$2.3B in cancer center gifts

From establishing new children’s hospitals and research collaboratives to clinical trial expansion, here are five ways U.S. cancer centers and health systems are putting more than $2.3 billion in recent financial gifts to use:

1. University Hospitals’ Seidman Cancer Center received a $3.5 million gift from Kathy Coleman to support tripling the system’s capacity for clinical trials within the next five years. Ms. Coleman has donated more than $14 million to the Cleveland-based health system in honor of her late husband, Lester Coleman Jr., who died after battling an aggressive form of lung cancer.
   
   
2. Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health received a $30 million gift to establish the Jean and E. Floyd Kvamme Advanced Cancer Center in Santa Cruz, Calif. The center is expected to open in 2030.
   
   
3. The Knight Cancer Institute at Portland-based Oregon Health & Science University received a $2 billion gift from Phil and Penny Knight. The gift will be used to establish a new cancer care delivery model, enabling the institute to accelerate how quickly and effectively its cancer research discoveries are integrated into clinical care.
   
   Co-founder of Nike, Mr. Knight and his wife previously gave the institute $500 million as part of the Knight Cancer Challenge, which ended up raising $1 billion for the institute in 2015.
   
   
4. The Weill Family Foundation has helped establish two cancer research collaboratives — the Weill Cancer Hub East and the Weill Cancer Hub West — through grants totalling $125 million.
   
   The Weill Cancer Hub East connects Weill Cornell Medicine, Princeton (N.J.) University, New York City-based Rockefeller University and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, also in New York City.
   
   The Weill Cancer Hub West connects San Francisco-based UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Stanford (Calif.) Cancer Institute.
   
   
5. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Texas Children’s Hospital, both based in Houston, received a $150 million gift from the Kinder Foundation to establish the Kinder Children’s Cancer Center — poised to become the nation’s largest pediatric cancer center.