FORWARD
MOMENTUM
$3.5 million grant funds innovative cancer research
and expands the pediatric treatment center at the new
Children’s Hospital at Scott & White
In a gesture that is as promising as it is generous,
an anonymous donor has provided the means to
advance the future of cancer treatment at Scott &
White Healthcare. The donor's bigheartedness,
inspired by the impressive work of the Scott & White
Cancer Research Institute and the new Children’s
Hospital at Scott & White that will open this fall, is
matched by the dedication of caregivers to ease the
suffering of patients and families affected by cancer.
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T
he gift of $3.5 million is a follow-up to the
original $2 million gift that helped create
Dr. Art Frankel’s Good Manufacturing
Practices (GMP) labs at the Scott & White Cancer
Research Institute. The two recent gifts create a
unique research system that can move proposed
therapies from the scientific bench to the bedside of
patients more quickly. The current gifts are directed
toward two priorities to help achieve this goal:
advancing basic research to the clinical-trial stage
and helping even more patients at the Children’s
Hospital at Scott & White by doubling the size of
the cancer treatment area.
“Due to philanthropy, all the necessary pieces of
the puzzle are in place to make this happen at Scott
& White,” says Alfred B. Knight, MD, president of