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Professor Gives $105-Million Thank-You
By Caroline Preston
A medical professor who defected from communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s has pledged $105-million to New York University School of Medicine, where he has worked for 40 years. The gift from Jan T. Vilcek will be paid with royalties from the sale of Remicade, a popular anti-inflammatory drug he helped to invent.
Dr. Vilcek, 72, says he is donating the gift...