A $1 million gift from a Phoenix couple will fund an endowed chair for prostate-cancer research at the Arizona Cancer Center, officials announced Tuesday.
The gift — from Phoenix philanthropists and longtime University of Arizona donors John R. and Doris S. Norton — aims to find "new and better ways to treat prostate cancer," said John Norton, a prostate cancer survivor since 1991.
Named to fill the new chair is University of Arizona oncologist Dr. Frederick Ahmann, said cancer center director Dr. David S. Alberts.
"Virtually no other oncologist in the U.S. has devoted his or her career to preventing and treating prostate cancer more than Dr. Rick Ahmann," Alberts said in a statement released Tuesday.
Both graduates of the UA, the Nortons in 2000 created the John R. and Doris S. Norton Endowed Chair for Fathers, Parenting, and Families in the College of Agriculture's School of Family and Consumer Sciences.
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Four years later, they gave $4 million to the College of Agriculture, with the John and Doris Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences named in their honor.
John Norton also led a campaign to raise $1.5 million for the Bartley P. Cardon Endowed Chair in the College of Agriculture.
In establishing the new chair, John Norton said, "I would like to make sure there is a wider and more in-depth recognition of the Arizona Cancer Center so that more people in Maricopa County will not only take advantage of it and use it, but support it financially."
It will be formally named the John Norton Endowed Chair for Prostate Cancer Research.
