On Jun. 4, 2015, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) announced it had named a research building after the late Hildegard Lamfrom, Ph.D., who was one of the 20th century’s most influential and accomplished women in the emerging field of molecular biology during an exceptional career spanning four decades.

The building naming was suggested by OHSU following Gert Boyle’s $100 million gift made as part of the two-year Knight Cancer Challenge fundraising campaign. Lamfrom was one of Boyle’s two sisters and was influential in guiding the early career of Brian Druker, M.D., director of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, when he was studying chemistry.