April 28, 2008 - Volume 3, Number 14

In this issue:

• Patients are game for a new generation of recreation therapy
• Riggs receives the California Institute of Technologys highest honor for graduates
• State Supreme Court rules in Genentech case
• Industry VIPs celebrate with rare wines at second annual Taste of Hope benefit
• Teens beautify Hope and parsons villages through Chavez project
• Free-flying publicity comes courtesy of Hilton
• NIH offers career awards
• City of Hope in the News

Another sign of hope
Michael Amini, right, signs a beam as Michael A. Friedman, M.D., City of Hope’s president and chief executive officer, looks on during a “topping-off” ceremony for the future Michael Amini Transfusion Medicine Center.

Amini, chair and chief executive officer of AICO (Amini Innovation Corp.) and a longtime supporter of City of Hope, contributed $6 million to fund the construction of the facility. The center will house City of Hope’s blood collection, analysis, processing and transfusion programs. Amini gathered with several other key supporters and City of Hope leaders for the ceremony on April 23, which marked the placement of the final piece of the Amini Center’s inner structure — the signed beam — at the building’s apex. (Photo by: Thomas Brown)