David Koch has offered New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center the largest gift in its history, the
New York Post reported.
Koch, 75, has donated $150 million, which will go toward establishing the David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care, a new outpatient center for treatment, the Post said.
The 23-story facility will be state of the art and will overlook FDR Drive between 73rd and 74th streets in Manhattan. The medical center, in a
statement, described Koch's generosity as a "landmark commitment," and said that the new outpatient facility would "provide the most advanced cancer treatments in a dynamic space designed with the needs of patients firmly in mind."
Koch, who in his own statement said he was "honored to support this work," has served on the hospital's board since 1990. He has, over the years, donated through his charitable foundation $1.2 billion to causes that support "cancer research, medical centers, educational institutions."
"It is my ardent hope now that the new Center for Cancer Care will transform cancer treatment worldwide, with the utmost emphasis on the needs of patients and their families," said Koch said in a statement.
"The novel clinical trials that will take place within its walls, and the other vital services — including interventional radiology, outpatient bone marrow transplants and programs for patients with lung, head and neck, and hematologic cancers — promise to be medically revolutionary and I am honored to support this important work," the statement read.
Cancer research is personal to the Kansas-born Koch, a billionaire industrialist and philanthropist who, along with his brother Charles, has seeded conservative political causes in addition to a vast array of science and medical research gifts.
He is a prostate cancer survivor, his
Koch Family Foundations website notes.
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