On Jun. 7, 2013, the University of Nebraska Board of Regents approved renaming the UNMC Eppley Cancer Center to the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center. The generous gift from Pamela Buffett honored her late husband, Fred ‘Fritz’ Buffett, who died in 1997 after fighting kidney cancer.

The $370 million project – the largest ever at the University of Nebraska – included three areas dedicated to cancer: a 98-laboratory research tower, a multidisciplinary outpatient center and a hospital with 108 beds.