Tulane School of Medicine receives $10 million from the Marshall family to fight cancer

A combined $10 million gift from the Marshall Heritage Foundation and the Marshall Legacy Foundation will help transform Tulane University’s fight against cancer by creating a faculty chair, a dedicated research fund, and state-of-the-art laboratories at the School of Medicine.

The gift, prompted by Board of Tulane member and alumnus E. Pierce Marshall Jr., honors the memory of Marshall’s father, E. Pierce Marshall, who died in 2006 of complications from leukemia at age 67. Read the full story here.