Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie is donating $1 million to kick off a coronavirus research fund at a medical school in the city.
The money will establish a new COVID-19 Immunology Defense Fund atTop priorities to research are a coronavirus test that can deliver rapid results, drugs to treat the virus and a potential vaccine, the school said.
“We are in the midst of a humanitarian crisis that is affecting all of us in so many ways,” Lurie said in the announcement. “When we band together, our defense gets stronger.”“I am personally grateful to an exceptional civic leader and a great friend, Jeffrey Lurie, for giving us the tools to fight back against this pandemic in a way that may not only benefit our city and country but also the world,” University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann said.
Penn Medicine describes itself as one of the world’s leading academic medical centers and traces its roots back to 1765 as the first American medical school, “armed with the largest single-institution immunology community in the country," it says.
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