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EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife Penny are donating $10 million over the course of a decade to an anemia research group named for a former University of Oregon president.
The Register-Guard reports (http://bit.ly/1SB0sge) two of Lynn and Dave Frohnmayer's three daughters died from Fanconi anemia, prompting the couple to start the Fanconi Anemia Research Fund in 1989.
The Knights' donation will go toward the group's David Frohnmayer Scientific Research Fund.
Executive Director Pamela Norr said in a statement that the Knights' donation is part of a $20 million campaign intended to speed up clinical trials and drug testing, among other goals.
Frohnmayer died of prostate cancer in March 2015 at the age of 74.
Lynn hopes the fund named for her husband will help researchers find new treatments.
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