The donation will support the “Driving Out Diabetes” initiative, which will take a multi-pronged approach to treating and preventing the disease.
“We are about to engage in a remarkable journey that will take diabetes head-on,” Lorris Betz, University of Utah’s interim senior vice president for the health sciences, told the Salt Lake Tribune.
The gift was announced by Gail Miller — who owns Sandy, Utah-based Larry H. Miller Group — in honor of her late husband, who died of complications from Type II diabetes.
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