South Dakota banking tycoon Denny Sanford donated $ 50 million more to the Medical Research Institute Burnham in San Diego, California, to be renamed Sanford- Burnham Institute in honor of the gift.
in the last three years, Sanford has emerged as one of the top philanthropists in the nation for medical research. In addition to $ 20 million, he donated to Burnham in 07 and $ 30 million to finance the work on stem cells in a separate institute in San Diego in 08, Sanford gave $ 400 million to the Sioux Valley Hospital (now Sanford Health) in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in 07. with the money, Sanford Health Sanford finance the project, the objectives are, first, the cure type 1 diabetes in the life of Denny Sanford and in the long term, to build Sioux Falls into a national center clinical trials.
The Burnham Institute is basic research on diabetes, and officials in South Dakota Burnham hoped would funnel promising results in test animals and humans. The additional gift of $ 50 million could help cement ties between institutes and South Dakota California.
(The Sanford Project and Denny Sanford gifts to the Burnham Institute are subject of a profile in Friday's issue Science .)
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