$100m gift benefits Californian neuroscience center

A philanthropist’s $100-million donation to the University of California, San Francisco, will help fund a research center, hospitals and junior faculty, the university has announced.

Much of businessman Chuck Feeney’s gift will go to the university’s hospital complex and to the Sandler Neurosciences Center. The $1.5 billion medical center opened in February at the university’s Mission Bay campus, which includes a number of medical and bioscience research centers.

The university said the hospital’s location helps foster collaboration between doctors and researchers. “We are bringing together so much more knowledge around precision medicine, around new approaches to providing care. For us, this becomes the place where people will participate in those clinical trials and research and benefit from that creativity,” said Mark Laret, chief executive of the university’s medical center.