The Albert Einstein Medical Center has received a gift of $1,000,000 under the terms of the will and deed of trust of the late Maurice Elkin, industrialist, it was announced here today. Mr. Elkin died last month in Miami Beach, Florida, at the age of 77.
The Einstein Board of Trustees had not yet determined to what use the gift would be put. The instrument making the gift was first drafted by Mr. Elkin in 1938. The Jewish Hospital was designated as his principal beneficiary, and when the Medical Center was formed in 1952, and Jewish Hospital became the Northern Division, Elkin changed his gift to favor the new Medical Center.
Nochem W. Winnet, president of the Federation of Jewish Agencies, hailed the Elkin gift which, he said, is “one of the largest individual charitable gifts not only in the history of our Federation but in the annals of Philadelphia philanthropy.” Judge Winnet voiced the hope that it would “inspire other charitable members of the community to follow Mr. Elkin’s example.”
It was also announced here today that two staff research scientists at the Albert Einstein Medical Center here have received Career Development Awards from the National Institutes of Health, totaling more than $160,000. The awards went to Dr. Marvin A. Rich, a virologist, who is conducting a series of investigations into the relationship between viruses and cancer; and to Dr. Charles Panos, a bacteriologist an biochemist, who is investigating a group of microorganisms possibly associated with rheumatic and arthritic conditions. Each of the awards is for a period of five years, renewable for another five years.
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