NEWS
By Edward Gunts and Edward Gunts,Staff Writer | October 8, 1993
Six months after preservationists raised a howl of protest about plans by the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions to tear down the former Phipps Psychiatric Clinic in East Baltimore, administrators have chosen another site to build a $130 million cancer center.Dr. James A. Block, president of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System, announced yesterday that Hopkins trustees have selected a 72,000-square-foot parking lot at the northeast corner of Broadway and Orleans Street as the "final site" to build the cancer center, starting next spring.
NEWS
By David Folkenflik and David Folkenflik,SUN STAFF | May 14, 1996
Baltimore philanthropist Harvey "Bud" Meyerhoff has pledged $3 million to the Johns Hopkins University as part of the university's $900 million campaign.Meyerhoff, a Hopkins university trustee who formerly headed the Johns Hopkins Hospital's board of trustees, previously established an endowed professorship in Near Eastern Studies and a cancer prevention center at Hopkins' School of Public Health. The cancer center was named in honor of him and his late wife, Lyn Meyerhoff.The new gift includes $2 million toward the completion of Hopkins' $97 million comprehensive cancer center; $500,000 for a fellowship at Hopkins' Nitze School for Advanced International Studies; and $500,000 for an endowed professorship in bioethics at the public health school.
NEWS
By Jacques Kelly and Jacques Kelly,Sun reporter | September 15, 2007
Dr. Martin D. Abeloff, an internationally recognized oncologist who led the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center for 15 years, died of leukemia yesterday at the hospital where he spent most of his professional career. The Mount Washington resident was 65. An advocate of mammography as a means of reducing breast cancer mortality rates, he spent much of his professional career working to apply research findings to everyday medicine. Under his leadership, some 30,000 outpatients visited his center a year.
NEWS
By Erin Texeira and Erin Texeira,SUN STAFF | April 17, 1997
Last November, just days after his wife died of breast cancer, Dr. William B. Mayer was asked for permission to use her name for a new cancer center at Howard County General Hospital.Thinking it would be a cancer treatment center, the obstetrician-gynecologist immediately agreed.A week later when he learned that the new facility -- now called the Claudia R. Mayer Cancer Resource and Image Center -- would help patients and their families handle the emotional aspects of cancer, he became thoroughly convinced that it should bear his wife's name.
FEATURES
By Mary Gail Hare, The Baltimore Sun | June 18, 2011
Patricia Artimovich survived a life-threatening disease, thanks, she says, to the Johns Hopkins Avon Breast Cancer Center and to the healing power of horses. Next weekend, horses and their riders will help her raise funds for the hospital and its mission. "Why not take something as beautiful as a horse and organize a show dedicated to Hopkins?" she said. Artimovich is putting together the eighth annual PVDA Ride for Life, an event that has grown from modest beginnings at small arenas into two days of family entertainment at the Prince George's Equestrian Center in Upper Marlboro.
NEWS
By Jonathan Bor and Diana Sugg and Jonathan Bor and Diana Sugg,SUN STAFF | October 24, 1999
The Johns Hopkins Cancer Center will soon leave its cramped, outdated quarters for a pair of spacious buildings that are designed for a new era of cancer research and treatment.Standing on opposite sides of North Broadway, the $125 million clinical center and $59 million research building will open at a time of mounting competition among hospitals and explosive growth in scientists' understanding of the disease.The nine-story clinical tower, with 132 patient beds and room for hundreds of outpatients, will be formally dedicated tomorrow at ceremonies in its tall, airy atrium.