| • | OHSU received nearly $7 million for medical student scholarships from the estate of Mary Jane Stamm, M.D., a pioneering OHSU alumna and obstetrician. Stamm was one of only two female graduates in the University of Oregon (now OHSU) Medical School class of 1943. |
| • | The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation pledged $5.5 million to launch the Harold Schnitzer Diabetes Health Center. This multidisciplinary center is dedicated to improving the quality of diabetes care throughout Oregon. |
| • | Lori and Jen-Hsun Huang of Los Altos Hills, California, committed $5 million to establish the James W. Mills Cancer Research Laboratories in OHSU’s Biomedical Research Building. The Huangs made this gift in honor of Lori’s father, James W. Mills, a chronic myelogenous leukemia patient treated successfully with Gleevec – developed at OHSU by Brian Druker, M.D. |
| • | A $2 million estate gift from Elda Munson will endow a professorship in pediatric neuroscience research awarded to Stephen Back, M.D. |
| • | OHSU will receive more than $1.3 million from the estate of John R. Andrews to support alcoholism research and treatment. The funds will support the work of John Crabbe, Ph.D., director of the Portland Alcohol Research Center (PARC), a collaboration between OHSU and the Portland VA Medical Center. |
| • | Ruth Layton committed $1 million to endow the Layton Professorship in Neurology, a faculty position to be awarded to an OHSU researcher in the field of neurodegenerative diseases. |
| • | The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation granted $701,781 to OHSU through the School of Nursing to evaluate the Oregon Consortium for Nursing Education and its impact in addressing the nursing shortage in Oregon. |
| • | The M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust awarded $650,000 to OHSU through the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine for the construction of a one-of-a-kind high-speed digital camera to help develop a unique new therapy for cardiovascular disease. |
| • | More than 370 women attended the OHSU Center for Women’s Health’s second annual Hats Off to the Hill luncheon on May 7. The event raised $260,000 to support Free Fridays, OHSU’s free pelvic screening program for underserved women. The inaugural event provided free services to nearly 100 women. |
| • | The OHSU Center for Women’s Health Circle of Giving held its second annual Granting Meeting on May 12. Circle funds are pooled and members vote on where to award their grant. SuEllen Pommier, Ph.D., was selected as the 2008 recipient of $125,000 to underwrite her investigation of breast cancer stem cells. |
| • | Ronni Lacroute, co-owner of Willakenzie Winery, made a $100,000 gift to OHSU through the new OHSU Brain Institute. |
| • | Dennis and Anna Mae Dahlin made a $100,000 gift to the OHSU School of Dentistry building campaign. |
| • | The OHSU School of Nursing received several gifts from family, friends and colleagues in honor of Jean Bates to establish the Jean Bates Scholarship for Nursing, to support OHSU Nursing students. |
| • | OHSU renamed its Basic Sciences Building as a tribute to the memory of longtime OHSU Foundation trustee and OHSU faculty member Dick Jones, M.D., Ph.D. Richard T. Jones Hall for Basic Medical Sciences was dedicated at a June 1 ceremony. |
| • | Markus Grompe, M.D., was appointed the first Ray Hickey Chair of Pediatric Research and the inaugural director of the Papé Family Pediatric Research Institute. The endowed position will enable Dr. Grompe to recruit new scientists with expertise in gene therapy and other emerging fields in an effort to establish the institute as a regional leader in pediatric disease research. |
| • | The OHSU School of Dentistry announced two newly established endowment funds – the John A. Wagoner, D.M.D., Restorative Dentistry Scholarship and the Donald R. Porter Endowment Fund supporting pediatric dentistry research by faculty or residents at the school. |
| • | OHSU launched the Innovation & Seed Fund, an innovative program to stimulate the commercialization of OHSU discoveries through philanthropy. Donors to this special fund are eligible for a state income tax credit under the University Venture Development Fund for Oregon, enacted in 2007 by the state Legislature to support technology transfer programs at Oregon’s public universities. |
| • | OHSU’s most generous supporters gathered November 6 for the second annual President’s Society recognition event, combining a special luncheon with presentations on leading OHSU programs. |
