New Mayo Clinic cancer research center to open in the summer of 2007
The Schulze Center for Novel Therapeutics, funded by a $49 million gift from the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation, is slated to open by early summer 2007. Sandra Schulze, the first wife of Best Buy founder Richard Schulze, died of the asbestos cancer mesothelioma in 2001. The new research center’s mission is translate laboratory findings into new methods of treating cancer. Researchers with specialties in molecular pharmacology, experimental therapeutics, medical oncology, and pharmacogenomics will work in the new facility. The gift will also fund two professorships–the Sandra J. Schulze Professor and the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation Professor.
For more information about the new center, see the full article at www.postbulletin.com.
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