Also, Virginia Commonwealth U. has received $104 million for liver research, and a $45 million gift will create the Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute.
Virginia Commonwealth University will radically expand treatment options for liver and liver-related metabolic diseases thanks to a historic, transformational $104 million gift from Richard Todd Stravitz, M.D., and his family's Barbara Brunckhorst Foundation.
The death of Barbara Brunckhorst daughter of Boar’s Head founder Frank Brunckhorst has sparked a court fight among the two families who control the secretive deli meats company estimated to earn around $1 billion annually.