In 2002, the Penn Medicine’s Cancer Center was renamed the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania recognition of the support of Leonard and Madlyn Abramson and family.

Madlyn was the quintessential philanthropist. Much of her generosity, and that of her husband, Leonard Abramson, founder and former chief executive of U.S. Healthcare, the health management organization, was directed to the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Medicine, and they were benefactors to many other institutions in the region and beyond.

Together with her husband, Madlyn gave more than $140 million to what, with their visionary support, grew to become the Abramson Cancer Center and propelled Penn to national eminence in cancer care, clinical trials, and cancer immunotherapy.