“ This is an opportunity of a generation ,” says Feldman . “ Our vision is to disrupt the current state of Alzheimer ’ s disease treatment development by innovating new therapeutic approaches and smart clinical trial designs that accelerate progress in collaboration with others .”
( Pictured left to right ): Dr . Robert N . Weinreb , director , Shiley Eye Institute ; Darlene Shiley ; Patty Maysent , CEO , UC San Diego Health ; Chancellor Pradeep K . Khosla
Dr . Howard Feldman , director of the Alzheimer ' s Disease Cooperative Study
Andrew Viterbi
Focus on Eye Health
Several generous donors came together to fight eye disease and blindness and to support ocular wellness .
Andrew J . Viterbi gave $ 50 million to name the Viterbi Family Department of Ophthalmology and the Viterbi Family Vision Research Center . The gift also created six new endowed faculty chairs which provide additional support for research and help to retain and recruit top medical minds to UC San Diego .
The Nixon Visions Foundation , led by UC San Diego alumnus Brandon Nixon ’ 85 , and his wife , Janine , established the Nixon Visions Foundation Macular Dystrophy-PRPH2 Research Fund to treat macular dystrophy , a rare but devastating condition for which there is no cure .
And continuing her decades-long legacy of support for eye health , Darlene Shiley gave $ 10 million for the clinical space expansion of the Shiley Eye Institute at UC San Diego Health . The gift will finance the expansion of the clinical space and function of the Institute .
Daniel and Phyllis Epstein
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