Financier has heart for neuroscience

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But during a campus tour earlier this year, when Shindell walked into the laboratory of world-renowned spinal cord researcher Wise Young, he decided "to do something that I think will have an impact."
Shindell made a $3 million commitment to establish an endowed chair in neuroscience at the university.


"There is hope here," Shindell said during a recent visit to the W. M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, where Young and others conduct their leading-edge research and are participating in clinical trials using adult stem cells to treat paralysis.


The donation will become official on Oct. 30 when Shindell will join the faculty and staff of Rutgers University in Kirkpatrick Chapel during one of its rare investiture ceremonies. The solemn but celebratory event will honor Shindell for his largesse and officially establish an endowed chair known as the "Richard H. Shindell in Neuroscience Chair."