch is chairman of Loews Corporation and chairman and co-owner of the New York Giants football organization.
Of the $10 million gift, $5 million will be used to fund basic and translational research of promising new brain tumor drugs and to support brain tumor clinical trials. This gift, in part, extends the translational program that Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure (ABC2) created with Duke in 2002 to accelerate potentially life-saving drugs from the laboratory to the clinic in an effort to save patients with brain tumors.
The other $5 million will be used to create the Preston Robert Tisch Cancer Investigators' Fund, which will be used to recruit promising new cancer researchers to Duke. Duke University Medical Center will contribute an additional $5 million toward the Investigators' Fund.
In recognition of the gift, the Brain Tumor Center at Duke will be renamed The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke.
"The benevolence of the Preston Robert Tisch family will have an enormous impact upon the search for new brain tumor treatments and we are indebted to them for their generosity," Dzau said. "Their contribution will enable Duke to recruit and retain the brightest researchers and will create tremendous promise for all cancer research at Duke."
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Henry Friedman, M.D., co-leader of the Brain Tumor Center at Duke University, on Robert Preston Tisch, Chairman of Loews Corp., which owns Lorillard Tobacco.
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