Barry
Diller, Chairman and CEO of IAC, presented architect Frank
Gehry with
The New York Stem Cell Foundation Humanitarian Award at Breaking Ground:
NYSCF’s Fourth Annual Dinner Celebration, Tuesday, October 13,
2009 at The Rockefeller University in New York City. Over 300 people
attended the event to benefit NYSCF’s goal of accelerating the
most advanced stem cell research.
NYSCF Board Member Dr. Zach W. Hall presented
The New York Stem Cell Foundation Leadership Award to Joel S. Marcus, Chairman and CEO of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.
The award honors individuals in public life who have resolutely and
courageously supported stem cell research; Dr. Hall noted that Alexandria
Real Estate Equities, Inc. has become the nation’s most prominent
developer of real estate for the life sciences.
Mr. Gehry received
The New York Stem Cell Foundation Humanitarian Award, created to honor
people, including non-scientists, who have resolutely and courageously
supported stem cell research during a time of exceptional challenge
for advanced scientific research in the United States. As an architect,
Mr. Gehry has always worked at the cutting edge of science and technology,
and for more than four decades has been actively involved in the work
of the Hereditary Disease Foundation, which supports critical research
in the life sciences. Most recently, he worked with the foundation
to create the Leslie Gehry Brenner Award for Innovation in Science
to honor the memory of his daughter, who died in 2008 of uterine cancer.
NYSCF saluted Mr. Gehry for his lifetime of support for advanced scientific
research.
The program also featured remarks by NYSCF Board Member John
L. Eastman, a partner in Eastman & Eastman, and NYSCF
Board Chairman
Roy Geronemus, MD. Attendees included dinner co-chairs Chuck
Close, Fiona and Stan Druckenmiller, Dorothy
Lichtenstein, and Martha Stewart.
Also attending were Henry Buhl; Karen
E. Burke, MD, PhD; Russ and Judy Carson; Lewis B.
Cullman; Elizabeth Kabler; Evie Lipper, MD and Bill
Speck, MD; Richard D. Kaplan and Edwina Sandys; Richard
Meier; Alice Rogoff; Shirley Lord Rosenthal; and Ambassador
Carl Spielvogel and Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel.
Honorary
co-chairs included Senator Charles E. Schumer; Senator Kirsten
E. Gillibrand; Senator Arlen Specter; Representative Michael N. Castle;
Representative Charles B. Rangel; Congressman Jerrold Nadler; and New
York State Senator Thomas K. Duane.
Dinner committee members included Maryam and Jonathan
Dickey; Jodie and John Eastman; Eileen and Richard
Ekstract; Gail and Roy
Geronemus, MD; Paul Healy; Debbie and Peter Kahn;
Lynn Mackler; Carol Roaman; Lisa and Michael Schultz; Susan L. Solomon
and Paul Goldberger; and Susan Towers.
The event took place in conjunction with NYSCF’s
Fourth Annual Translational Stem Cell Research Conference on October
13 and 14, 2009, which is devoted to demonstrating the potential of
stem cell research to advance cures for the major diseases of our time.
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