UArizona Cancer Center Receives $8.5M Gift to Establish Ginny L. Clements Breast Cancer Research Institute

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UArizona Cancer Center Receives $8.5M Gift to Establish Ginny L. Clements Breast Cancer Research Institute
The gift from  breast cancer survivor and longtime UArizona supporter Ginny Clements establishes an endowment for the new institute, along with endowed positions and renovated lab space.
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UArizona President Robert C. Robbins and Ginny Clements at an Aug. 31 event celebrating Clements' commitment of $8.5 million to establish the Ginny L. Clements Breast Cancer Research Institute.
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University of Arizona [e-mail]520-404-7834A breast cancer survivor and longtime supporter of the University of Arizona has given $8.5 million to theUArizona Cancer Centerto strengthen the center ' s breast cancer patient care and research programs.Ginny L. Clements made the gift in advance of the 65th anniversary of her breast cancer diagnosis; Clements was diagnosed in April 1956 at the age of 15. The gift establishes an endowment for the Ginny L. Clements Breast Cancer Research Institute and will fund a new endowed director ' s chair, two professorships, startup packages for those professors, and lab renovations." Ginny has been a long-standing a...

Source: The University of Arizona: Health - October 14, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: mittank Source Type: research