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July 12, 2005
Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation
Pledges $450,000 to Robert Packard Center for ALS Research
The board of the Emily
Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation in New York—a philanthropic
organization supporting programs in medical research, palliative care
and education—has pledged $450,000 in support, over the next three
years, for the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns Hopkins.
The contribution will underwrite the cost of the Center’s monthly
investigators’ meetings and annual scientific symposium for the
next three years.
Christopher Angell, president of the foundation, says the donation is
critical to advance the science of ALS: “In just five years, the
Packard Center has become the undisputed leader in ALS research, and its
scientists have improved understanding of the disease. We’ll conquer
ALS one day, not by avoiding the best or most vigorous science, but by
organizing and harnessing it.”
Last February, the Kornfeld Foundation fulfilled its initial five-year
pledge of $4 million that helped establish the Center at Johns Hopkins.
Angell, who is also the Packard Center board’s vice chair, lives
in New York with his wife, Jean. She was diagnosed with ALS in 1999.
Packard Center Director Jeffrey Rothstein says the pledge will bolster
the work of its more than 30 scientists at Hopkins, other universities
and biotech companies worldwide. “The Kornfeld Foundation not only
made the Center a reality, but continues to sustain its mission. We’re
most grateful,” he says.
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