Louisville's Norton Healthcare Foundation has received a $3 million dollar gift for the new Norton Neuroscience Institute.The money comes from Ray and Mary Hass of Louisville, and will be used in part to endow a research chair for Parkinson's disease, and a research chair for epilepsy.Mary Hass says several family members have suffered from neurological disorders and brain injury, and she's a former president and current legislative director of the Brain Injury Association of Kentucky."It really is my life's work and I really will be actively involved ...I''m not saying i'll be so much with the chairs, but with the public policy and the advocacy part, I really would like to continue in that work an my work with the NortonFoundation," Mary Hass said Thursday.The Hass family has operated an electronics business and a commercial real estate firm.Norton recently announced the creation of its neuroscience institute, which will be developed over the next ten years.
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