Also, Nemours Children’s Health has received $25 million to create a think tank in pediatric health equity, and Reed Hastings and Patty Quillin gave $10 million to support a long-standing partnership between Tougaloo College and Brown University.
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WESTWOOD On Thursday, February 11, UCLA announced they received a $29 million gift to create the Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Center for Precision Genomic Medicine.
The new center hopes to improve the diagnosis and treatment of a wide variety of genetic disorders. They include both common illnesses and rare diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, immune disorders, autism, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
“I am so grateful to Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg for their remarkable vision and generosity and for placing their confidence in UCLA’s capacity for innovation,” said UCLA Chancellor Gene Block. “Combining our health system’s strengths in biomedical research and clinical care, the Ginsburg Center is sure to benefit patients and their families through life-saving, individualized treatments.”
LOS ANGELES (CNS) UCLA has received a $29 million gift to establish a center where scientists and physicians will work side by side to examine the role of genetics in disease, and develop therapies that improve patients lives, it was announced Thursday.
The gift creates the Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Center for Precision Genomic Medicine. The new center will build on UCLA s efforts in precision health to leverage large data sets and innovative genomic technologies such as CRISPR engineering to improve diagnosis and treatment of a wide variety of genetic disorders including both rare diseases and more common illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and immune disorders, diseases of the eye and brain disorders such as autism, Parkinson s and Alzheimer s.