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Gordon Gund
$50 Million
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Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Foundation
$50 Million Devoted to cancer research and treatment, the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Foundation pledged $50 million to the New York University Langone Medical Center. The NYU Cancer Institute will be renamed the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center. Isaac Perlmutter is chairman and former chief executive of Marvel Entertainment. The couple belongs to Langone’s Board of Trustees and has previously donated approximately $8 million to Langone.
Gordon Gund donated an estimated $50 million to the Foundation Fighting Blindness in Columbia, Maryland, matching gifts made to the organization to support research into new methods for treating degenerative diseases of the retina and restoring vision to those who are blind. Gordon Gund is the chief executive of Gund Investment Corporation and is chairman and co-founder of the Foundation Fighting Blindness. He lost his vision at the age of 30 in 1970. www.blindness.org
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