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When H.L. Kirkpatrick made a gift of more than $500,000 to the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, his desire was to support prostate cancer research. Instead of funding one project or the work of one scientist, Kirkpatrick’s donation will be used to fund the research of 15 Duke investigators who have teamed to study new ways to prevent, diagnose, and treat prostate cancer. Each of the five funded collaborative research projects includes two to six researchers from a variety of disciplines at Duke including the departments of surgery, radiation oncology, medical oncology, biostatistics, pathology, engineering, and genetics.
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In 2008, the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation awarded a second gift of $6 million to Duke to fund brain tumor research in children. In 2003, the Foundation established the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation Institute at Duke with an initial gift of $6 million. The Institute’s primary goal is to develop innovative and less invasive clinical treatments for children diagnosed with brain tumors. Since Duke received the initial $6 million grant, PBTF-funded research at Duke has focused on projects aimed at developing gene-based therapies, vaccines and other novel treatments for common childhood brain tumors, including medulloblastomas and astrocytomas.
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Alice and Fred Stanback of Salisbury, North Carolina, donated $2 million in December 2007 and again in November 2008, to the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center and Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, continuing their support of a collaborative research initiative between the two institutions. Duke is one of only two universities in the country that can lay claim to a National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center, as well as one of the nation’s premier schools of the environment.
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To honor her husband and to show appreication to her late husband David's oncologist, Herb Hurwitz, MD, Kathryn Lassiter has made a $250,000 planned estate gift to Duke. The David Lassiter Memorial Fund was established to benefit Hurwitz's Phase I Clinical Trial Research Laboratory. Planned gifts include gifts under a will, from an IRA or another retirement account, as well as life income gifts, which provide income to the donor or others during their lifetime.
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