Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam donate $12.5 million toward blood cancer research and treatment
CLEVELAND (AP) – Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam have donated $12.5 million to blood cancer research and treatment.
The donation includes $10 million to the Oxford-Harrington Center for Rare Diseases in England for research and drug development focused on chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and other rare blood cancers. The remaining $2.5 million will go to University Hospitals Cleveland Seidman Cancer Center, which will establish an endowed chair in CLL research and an innovation fund to drive advances in care.
“I am extremely grateful to live a full and healthy life after being diagnosed with CLL in 2021,” Dee Haslam said in a statement. “Together with the UH Seidman Cancer Center and the Oxford-Harrington Center, we hope to increase knowledge about CLL, generate new treatments, and give others the confidence and knowledge they need to navigate the disease. Ideally, treatments for other blood disorders will be discovered in the process.”
CLL is the most common form of leukemia in adults. There is no cure, but modern therapies have made this a manageable condition.
Harrington Discovery Institute was founded in 2021. It has 227 drugs under development, 75 supported institutions, 47 companies in operation, 24 drugs in the clinic and 15 drug licenses.
The Haslams are also majority owners of the Milwaukee Bucks, Major League Soccer’s Columbus Crew and the NWSL expansion franchise in Columbus.
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