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Schulze Professor and the Richard M.

Schulze Family Foundation Professor - to recognize outstanding cancer researchers who are internationally recognized for their work.

Diasio said the first symposium funded by the Foundation gift will focus on pharmacogenomics, developing genetic tests to see which drugs do, or do not, work best for individual patients.

Schulze, the founder of electronics retail chain Best Buy, and his family have been good to Rochester.

The foundation also gave a $2.5 million matching grant to the Hope Lodge, a home-away-from-home for patients undergoing cancer treatment at Mayo.

That gift prompted enough donations to allow a $5 million doubling of the lodge, which should be completed and open by early summer.

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