OHSU's $100 million anonymous donor is Columbia Sportswear's Boyle; donated to honor sister

The anonymous donor that gave $100 million to Oregon Health & Science University last month has been revealed to be Columbia Sportswear's chairwoman Gert Boyle, and the donation was made to honor her late sister.

The Oregonian reports (http://bit.ly/1u3PZAc) that Boyle's $100 million brings the university $70 million closer to triggering Phil and Penny Knight's matching $500 million donation that the Nike cofounder promised a year ago. The Knight Cancer Challenge is intended to make the university's Knight Cancer Institute among the top cancer research facilities in the country.

Knight Cancer Institute head Brian Druker says that when he was a grad student in California, he was mentored by Boyle's sister, Hildegard Lamfrom. Druker then met Boyle and told her about working with her sister.

Lamfrom had been a research scientist. She died in 1984 at the age of 62 from a brain tumor.

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Information from: The Oregonian, http://www.oregonlive.com