[DetroitSky]

MSU gets $19.5M gift from Doug Meijer, Meijer Foundation for medical innovation building

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Michigan State University accepted a $19.5 million gift Friday, Oct. 25, from Doug Meijer and the Meijer Foundation for a cutting-edge clinic to be housed in a new medical information building on the Medical Mile.

“Together we are bringing health, hope and healing to all people and making the best available care anywhere here and now,'' said Norman Beauchamp, MSU’s executive vice president for health sciences.

The Meijer gift, discussed at the Board of Trustees meeting, was awarded to the MSU College of Human Medicine for the theranostics clinic, which will provide a place to do new types of cancer therapy. It will include a cyclotron-equipped radiopharmacy and PET/MR scanner.

Theranostics combines the terms therapeutic and diagnotics. It is used to describe the combination of using one radioactive drug to identify/diagnose and a second radioactive drug to deliver therapy to treat the main tumor and any metastatic tumors.

The new $85 million medical information building will be named for Doug Meijer, a cancer survivor and advocate for treatment for all cancer patients. The facility will be next to the MSU Grand Rapids Research Center, 15 Michigan St. NE, at the MSU Grand Rapids Innovation Park.