{"id":249,"date":"2021-10-13T08:32:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T13:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alcopelandf.wpengine.com\/?page_id=249"},"modified":"2022-01-25T16:09:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T22:09:26","slug":"1-million-endowed-chair","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alcopelandfoundation.org\/1-million-endowed-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"$1 Million Endowed Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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In 2011, the $1 million Al Copeland\/Cancer Crusaders Endowed chair in Endocrine Cancer was established at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans. Because research drives all advances in cancer treatment and prevention, the Al Copeland Foundation partnered with Louisiana\u2019s flagship academic medical center and its renowned cancer research enterprise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Establishing the endowed chair was a corporate effort, beginning with separate $300,000 donations from both the Al Copeland Foundation and Cancer Crusaders, as well as a $400,000 match from the Louisiana Board of Regents. While the principal donations remain untouched, the interest earned supports the work of the chair\u2019s holder. Further, the prestige and funding that are garnered through chairs are a powerful tool used to recruit effective effective researchers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Dr. Steve Nelson, Dean of the School of Medicine at LSUHSC New Orleans, has appointed Augusto Ochoa, MD, and Director of the LSUHSC Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center, as the recipient of the Al Copeland\/Cancer Crusaders Chair in Neuroendocrine Cancer. Introduced in 1987, Endowed Chairs for Eminent Scholars is a highly competitive program designed to enhance the recruitment and retention of distinguished university faculty. <\/span><\/p>

The program pairs a 60% private-sector match with a 40% Board of Regents award to endow a chair to be filled by a scholar with both high renown and tremendous ability. The funds supporting endowed chairs are invested in an interest-bearing fund in which the principal remains intact while the interest provides a perpetual source of annual income. This income is used to recruit and support the academic and research efforts of the exceptional faculty member appointed to this position. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201cI am deeply honored to hold this chair, and I\u2019m so inspired by the community partnerships that made it possible and will continue to be a fundamental part of our success.\u201d<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Dr. Ochoa earned his MD from the Universidad de Antioquia in Colombia in 1982. That year, he started a postdoctoral fellowship at the Immunobiology Research Center at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where he later became an Assistant Professor in 1986. Dr. Ochoa served as Head of the Immunotherapy Laboratory for the National Cancer Institute (NCI) from 1989 to 1996 and Head of the NCI Signal Transduction Laboratory from 1996 to 1997. He designed and led several clinical trials using the patient\u2019s immune system to treat cancer.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>

At LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, Dr. Ochoa founded and now directs the cancer immunology program. Aside from this primary position, he is also a professor of Pediatrics, an adjunct associate professor of Biochemistry, and a practicing physician in the field of Allergy and Immunology. His research interests include T-cell function, cytokine production, macrophage T-cell interaction, immune regulation, immune dysfunction and disease, as well as tumor immunology.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cDr. Augusto Ochoa is a preeminent scientist whose contributions include discovering signature changes in the immune system that indicate cancer has blocked the body\u2019s protective immune response allowing it to grow and spread. We recruited him from the National Cancer Institute where he led the Immunotherapy Laboratory.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cWe are thrilled that Dr. Ochoa, an extremely accomplished doctor, has been named the Al Copeland\/Cancer Crusaders Chair recipient. This is a wonderful opportunity for LSU Health Sciences Center to further the research of Neuroendocrine Cancer. We are very excited to see what the future holds for our community and cancer research.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cWe are grateful to the Louisiana Board of Regents for providing matching funds to complete the Al Copeland\/Cancer Crusaders Chair in Neuroendocrine Cancer at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans. This type of support goes a long way toward helping us attract and keep research superstars working to solve some of medicine\u2019s most devastating diseases.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Creating Solutions In 2011, the $1 million Al Copeland\/Cancer Crusaders Endowed chair in Endocrine Cancer was established at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans. Because research drives all advances in cancer treatment and prevention, the Al Copeland Foundation partnered with Louisiana\u2019s flagship academic medical center and its renowned cancer research enterprise.  Establishing the endowed chair…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"hide","_kad_post_layout":"fullwidth","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"unboxed","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"hide","_kad_post_feature":"hide","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alcopelandfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alcopelandfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alcopelandfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alcopelandfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alcopelandfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alcopelandfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alcopelandfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}