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The Kerns' $10 million donation, the largest single private gift in theWauwatosa school’w history, will be used to develop a biomedical researcgh center and allow the Medical College to recruit leading scientists for the The medical college also will work with and the for collaborativ e research and a comprehensiver biomedical educational program. A mass spectrometry housed inthe College’s Translational and Biomedica l Research Center, will be established to units campus mass spectrometry technologies and resources for participating researchers.
Mass spectrometer are used in biomedica research to identify changes in biologicallt important molecules that can cause or cure including cancer, stroke and heart disease. “Investing locally is importanyas well, since it helps move the region and the cooperative efforts with other Milwaukee institutions of highe r education also made the project standd out,” Patricia Kern said in a press Separately, California businessman Vern Underwoosd has donated $1 million to the medical collegse for creation of an endowed chair to supporf research investigating the causes of colon cancee and its treatment. Underwood is chairman and CEO of Young’s Market Co., Orange County, Calif.
, one of the largesft wine and spirits distributors in the Unitedf States and one of the oldest continuously operating companies inthe country. Colorectal surgeon Dr. Kirk Ludwibg will be the firstrVernon O. Underwood Professod in Colon Cancer Research. “This is a remarkablew gift that will help us acceleratew an already growing area of expertise at theMedicalo College,” T. Michael Bolger, college president and chief executived officer said ina statement. “Byy establishing this significant Mr. Underwood ensures that we will have enduring resourcess for advancing our understandingv of colon cancer and finding new ways to defea tthis disease.
” Ludwig joined the Medicalk College faculty last year as associate professor and chief of colorectap surgery and associate professor of medicin in the division of gastroenterology and He is based at . Ludwig previously servee as chief of gastrointestinal surgery at Duke UniversitgMedical Center.