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Phil and Penny Knight gave OHSU $100 million in 2008, a $500 million challenge in 2013 that Oregon met within two years, and $2 billion in 2025, described by OHSU as the largest gift to a US university.
Phil Knight, co-founder of Nike, and his wife Penny have made the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University one of the best-funded cancer centres in the world. OHSU's history records a $100 million gift in 2008, after which the institute took the Knights' name; a $500 million challenge grant in 2013 that required OHSU to raise a matching $500 million; and, in 2015, the meeting of the $1 billion Knight Cancer Challenge with the help of a $100 million gift from Gert Boyle and $200 million in bonds from the Oregon Legislature. In 2025 the Knights gave a further $2 billion, described by OHSU as the largest gift to a US university in history, to fund Brian Druker's vision of transforming cancer care. Druker, the institute's director, led the clinical development of imatinib, the first targeted cancer drug; the Knight money built the Knight Cancer Research Building and a programme aimed at detecting lethal cancers early.
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Shares Funding follows fashion, not burden and the tags hero, donor.
Shares Funding follows fashion, not burden and the tags hero, donor.
Shares Funding follows fashion, not burden and the tags hero, donor.
Shares Funding follows fashion, not burden and the tags hero, donor.
Shares Funding follows fashion, not burden and the tags hero, donor.
Shares Funding follows fashion, not burden and the tags hero, donor.
Shares Funding follows fashion, not burden and the tags hero, donor.