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                                                    CONTACT: Marguerite Beck

	                     KLUGE DONATES $1 MILLION TO 
	              UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
	    CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA., March 13 --The John W. Kluge Foundation has 
awarded $1 million to the University of Virginia School of Medicine to 
establish the John W. Kluge Distinguished Professorship in Urology.  The new 
professorship will be held by Leland Chung, a leading prostate cancer 
researcher who was recently recruited to U.Va. from the M.D. Anderson Cancer 
Center in Houston, TX.
     "This generous gift will help support U.Va.'s research on prostate 
cancer," said Dr. Robert W. Cantrell, vice president and provost of health 
sciences.  "Dr. Chung and his colleagues are working to find better treatment 
and a cure for those afflicted with prostate cancer."
     Chung is considered one of the leading investigators in the areas of 
prostate cancer cell biology.  His research focuses on early and reliable 
prostate cancer diagnosis, prevention of prostate cancer and treatment of 
advanced cancer using gene therapy.
     Prostate cancer ranks as the second most common type of cancer in 
American men, killing 41,400 last year, according to the American Cancer 
Society.
     The John W. Kluge Foundation, which is based in Columbia, MD., makes 
contributions to higher education, medical research and science.  
John W. Kluge, Albemarle County businessman and head of an international 
media corporation, is president of the foundation.
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                                                       March 12, 1996