Panda Express owners Andrew and Peggy Cherng donated $100 million for Eastern and other alternative care at City of Hope. It's the largest cancer care gift ever for the institution.
The gig: Peggy Cherng, 66, is co-chair and co-chief executive of Panda Restaurant Group, one of the most recognizable Chinese restaurant chains in the world.“We are thinking about how to be able to bring in Eastern medicine and combine it with Western medicine so we will be having the best of both worlds, and that will require a lot of research, education and training to be done,” Peggy Cherng said in an interview.
The donation grew out of discussions the Cherngs had with Kim and Dr. Richard Lee, who was hired 18 months ago to run City of Hope’s integrative oncology program.Lee said he has already received a National Institutes of Health grant to study the treatment of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy — damage to nerves in the hands and feet — with cannabis. He said the gift will enable the center to conduct rigorous clinical trials on any number of plant extracts.
‘I think where the field of integrative oncology has not been as rigorous as maybe it should be is conducting these larger studies to really show the differences between cause and effect,” Kim said. “And that’s why you don’t see them appearing on the standard guidelines of clinical practice that exist.”
“Designing trials and running trials that get to answers faster, learning from what comes from the trials and applying it back to the clinic — that’s what we do,” he said.The Cherngs moved to Las Vegas in 2014 but the Panda Express chain remains based in Rosemead. They are co-CEOs of the chain, which has more than 2,300 outlets, generating some $3 billion in sales.The Cherngs have now given away $211 million through their Panda Charitable Family Foundation.
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