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Penn Connects > Campus Master Plan
A Vision for the FutureAnne and Jerome Fisher Make $50 Million Gift to Translational Medicine Research Center
June 3, 2008
A $50 million gift from philanthropists Jerome, W'53, and Anne Fisher will support a
new eight-story biomedical-research center at the University of Pennsylvania
dedicated to the growing field of translational medicine, which emphasizes an
accelerated pace for converting laboratory discoveries into medical
therapies.
Slated to open in 2010, the Anne and Jerome Fisher Translational Research Center (see tower pictured at right) will be adjacent to Penn’s two new state-of-the-art outpatient-care facilities that will begin operations this year and in 2009. Together, the three facilities will reconfigure the Penn medical campus to tightly align medical research and care and to enable Penn to offer the most advanced treatments for cancer, cardiovascular disease and other serious health conditions.
"All of us at the University of Pennsylvania are enormously grateful to Anne and Jerome for this incredibly generous and transformational gift which will further position Penn at the forefront of bench-to-bedside medicine," Penn President Amy Gutmann said.
"The Fishers' long and steadfast commitment to Penn has profoundly impacted the University, and this significant gift continues their legacy of supporting eminence in areas that become signature strengths of Penn, such as the Fisher Program in Management and Technology and the Anne and Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library."
"Anne and I love Penn," Jerome Fisher said, "and we have long felt that investing in this world-class university is investing in the future of humankind itself. We are especially pleased to be able to make a contribution that will impact advances in health care, something which touches everyone's life."
This most recent Fisher contribution to Penn is the largest capital gift to Making History to date. It is one of the largest gifts in the history of Penn and the second largest gift to PENN Medicine. A professorship in hematology and oncology named in honor of the Fishers' daughter, Jodi Fisher, is also included in this donation.
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