Volume 4, Number 8 - March 9, 2009

In this issue:

• Newly formed office boosts grant application support for campus researchers
• City of Hope creates department that focuses on the clinical side of diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism
• Professional services vice president named
• New program rewards outstanding effort
• Nurse’s story of connection with cancer patient earns high honors
• Neurosurgery expert joins City of Hope

Top that!
Representatives from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation joined City of Hope board members, administrators, faculty and staff as well as construction workers for a topping-off ceremony for the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for Cancer Immunotherapeutics and Tumor Immunology. The Feb. 26 event marked completion of the building’s framework.

(Top) Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation directors Jerry Gallwas, right, and Patricia Beckman, who is the daughter of the late Arnold and Mabel Beckman, autograph the ceremonial final beam.

(Left) Signatures adorn the final beam as it awaits placement atop the building. (Photos by Thomas Brown/p.cunningham)