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Thomas Jefferson University President Paul C. Brucker, M.D., (left)
thanks Vickie and Jack Farber at the dedication ceremony of the
Farber Institute for Neurosciences.
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The Vision Behind the Farber Institute
Vickie Farber was a young mother with two small children when her father, Joseph Weinberg, died of ALS in 1962. The impact of his illness remains as strong today as it was then. Forty years after his death, Mrs. Farber watched helplessly as her mother, Frances Weinberg Brosman suffered with and eventually succumbed to another devastating brain disorder, Alzheimer's disease.
These experiences illustrate the cruel irony of neurological disease: ALS ravaged her father's body but left his mind sharp and aware to his dying day, while Alzheimer's inexorably stole her mother's mind while mostly sparing her body. In both cases, there was little doctors could do to ease their suffering, and no way to halt their progressive decline.
Determined that others not endure similar fates, Vickie Farber and her husband Jack have donated generously to Thomas Jefferson University to establish the Farber Institute for Neurosciences. Research, the Farbers firmly believe, is the only hope for finding the answers that will lead to cures. “The greatest gift for us and for all the people suffering from these devastating disease will be when cures are found,” Vickie Farber says.
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