INDIANAPOLIS - A thirty million dollar donation to the IU School of Medicine will fund a new center devoted to making breakthroughs in the field of immunotherapy. Indiana Public Broadcasting’s Jill Sheridan reports on the gift from a Hoosier entrepreneur that could help Indiana remain a leader in biomedicine.
The Brown Center for Immunotherapy at the IU School of Medicine aims to discover new ways to deploy immune-based therapies to treat cancers and other diseases. The center is named after Indianapolis software entrepreneur Donald Brown who says he thought about starting this effort somewhere else but in the end, Indiana was the clear choice.
Don3 :15 ….things done
It’s just unbelievable the resources we have and I think we’ve proven time and again that we can all pull together and actually cooperate to get things done.
The thirty million will be used to help recruit five endowed faculty chairs, build infrastructure and technologies.
Immunotherapy basically uses the power of the body’s immune system to fight disease and THAT, says IU School of Medicine Dean Jay Hess, is pretty exciting.
Jay3 :11 ..medicine
It is clearly the most important development the most promising development I’ve seen in my career if not in the entire history or medicine.
The center will initially focus on multiple myeloma and hopes to start its first clinical trial within a year. SOC
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IU School of Medicine Dean Jay Hess their work will start right away.
Jay2 :10
Don wants us to hit the ground running to partner with industry and deliver results for patients and that’s exactly what we’re going to do.
Entrepreneur Don Brown believes the investment can make a real impact.
Don4 :19 …lives
I’m an engineer and an entrepreneur and I want to do things and I’m convinced we can do great things. We can make difference in people’s lives as we’ve seen here, we can create cures, we can advance the state of the art in very tangible ways.
