The three families making these gifts each have a longstanding relationship with the University of Chicago and their names are familiar to faculty, patients, and visitors to the Division and the Hospitals.

Frances and Gary Comer's gift of $42 million makes possible the Comer Center for Children and Specialty Care, which will be located above the Comer Pediatric Emergency Department and will double the operating room and procedural capacity of Comer Children's Hospital. This gift is the largest single contribution ever made to the University or the Hospitals, and brings the Comers' total support for pediatric medicine to more than $84 million. This record-breaking news was announced at a press conference on January 25, and covered in a number of major U.S. news outlets including the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, Crain's Chicago Business, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and Forbes.

The Duchossois family's campaign commitment of $10 million builds on their earlier support for the Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine, as well as their contributions to cancer research over the past three decades. Their current gift is significant not only in that it is a continuation of their rich philanthropic history at the University, but also because it demonstrates the family's commitment to the future of medicine. The gift will support metastasis research, as well as radiology and genetics, and will name a cancer research laboratory in the Jules and Gwen Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery.

Gwen and Jules Knapp's gift of $25 million, announced in the Wall Street Journal on February 10, 2006, will name the Jules and Gwen Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery. Currently under construction, this will be the tallest building on campus when completed in 2008. The new Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery will house the Institute for Molecular Pediatric Science, the University of Chicago Cancer Research Center, the Ludwig Center for Metastasis Research, and the Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology.

For more information about these gifts, or about philanthropy and fundraising for science and medicine at Chicago, please check out 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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