Volume 4, Number 19 - June 15, 2009

In this issue:   

• Three cancer programs chosen for strategic growth and integration
• Famed tenor Andrea Bocelli performs at special dedication ceremony for donated papal statue
• Wang chosen to lead Division of Transfusion Medicine
• Survey participation reaches new record
• Rose Hills Foundation helps summer students bloom
• Get happy feet — for less
• Positive Image Center offers caring, accoutrements from new digs

Digging in for Diabetes

City of Hope recently broke ground on an expansion to the Leslie & Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Diabetes & Genetic Research Center. The new construction project will double space for investigations into diabetes and other serious metabolic diseases. A leadership gift from the Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Foundation launched the expansion.

(Top) Leslie Gonda, at right, shares a smile with Arthur Riggs, Ph.D., left, and Fouad R. Kandeel, M.D., Ph.D., before the June 2 event. Riggs is chair of the Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases Research and director emeritus of Beckman Research Institute; Kandeel chairs the Department of Clinical Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism in the medical center and is director of Beckman Research Institute’s Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism.

(Left) Michael A. Friedman, M.D., president and chief executive officer, joins Riggs, Gonda and Kandeel to unearth the first spadefuls of dirt where the buildingexpansion will stand. (Photo by Amy Cantrell)