Mayo Clinic has been given a $48.98 million gift from the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation to establish a center devoted to finding and implementing new treatments for cancer.

Although the center will be located at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, the funds will also support infrastructure and programs of the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, one branch of which is located in Scottsdale. There, the funding will complement activities in the areas of biomedical informatics and exploration of the signaling pathways in cancer cells.

"We are extremely grateful for this generous gift," said Dr. Laurence J. Miller, deputy director of Mayo Clinic Cancer Center's Scottsdale site. "This funding will provide enormous support for clinicians and researchers working together across the Mayo system to improve and develop new therapies for our cancer patients."

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For more information:

"Mayo Clinic receives gift for cancer care and research," Mayo Press Release, 12/08/2005