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• The Greehey Academic and Research Campus (previously known as the North Campus) and the Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute will be permanently identified with The Greehey Family, one of the greatest names in business and philanthropy in the United States.
  
  
• The Greehey President’s Endowment for Excellence in Children’s Health Sciences will enhance scholarships for deserving students and fellows in perpetuity, with an emphasis on research of children’s cancer and health. This transformational gift will provide Texas, the nation and the world with new leaders in oncology and related disciplines who will make new discoveries that will save children’s lives across the globe.
  
  
• The Greehey President’s Endowment will create distinguished chairs to help us recruit and retain the best clinician-scientists in the world. The holders of these distinguished chairs will be leaders in fields such as pediatric oncology, hematologic malignancies and cancer genetics. The Endowment will set the stage for Nobel Laureate scientific discovery in San Antonio for children’s cancer and health.
  
  
• The Greehey President’s Endowment will expand community initiatives focused on cancer survivorship and palliative care, and create a Family Support Fund for children with complex chronic conditions.
  
  
• This gift will also support construction of additional laboratory space within the South Texas Research Facility, which will be connected to the Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute. These state-of-the-art labs will focus on individualized molecular and immune therapies for improved treatment of children and young adults with cancer. The labs will enhance the full spectrum of cancer research being conducted through the San Antonio Cancer Institute and its clinical and research partners, including the military.
  
  
• The Greehey President’s Endowment will enable us to build upon, in a very substantial way, the founding endowment approved by the Legislature to create the Children’s Cancer Research Institute as a result of the state tobacco settlement.
  
  
• A gift of this magnitude affirms the excellence of our university and will be a catalyst for further giving, as well as for successful recruitment and retention of talented faculty. Strong philanthropy is required to enhance a great university. Philanthropy will also be an important part of making San Antonio an even greater city.
  
  
• This gift will result in research-proven, precise and more-personalized prevention of, and cures for, cancer in children and young adults, with a reduction or elimination of side effects of current cancer treatments.
  
  
• Francisco G. Cigarroa, M.D., president of the Health Science Center, states the vision this way: “We are committed to making the Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute our nation’s premier children’s cancer research facility that will benefit the world. Our goal is to create a future in which the words ‘children’ and ‘cancer’ are never used in the same sentence.”