DESIGNS IN DECORATOR WOOD & LAMINATES, LTD. metro It Doesn't Have To Co.st fortune„.Only Look Like it! Science Grant Taubman increases support to U-M to $142 million. . ' • A • , • ... = t 02, 49 • • 1. Complete kitchen and bathroom remodeling as well as furniture and installations including granite, wood and other materials. Lois Haron Allied Member ASID 248.851.6989 Turn your old GOLD into CASH! We will buy ALL of your precious metals, diamonds & watches. 32940 Middlebelt Rd. Office Suites For Lease Downtown Royal Oak r Oa lb • 41 - iim--"• Full service office space available for attorneys and other professionals. Offices are10'6" x 12' up to 151 10" x 11'9" with additional space in common area offices for clerical staff. Many amenities available. For more info and amenity details, visit: www.tinyurl.com/spaceforlease Call: 248'399'9700 Email: 415SWestStLLC©gmail.com 1 6 6 7 3 7 0 8 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.