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Toyota Motor North America Gives $1 Million to Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute
June 18, 2001
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Toyota Motor North America has made a gift of $1 million to BRNI to endow a Chair of Advanced Brain Imaging. The gift was announced at West Virginia University on June 18 by Toshiaki “Tag” Taguchi, president of the corporation.
Present for the announcement were U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller, who has had a long relationship with Toyota and was instrumental in the company’s decision to build a manufacturing plant in West Virginia, and Governor Robert Wise.
Toyota’s gift will enable BRNI to attract a scientist of national stature to the position. Together with the scientific and technical resources available to BRNI—including Positron Emission Tomography and state-of-the-art Magnetic Resonance Imaging—the Toyota Chair of Advanced Brain Imaging initiates an era of world leadership in brain imaging for BRNI.