Buffalo University alumn gives $5 million to pharmacy school
BUFFALO, N.Y. John N. Kapoor, class of ‘72, has made a $5 million investment in the University of Buffalo’s School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences through the John and Editha Kapoor Charitable Foundation.
The gift, issued as a challenge to encourage others to follow his exemplary lead, will support construction of a new home for the nationally ranked pharmacy school, as well as faculty research, student financial aid and an emerging technologies fund.
Kapoor has given more than $10 million to the school and with his most recent gift, he has become the most generous individual donor ever for the college.
Since 1986, the Kapoor Charitable Foundation has funded research, a state-of-the-art instrumentation core and graduate fellowships at UB. More recent contributions provided support for five Kapoor Fellows in the pharmacy school, three of whom have graduated and begun their careers and two who are current pharmacy school students. The foundation’s support also was critical to the school’s successful completion of a Kresge Foundation Challenge Grant for $500,000 to pay for additional equipment.
The pharmacy school is preparing to move to the university’s South campus, where it join the college’s four other health science schools that comprise the UB Academic Health Center. The new building is expected to be completed in 2011 and will be named the John Kapoor Hall in his honor.