The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia announced that Ronald Caplan, founder and president of PMC Property Group, and his wife Ellen have donated $10 million to Wistar’s National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center, which will be renamed the Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute.
The largest gift ever pledged to Wistar, the nation’s first independent biomedical research organization, it will foster Wistar’s scientists in their discoveries toward promising cancer therapies. The investment will also further Philadelphia’s growing recognition as a life science innovation hub. Read more.
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