Foundation increased its support of Children’s, Duke

The Rory David Deutsch Foundation extended its support of research at both Children’s Memorial Hospital and Duke University. The Foundation had contributed $400,000 of a $1 million grant to innovative research projects being conducted at Children’s Memorial under the direction of Dr. Stewart Goldman. In this, The Foundation’s third of its five-year commitment, it increased its increments of payment to $200,000 per year. At the same time, The Foundation extended its $2 million grant to Duke University to be paid over an additional five years. With a pledge of $200,000 a year, The Foundation will contribute a total of $3 million toward ongoing brain tumor research being conducted at the Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke University.