Wawa Founding Family Gives $25 Million Gift to CHOP for Fetal Medicine Program
The founding family of Wawa, Inc. has given a $25 million donation to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s fetal medicine program, writes Harold Brubaker for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The 25-year-old Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment was opened to treat children with birth defects before they are born.
The Center is being renamed The Richard D. Wood Jr. Center in honor of Richard Wood.
He was on the CHOP board for 16 years. The Wood family has been supporting the hospital since its founding in 1855.
“It’s an extraordinary, historic gift,” said N. Scott Adzick, a pediatric surgeon who started the center in 1995. “This is going to fuel innovation, it’s going to fuel program development, it’s going to fuel research, it’s going to fuel recruitment. We couldn’t be more excited about it.”
The gift will support more space for the Garbose Family Special Delivery Unit created for healthy mothers carrying babies with birth defects.
It creates new endowments for a Distinguished Chair and Fellowships in Pediatric Surgical Science.
Another initiative includes a birth defects biorepository for genome research “so that we can unravel the genetic basis of the various defects that we treat,” Adzick said.
Read more at nbcphiladelphia.com about the Wood family donation to CHOP.
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