The Department of Pathology is pleased to announce the creation of the Jacob Churg Research Award Fund through a $100,000 donation from the Wolfe and Gita Churg Foundation. The purpose of this gift is to support junior faculty research in 2022. The Dr. Jacob Churg Research Awards are specifically for non-salary operational expenses. In the coming weeks, the Department will establish a faculty committee to select the awardees.
We are most grateful to the Foundation’s managing director, Dr. Andrew Churg, PhD’71, MD’73, who spent ten years at the University of Chicago and who is internationally known professor of pathology at the University of British Columbia. This gift advances the legacy of his father, Dr. Jacob Churg, a pioneering pathologist who, with Lotte Strauss, gave his name to Churg-Strauss Syndrome (Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis - EGPA).