University Hospitals Receives $1.75 Million for Childhood Cancer University Hospitals of Cleveland (UHC) announced two philanthropic gifts today to advance childhood cancer programs. Karen and Larry Vassil of Richfield, Ohio, pledged $1 million to meet and exceed a $750,000 challenge grant from The Skirball Foundation of New York. The Vassils’ gift is in honor of their daughter, Hilary, a cancer survivor. The combined gifts will fund the Jack H. and William N. Skirball Fellowship in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital and the Ireland Cancer Center of UHC.
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UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital Receives $1.5 million for Adolescent & Young Adult Cancer
Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, in partnership with Ireland Cancer Center, at University Hospitals Case Medical Center is starting off the new year with a special focus on teen and young adult cancer thanks to a $1.5 million gift from Char and Chuck Fowler in memory of their daughter, Angie, whom they lost to melanoma when she was 14, 25 years ago.
The gift funds the first endowed chair in the United States for adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer, and the Angie Fowler Adolescent and Young Adult Treatment Suite in the new cancer outpatient space being built at Rainbow.
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