Northwestern University Trustee Kimberly K. Querrey (’22, ’23 P) and the Louis Simpson Trust have made a new US$121 million gift to Northwestern to advance biomedical discovery at the Feinberg School of Medicine, reinforce the University’s position as a global research powerhouse and expand executive education at the Kellogg School of Management.
A significant portion of the new gift will go toward supporting biomedical research at Feinberg. It will support four new initiatives at Feinberg including US$64 million towards the construction of a 19-level building with 15 lab floors, expanding on the Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly K. Querrey Biomedical Research Center. The original center opened on the Chicago campus in June 2019, and brings physicians together with top-ranked clinical affiliates to solve complex biomedical challenges. Perkins & Will are the architects for the project.
Other areas the generous gift will go to are:
– $25 million to create and endow the Simpson Querrey Lung Institute for Translational Science. The institute will advance new basic discoveries in pulmonary medicine for the benefit of patients.
– $10 million to create and endow the Simpson Querrey Center for Neurovascular Sciences. The center will advance new ideas related to neurovascular diseases across medical disciplines.
– $1 million to support the Kimberly Prize in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, which Querrey established in 2022 in honor of Simpson.
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