Benefactor gives $1 million more
Published: Tue, Feb. 19, 2008 12:30AM
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closeCHAPEL HILL -- After his recent $9 million gift to the School of Pharmacy at UNC-Chapel Hill, Fred Eshelman has contributed $1 million to support the school's Educational Renaissance initiatives. The gift attracted $1 million in matching funds from the Pharmacy Network Foundation.
Eshelman is chief operating officer and founder of Wilmington-based PPD Inc., a global contract research organization providing discovery, development and post-approval services to the biopharmaceutical industry.
The Educational Renaissance is the School of Pharmacy's plan to address the needs of the next generation of students, who are expected to learn very differently from the students of the past, said Bob Blouin, dean of the School of Pharmacy.
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