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Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer Research

 Organization

Biography

The Eleanor Roosevelt Institute was est. 1959 as part of the American Medical Center, Lakewood, Colo. Ground breaking ceremony held Nov. 16, 1959, but construction was never completed. In 1961, as a project of the Eleanor Roosevelt Cancer Foundation, Inc., it became part of the the University of Colorado Medical Center (renamed the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in 1979). The Foundation also established two other research centers (no longer in existence) at the University of Utah Medical Shcool, and the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa. The Foundation and the Denver Institute later merged. In 2003 the Institute became part of the University of Denver, under a shortened name, the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (ERI). Do not confuse with the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (presumably of Hyde Park, N.Y.) founded 1972 as a successor to the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation, which initiated and cosponsored projects to celebrate and perpetuate the values of Eleanor Roosevelt, esp. in fields of peace, youth, and social policy, and which merged with the FDR Four Freedoms Foundation to form the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in 1979.

Found in 538 Collections and/or Records:

Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, circa 1990

 Item
Identifier: U158.03.0047.00096
Abstract

Eleanor Roosevelt Insitute building at 1899 Gaylord Street, Denver, Colorado.

Dates: circa 1990

Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, circa 1990

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Identifier: U158.03.0047.00097
Abstract

Eleanor Roosevelt Insitute building at 1899 Gaylord Street, Denver, Colorado.

Dates: circa 1990

Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, circa 1990

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Identifier: U158.03.0047.00098
Abstract

Eleanor Roosevelt Insitute building at 1899 Gaylord Street, Denver, Colorado.

Dates: circa 1990

Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, circa 1990

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Identifier: U158.03.0047.00099
Abstract

Eleanor Roosevelt Insitute building at 1899 Gaylord Street, Denver, Colorado.

Dates: circa 1990

Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Building, circa 1980

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Identifier: U158.03.0047.00081
Abstract

Eleanor Roosevelt Institute building at 1899 Gaylord Street, Denver, Colorado.

Dates: circa 1980

Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer Research Records

 Collection
Identifier: U158
Abstract The Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (ERI), Denver, Colorado was founded in 1959 to promote biomedical and genetic research as a cost-effective, long-term approach to the conquest of human afflictions like cancer, premature aging, birth defects and genetic diseases. Theodore Thomas Puck, Ph.D. (1916-2005), the Institute's founding scientist, was a geneticist and a pioneer of somatic cell genetics and single-cell plating (cloning) and later studied the genetic causes of cancer. The collection...
Dates: 1900-2008

Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Staff Member, 1986

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Identifier: U158.03.0157.00060
Abstract

Eleanor Roosevelt Institute male staff member photographed in mirror. Laboratory chemicals and equiment in foreground.

Dates: 1986

Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Staff Member Holds Tray, between 1980-1989

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Identifier: U158.03.0142.00010
Abstract

A male Eleanor Roosevelt Institute staff member holds a tray in a piece of laboratory equipment.

Dates: between 1980-1989

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Type
Archival Object 537
Collection 1
 
Subject
Denver (Colo.) 464
Parties 184
Medical research personnel 178
Laboratories 128
Ceremonies 109