Einstein School Gets $25 Million Endowment

The Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University announced a $25 million gift yesterday, one of the largest in its history, school officials said.

The gift, from Ruth and David Gottesman, will establish a $15 million Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Research and a $3 million facility for teaching clinical skills to students.

The endowment also will fund a $7 million Center for Epigenomics, the study of chemical "marks" that control a person's genes.

"I saw a need in all of these areas," Mrs. Gottesman, a longtime faculty member who currently heads Einstein's board of overseers, said. Mrs. Gottesman, a psychologist, joined the school's faculty in 1968 and retired in 2001.

"I fell in love with it immediately," she said of Einstein, "because we were doing significant work helping underserved kids."

Mr. Gottesman is the founder of the investment advisory firm First Manhattan Company.