OHSU center for pancreatic care receives $10 million gift to ‘save lives of pancreatic cancer patients and help their families’

Funding will support therapeutic advances, increase services for high-risk patients, fuel expansion in early cancer detection

By Amanda Gibbs March 11, 2022 Portland, Oregon

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Rosie Sears, Ph.D. (OHSU)

OHSU center for pancreatic care receives $10 million gift to ‘save lives of pancreatic cancer patients and help their families’

Brett Sheppard, M.D., summitted Mt. Kilimanjaro in 2015 with fellow OHSU oncologist Charles Blanke, M.D., to raise money for cancer research. The doctors braved extreme weather conditions on their climb to the top, where Sheppard raised a purple flag in honor of pancreatic cancer awareness. (Courtesy of Brett Sheppard)

Brett Sheppard, M.D. (OHSU)

Gift to the Brenden-Colson Center for Pancreatic Care

A wide variety of pancreatic cancer medical services and research will be funded through a $10 million gift from Norman and Linda Brenden to the OHSU Brenden-Colson Center for Pancreatic Care. (Getty Images)

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