Frank Gehry awards C. Frank Bennett the 2019 Leslie Gehry Brenner Prize, HDF Gala 2018
Channel: HereditaryDiseaseFoundation
Date: 2019-01-29

On October 22, 2018, Frank Gehry, member of the Hereditary Disease Foundation Board of Directors and Founding Trustee, presented the 2019 Leslie Gehry Brenner Prize for Innovation in Science to C. Frank Bennett of Ionis Pharmaceuticals. “A few years ago my young daughter passed away from ovarian cancer,” said Mr. Gehry, “We created a fund in her name – Leslie Gehry Brenner – and we give that award every year. The idea was to give it without any strings and see what happens. I love that idea – the freedom that it implies.”