$5 million gift establishes cancer drug discovery center at USC
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A $5 million gift from Rosalie and Harold Rae Brown Charitable Foundation will fund a new venture within USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center designed to accelerate development of groundbreaking cancer treatments.
The gift will help create and support the Rosalie and Harold Rae Brown Center for Cancer Drug Discovery.
“The importance of conducting research to develop more effective and less toxic cancer therapies cannot be overestimated,” Caryn Lerman, PhD, director of USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and associate dean for cancer programs at Keck School of Medicine of USC, said in a press release. “This gift will enable us to leverage the talent of USC Norris scientists and dedicated clinicians and ensure that our groundbreaking discoveries move not from bench to bookshelf, but from bench to bedside, transforming cancer care and survivorship for all people.”
The gift will support the development of new clinical trials that build on discoveries at USC Norris about the underlying causes of cancer and disease progression.
Initial projects will focus heavily on malignancies that disproportionately affect members of the community for whom there are considerable racial and ethnic disparities, such as prostate cancer, breast cancer and colorectal cancer.
Harold R. Brown — trustee of Rosalie and Harold Rae Brown Charitable Foundation and a 1959 USC graduate — announced the gift. The center will be named after his parents.
“I have been fortunate to do well in business, and now through my efforts as trustee of the Rosalie and Harold Rae Brown Charitable Foundation, want to give back to a cause that is not only personally important to me, but addresses a great need in society — finding a cure for cancer,” Brown said in the release. “Honoring my parents and creating the Rosalie and Harold Rae Brown Center for Cancer Drug Discovery at USC Norris is a rewarding and fitting legacy.”
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