A $200-million gift from the founder of the database company Oracle to the University of Southern California will be used to set up an institute for research on treating and preventing cancer.
The university said the center—funded with a donation from Larry Ellison, who is listed by Forbes as the US’s third richest man—will include interdisciplinary research laboratories, a think tank and a community center.
David Agus, a professor of medicine and engineering at the university, has been named as its director.
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