A new $104 million gift to Virginia Commonwealth University, the largest donation to the school, will be used to further liver research, officials announced Tuesday.
“The very real fact is that the liver has tremendous bearing on human health, and it has not been the focus like it should be,” Michael Rao, the university’s president, said Tuesday during his State of the University address. “This gift will allow us to bring together top teams to deliver clinical care, to ask critical questions that have not been asked, to develop new tools to explore what causes liver disease, how we stop it, how we prevent it and, hopefully, how we reverse it.
As a young doctor, fighting liver disease was a losing battle, Stravitz said. Now, things are different. “We are really in a cusp of tremendous research-oriented advancement in medicine that should allow that persistent high death rate to be brought down,” he said.Arun J. Sanyal, a VCU medical school professor and liver disease specialist, will serve as the institute’s director.
The donation to VCU is also the largest publicly shared gift for liver research in U.S. history, said Mary Kate Brogan, a spokeswoman for the university. The former holder of that title was a $25 million gift from the Karsh Family Foundation to support research and treatment of digestive and liver diseases at Cedars-Sinai, Brogan said.
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