On February 17th, 2022, James Joo-Jin Kim, Agnes Kim, and the James and Agnes Kim Family Foundation announced a $25 million gift supporting multiple initiatives at Penn. A big portion of this gift has gone towards creating the Kim Family Neurovascular Sugery Program at Penn Medicine.
This funding allows the Department of Neurosurgery to establish a comprehensive platform for the development of new technologies for treating neurovascular disorders—including strokes, brain hemorrhages, aneurysms, and cerebral vascular malformations—from initial design to translation into patient care.
The Kim Family Program will include a neurovascular innovation lab that will develop novel technologies to treat disorders involving the blood vessels in the brain, as well as approaches for preserving or restoring neurological function that is lost after stroke or brain hemorrhage. Designed to leverage Penn’s expertise in neurosciences, engineering, robotics, nanotechnology, and cellular and molecular biology, the program will provide funding for research with the aim of preventing or lessening the consequences of neurovascular disorders and improving patients’ quality of life. Moreover, this gift will secure an endowed professorship in cerebrovascular surgery, ensuring that Penn Medicine can recruit and retain top talent and expand its impact on health care regionally, nationally, and globally.
Outside one of our Angio Suites, a plaque was hung thanking the James and Agnes Kim Foundation for their generous support of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.