JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – A top Mississippi foundation is pledging another $9 million to the University of Mississippi Medical Center to help fund research into dementia.
The medical center announced the pledge over 25 years Monday. It will name the research arm of its Memory Impairment and Neurodegenerative Dementia Center for Gertrude C. Ford. Her foundation is giving the money, in additional to $1 million given earlier.
The center performs research into Alzheimer’s disease and offers treatment.
The foundation has also given or pledged $55 million to the Ole Miss Oxford campus, including $25 million for a performing arts center named for Ford and $25 million for a new science complex.
Founded by Gertrude Castellow Ford, who died in 1996, the foundation has also given to Jackson’s Millsaps College, hospitals, museums and arts groups.
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