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Jerome L. Greene ’26 Estate Funds
New Neuroscience Center
Dawn M. Greene and the Jerome L. Greene Foundation have presented the University with a gift valued
at more than $200 million, the largest gift received by the University and the largest private gift
received by any U.S. university for the creation of a single facility. The gift is to be used for
the creation of The Jerome L. Greene Science Center, a research and teaching facility that will serve
as the intellectual home for Columbia’s expanding initiative in mind, brain and behavior. Greene
made the gift to honor her late husband, Jerome L. Greene ’26, ’28L, a prominent New York
lawyer, real estate investor and philanthropist who died in 1999.
President Lee C. Bollinger announced plans to establish the center on the proposed Manhattanville
campus on March 20. It will be led by renowned neurobiologist Dr. Thomas Jessell and Nobel laureates
Dr. Richard Axel ’67 and Dr. Eric Kandel, all noted Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators.
In announcing the gift, Bollinger said, “He credited Columbia with providing him ‘the
greatest learning experience of my life,’” Bollinger said. “He served on the Board
of Visitors of Columbia College and as director of the Alumni Association of the Columbia Law School.
His counsel guided several generations of Law School deans and University presidents, and his gifts
in support of legal and undergraduate education at Columbia funded building projects, fortified financial
aid, and initiated and strengthened key academic programs.”
Greene was a founding member of the Manhattan law firm Marshall, Bratter, Greene, Allison & Tucker.
The Greenes have contributed approximately $40 million prior to this to initiate and fortify key programs
across the University.
The center will include laboratories in which Columbia scientists will explore the causal relationship
between gene function, brain wiring and behavior. This research will have implications for the treatment
of brain illness, probing the root causes of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s and
Alzheimer’s, and motor neuron diseases, and will assist in decoding disorders of mood and motivation,
cognition and behavior, such as autism, dementia and schizophrenia. The center will offer educational
outreach and clinical programs with a focus on childhood developmental disorders and diseases of the
aging brain.
For more information, visit the Columbia University Center for Neuroscience Initiatives website,
www.columbiacni.org.
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