转“哈佛大学school of Public health 今日获得校史上单笔最高捐款”

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A $350 million gift pledged to Harvard University’s School of Public Health
is the largest single donation in the university’s long history, officials
said, and will help bolster research in several key areas including global
pandemics.
The donation, to be formally announced Monday, comes from a philanthropic
foundation established by the family of T.H. Chan, a Hong Kong real estate
developer who died in 1986.
In a rarity for Harvard, the school will be renamed the Harvard T.H. Chan
School of Public Health. The only other school within the university to bear
an individual’s name is the Harvard Kennedy School, named for John F.
Kennedy.
‘‘I think he would have been very pleased ... that the school would be
part of his legacy,’’ said Dr. Gerald Chan, describing his father as a
staunch supporter of education who often helped family friends pay for
schooling or study abroad.
‘‘It was very much in keeping with how he lived his life and what he held
to be important,’’ said Chan, who earned his own master’s degree from the
public health school in 1979.
Gerald Chan
陈乐宗博士在香港完成小学及中学教育，之後赴美国升学，先在加州大学洛杉矶分校获
得工程学士及硕士学位，再到哈佛大学深造，获得理科硕士及放射生物学博士学位。其
後，陈博士在哈佛医学院任病理学研究员，长期从事癌症方面的研究工作。陈博士由一
九八七年起，通过彼共同创办的晨兴集团，活跃于北美，亚洲以至欧洲创业投资及私人
资本投资。集团並于1992 年开始投资于中国大陆的高科技丶媒体丶通讯和生命科技项
目.
陈乐宗博士是恒隆有限公司，香港的董事会成员. 陈博士对科研丶学术犹未忘情，在推
动医学发展及其他科技学术研究方面，不遗馀力。陈博士现仍担任中丶英丶美多所生物
技术公司的董事，包括 Stealth Peptides, Advanced Cell Diagnostics, Matrivax,
Vaccine Technologies Inc.和 Oxyrane, 对新药开发贡献良多。他现在亦是北京大学
医学研究所的客座研究员，并且担任洛杉矶加州大学丶哈佛大学，以及上海复旦大学等
多间高等学府的学术顾问和委员会成员。