Feinberg
Northwestern Medicine | Northwestern University | Faculty Profiles

News Center

  • Categories
    • Campus News
    • Disease Discoveries
    • Clinical Breakthroughs
    • Education News
    • Scientific Advances
  • Press Releases
  • Media Coverage
  • Podcasts
  • Editor’s Picks
    • COVID-19
    • Cardiology
    • Cancer
    • Neurology and Neuroscience
    • Aging and Longevity
    • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
  • News Archives
  • About Us
    • Media Contact
    • Share Your News
    • News Feeds
    • Social Media
    • Contact Us
Menu
  • Categories
    • Campus News
    • Disease Discoveries
    • Clinical Breakthroughs
    • Education News
    • Scientific Advances
  • Press Releases
  • Media Coverage
  • Podcasts
  • Editor’s Picks
    • COVID-19
    • Cardiology
    • Cancer
    • Neurology and Neuroscience
    • Aging and Longevity
    • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
  • News Archives
  • About Us
    • Media Contact
    • Share Your News
    • News Feeds
    • Social Media
    • Contact Us
Home » Northwestern Receives $10 Million Gift for Life Sciences Graduates
Uncategorized

Northwestern Receives $10 Million Gift for Life Sciences Graduates

By medwebDec 14, 2011
Share
Facebook Twitter Email

Feinberg medical studentsNorthwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has received a $10 million gift from the Walter S. and Lucienne Driskill Foundation to endow and name the Walter S. and Lucienne Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences.

The gift will support graduate student training in the life sciences at Feinberg with particular, but not exclusive, emphasis on recruiting superb and highly competitive candidates for the medical scientist training program leading to a dual MD-PhD degree pursuing training in basic or clinical research.

“This generous gift from the Driskill Foundation will have a deep impact on the pace of scientific discovery at Feinberg,” said Eric Neilson, MD, vice president for medical affairs and Lewis Landsberg Dean at Feinberg. “Doctoral candidates are among the medical school’s most promising investigators, and with our life sciences faculty, have made tremendous strides in understanding fundamental causes of disease. This gift will help ensure our graduate students have one of the most enriching and productive training experiences in the country.”

“It is apparent the vital medical advances in diagnosis, treatment and cure will require new generations of highly trained and motivated researchers,” said Ronald Barnard, executive director of the Driskill Foundation. “The work of continuing important research falls on new entrants to the field of basic research and the translation of that work to clinical applications. The Driskill Foundation believes it can contribute to the training of those coming up through the ranks, so we are delighted to have the opportunity to help Feinberg provide this essential training.”

Driskill Scholars will train with graduate program faculty in a wide range of areas across the University, including cancer biology, cell biology, chemical biology, drug discovery, developmental biology, evolutionary biology, genetics, genomics, medicine biology, immunology, microbial pathogenesis, neurobiology, pharmacology, structural biology, biochemistry, behavioral sciences, preventive medicine, epidemiology, health outcomes, quality improvement, and translational sciences.

Walter Driskill and his wife, Lucienne, established the Driskill Foundation. The Great Depression made a deep impression on Walter Driskill, who, as a teenager, sometimes went barefoot because his family couldn’t afford to buy him shoes. This and other challenging experiences drove him to excel in all aspects of his life—as a college football player, a World War II Navy war hero, and an entrepreneur in the beer importing business.

Grateful for their success, Driskill and his wife created the Walter S. and Lucienne Driskill Foundation in 1986 to advance medical research as well as develop programs for abused and orphaned children. Driskill died of cancer in 1998 and Lucienne Driskill passed away in 2009, and the board of directors makes sure the good works of the foundation continue around the country and at Feinberg. In 2010, the division of hematology/oncology at Feinberg received a $5 million commitment from the foundation for the establishment of the Walter S. and Lucienne Driskill Immunotherapy Research Program and Fellowship Fund. The division of rheumatology also received a $975,000 gift to support fellowship training.

Education
Share. Facebook Twitter Email

Related Posts

Mar 7, 2023

A Day in the Life: Evan Edwards

Mar 7, 2023

Changes in Medical School Leadership

Jan 26, 2023

2022 Year in Review

Dec 29, 2022

Comments are closed.

Latest News

Sex-Specific Mechanisms for Major Depressive Disorder Identified in Response to Dysregulated Stress Hormones

Mar 23, 2023

Pre-Surgery Immunotherapy May Increase Survival in Advanced Melanoma

Mar 23, 2023

Hormone Therapy Plus Current Treatments Improves Survival in Prostate Cancer

Mar 22, 2023

How ChatGPT Has, and Will Continue to, Transform Scientific Research

Mar 21, 2023

New Directions for HIV Treatment

Mar 21, 2023
  • News Center Home
  • Categories
  • Press Release
  • Media Coverage
  • Editor’s Picks
  • News Archives
  • About Us
Flickr Photos
20230317_NM651
20230317_NM610
20230317_NM569
20230317_NM537
20230317_NM331
20230317_NM323
20230317_NM316
20230317_NM336
20230317_NM626
20230317_NM662
20230317_NM655
20230317_NM642

Northwestern University logo

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

RSS Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flickr YouTube Instagram
Copyright © 2023 Northwestern University
  • Contact Northwestern University
  • Disclaimer
  • Campus Emergency Information
  • Policy Statements

Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.