{"entity":{"id":"robert-woodruff","kind":"person","name":"Robert W. Woodruff","aka":[],"tldr":"After his mother Emily Winship Woodruff died of cancer in 1937, he gave Emory University the gift that founded the Winship Clinic; his foundation's $400 million gift in 2018 is building Winship's new Midtown Atlanta home.","summary":"Robert W. Woodruff (1889-1985) led The Coca-Cola Company for more than three decades and became Atlanta's dominant philanthropist. Winship Cancer Institute's history records that in 1937 the Robert Winship Memorial Clinic was founded at Emory University with a gift from Woodruff after his mother, Emily Winship Woodruff, died of cancer that year; the clinic was named for his maternal grandfather. It was one of the first cancer clinics in the American South and grew into Winship Cancer Institute, Georgia's only NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centre. The Robert W. Woodruff Foundation continues the work: Winship records its 2018 gift of $400 million to Emory University, part of it to build a new Winship facility in Midtown Atlanta.","asOf":"2026-09-10","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Woodruff","links":[{"label":"Winship Cancer Institute: history","url":"https://winshipcancer.emory.edu/about-us/history.php"}],"tags":["hero","donor"],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["emory-winship"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":["b-funding-allocation","b-global-access"],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"role":"Coca-Cola president whose 1937 gift founded Emory's Winship Cancer Institute in memory of his mother","specialisms":["Cancer centre founding","Southern US cancer care"],"profiles":[],"papers":[]},"route":"/people/robert-woodruff/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"emory-winship","kind":"institution","name":"Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University","route":"/institutions/emory-winship/"}],"bottleneck":[{"id":"b-funding-allocation","kind":"bottleneck","name":"Funding follows fashion, not burden","route":"/bottlenecks/b-funding-allocation/"},{"id":"b-global-access","kind":"bottleneck","name":"Most of the world has almost no cancer care","route":"/bottlenecks/b-global-access/"}]}}