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The Spark Discovery, Illuminate Life campaign has raised $456 million and is quickly approaching its goal of $550 million. These gifts have supported research in almost every facet of human disease, helped to recruit world-renowned scientific leaders to the University, and sponsored future scientists and physicians by funding graduate and medical education.

This spring the Discovery and Impact dinner series brought talented University of Chicago physicians and scientists to downtown Chicago to let business and civic leaders, friends and philanthropists know what distinguishes the Biological Sciences Division and Hospitals.

More than 300 guests learned how Chicago investigators are breaking new ground. The programs also provided an opportunity to showcase new facilities that will transform Chicago's campus, strengthen the University's research mission, and help provide innovative, optimal patient care. These include:

  • the Comer Children's Hospital, which opened in February 2005, and the Comer Emergency Department, now under construction, both with the philanthropic leadership of Frances and Gary Comer;

  • the Center for Integrative Science, which will open in fall 2005 and will join together investigators and students from the Biological Sciences Division and Physical Sciences Division;

  • the Center for Biomedical Discovery, set to open in early 2008, which will provide state-of-the-art laboratories for cancer, pediatrics, and medicine. The CBD will be physically connected to the Biological Sciences Learning Center and the Center for Integrative Science; and

  • the anticipated new Hospital Pavilion, set to open in 2010, which will increase patient beds by 100 and enable the University of Chicago Hospitals to meet the demands of rapid advances in biomedical technology, particularly in advanced procedures, imaging, intensive/monitored care, and clinical information

    • For more information about philanthropy and fundraising for science and medicine at Chicago, please visit http://sparkdiscovery.uchicago.edu or contact Michele Schiele, Vice President and Associate Dean for Development at 773-702-4767 or at mschiele@mcdmail.uchicago.edu.

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