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April 28 g 2011
. Alfred Taubman has become
the University of Michigan's
largest individual donor, with
total giving of more than $142 mil-
lion. His latest gift of $56 million to the
A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research
Institute will bring his support of medi-
cal science at U-M to a total of $100
million.
The latest gift of Taubman's $100 mil-
lion pledge will be added to the endow-
ment that funds the Taubman Institute's
efforts to find better treatments and
cures for a wide variety of human dis-
eases. In recognition of his support,
the U-M Board of Regents approved
re-naming the Biomedical Science
Research Building on the U-M medical
campus in Ann Arbor after Taubman.
"This is one of the most transforma-
tive days in the life of
the university,' said
U-M President Mary
Sue Coleman. "Alfred
Taubman instinctively
sees how this level of
investment can make
huge advances in sci-
A. Alfred
ence and research"
Taubman
Taubman's gift is
added to an endow-
ment whose earnings will fund the
Taubman Institute and the research of
scientists named as Taubman Scholars
within the institute.
Fighting Cancer And ALS
Through Taubman Institute support,
five human clinical trials have been
launched targeting cancer and ALS. The
Taubman Institute is also home to the
only laboratory producing embryonic
stem cell lines in Michigan. In late
March, its scientists announced the cre-
ation of its first two embryonic stem cell
lines carrying the genes responsible for
inherited diseases.
Ora Hirsch Pescovitz, M.D., U-M's
executive vice president for medical
affairs and chief executive officer of U-M
Health System, praised Taubman for his
vision in supporting research that will
change the face of biomedical science.
Fifteen U-M scientists already are
being supported through the Taubman
Institute. One of those scientists is
the institute's director, Eva Feldman,
M.D., Ph.D., who is leading a human
clinical trial of a stem cell therapy for
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). She
also is working to adapt that stem cell
therapy to treat Alzheimer's disease.
"Scientists like Eva need to be able to
follow their scientific instincts, and I'm
glad to be able to provide them with
funds that give them that opportunity,"
Taubman told U-M's regents last week.
Feldman said the unrestricted fund-
ing that Taubman provides scientists is
priceless and gives them true freedom
to follow innovative approaches to
developing treatments for disease.
"What we've been able to achieve
because of Mr. Taubman's belief and
support is remarkable,' Feldman said.
Taubman, of Bloomfield Hills, is the
founder of shopping center developer
Taubman Centers. l_1
Taubman U-M Gifts
With his newest gift to support
research at the U-M Medical
School, A. Alfred Taubman has
become the largest individual donor
to the University of Michigan.
His major gifts include:
•$56 million announced last
week as the latest portion of a
$100 million pledge to the A.
Alfred Taubman Medical Research
Institute at the U-M Medical School.
•$22 million given in 2008, also
for the Taubman Institute
• $22 million given in 2007,
to initially endow the Taubman
Institute and support research.
•$30 million for the College of
Architecture and Urban Planning,
given in 1999, to create an endow-
ment that supports student schol-
arships and faculty appointments.
The college was named in his honor
in 1999.
•$4 million, committed in 2006,
to the U-M Museum of Art, toward
the museum's $35.4 million facility
expansion and restoration project.
The museum's space for tempo-
rary exhibits is called the Taubman
Galleries.
•$3 million, given in the early
1980s, toward the building of
University Hospital and the A.
Alfred Taubman Health Care Center,
which is a four-story facility for
general and specialty outpatient
care services.
His other gifts to the University
have supported the Taubman
Medical Library, the A. Alfred
Taubman Scholarship in the Office
of Financial Aid, and the Taubman
Program in American Institutions in
the College of Literature, Science
and the Arts.