Cancer Free Patient Gives Back to City of Hope

City of Hope patient and cancer survivor, Ted Schwartz, is now cancer free after receiving CAR T cell therapy at City of Hope in 2020 after a 16-year battle with lymphoma.

A $15 million gift from Schwartz and his family will help further accelerate immunotherapy research and treatment innovations at City of Hope. The gift will be used entirely for research, establishing two funds at City of Hope: the Accelerator Fund for Immunotherapeutics and the Immunotherapeutics Research Endowment Fund.

Schwartz made the gift in honor of the City of Hope team and his trusted physician and friend, Steven Rosen, M.D., City of Hope provost, chief scientific officer and the Morgan & Helen Chu Director’s Chair of the Beckman Research Institute, who will direct the research funds with a core committee.