For immediate release: October 10, 2003
For more information, contact George Stamatis at 216-368-3635 or george.stamatis@Case.edu

CLEVELAND—Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland (UHC) will honor philanthropists Iris S. and Bert L. Wolstein on Oct. 16 with the dedication of the new 320,000 sq. ft. research building bearing their name.

photo by Don Snyder Iris S. and Bert L. Wolstein

The Wolsteins will receive the Samuel Mather Award for Philanthropy, UHC's most prestigious award in recognition of their exceptional generosity and civic vision. The facility was named for the Wolsteins because of their $25 million gift toward the $110 million cost of the building. The dedication event will be an invitation only black-tie celebration.

Case faculty and staff also may see the building during the Associates Day Open House on Oct. 17 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Refreshments will be available and tours will be self guided.

"Iris and I have always been interested in philanthropy with respect to education and health," said Wolstein, the founder of Developers Diversified Realty Corporation and the Heritage Development Company, which builds shopping centers, hotels, restaurants and golf courses.

Located on Cornell Road and Circle Drive on the Case and UHC campus in University Circle, the new research building will be home for up to 700 research personnel in such fields as cancer and genetic epidemiology. The gleaming six-story structure built with limestone, metal, and glass was designed by Dijk Westlake Reed Leskosky Architects of Cleveland.

Speaking at the dedication will be from Case, Edward M. Hundert, M.D., president, and Ralph I. Horwitz, M.D., dean of the School of Medicine, and from University Hospitals Health System, Thomas F. Zenty III, president and chief executive officer, and Fred C. Rothstein, M.D., president and chief executive officer of UHC. The Wolsteins will also make remarks.

An artist's rendering of the new Wolstein Research Building

The Case community can see the new building if they attend a symposium on Oct. 17, from 9 a.m. until noon in its auditorium.

The symposium will address the topic of Science and Education Serving Society. In addition to Bert L. Wolstein, Hundert, Horwitz, and Rothstein, the program will feature Ohio Gov. Robert Taft, Sanford Markowitz, M.D., Ph.D., the Ingalls Professor of Cancer Genetics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, who will speak on the genes that cause colon cancer, James. Kazura, M.D., professor of medicine and director of the Center for Global Health and Diseases, who will speak on global infectious diseases, and the keynote speaker Leon Rosenberg, M.D., currently with Princeton University, former dean of the Yale University School of Medicine, and former president of the Pharmaceutical Research Institute and senior vice president to scientific affairs at the Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. In addition to being a specialist in inherited metabolic disorders in children, Rosenberg is also researching the nation's medical research enterprise and its key players, such as government, academia, and industry.

Online registration is at http://www.case.edu/events/wolstein or call (216) 368-3836 for more information.

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