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Phil Knight donates $100 million to OHSU
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PORTLAND, Ore. - Nike Inc. founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny, are donating $100 million to Oregon Health & Science University's Cancer Center.
The Knights and OHSU announced the private donation, the largest in OHSU's history, on Wednesday. OHSU will rename the state's only National Cancer Institute the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute.
The first $2 million of the gift will be used toward a newly named Linda Conant Laboratory Suite, named after a friend of the Knight family who died of breast cancer in January. The remaining $98 million will be used at the discretion of the institute's director, cancer researcher Dr. Brian Druker.
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