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Item 9 · Boundary (Notre Dame / South Bend) + town test
Lead: The county's institutes stand in South Bend, and they date cleanly. The Mike and Josie Harper Cancer Research Institute was inaugurated on 8 March 2011 with the opening of Harper Hall, a joint partnership of the University of Notre Dame and IUSM—South Bend, founded on Mike Harper's $10 million gift in memory of his wife Josie, matched dollar-for-dollar by the State of Indiana; its research lines, per IUSM—South Bend, run to breast, ovarian and pancreatic cancer and leukemia, under director M. Sharon Stack. The rare-disease seat is older: Notre Dame's Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases was established in 2009 and endowed in 2014 by $10 million in combined Boler and Parseghian family gifts, becoming the Boler-Parseghian Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases; its first disease was Niemann-Pick Type C, and under founding director Kasturi Haldar — thirteen years in the role before stepping aside in May 2022 — its programs grew, in Notre Dame's own count, from one rare neurological disease in 2008 to twelve different rare genetic diseases in 2021, including Von Hippel-Lindau, Kabuki syndrome, and non-ketotic hyperglycinemia. A dating conflict on the neighbouring global-health institute is printed whole, unmerged, because this section dates what it carries: Notre Dame news in 2010 says the Eck Institute for Global Health “was established in 2008” on a $20 million Eck estate endowment, while the institute's own current About page says “Founded in 2010” — both statements stand as their sources made them. The town test for this item returned no cancer institute, no rare-disease centre, and no research institute of any kind seated in New Carlisle; the institutes that serve this town's patients are boundary institutions, credited to Notre Dame and South Bend.
Sources:
- Harper Cancer Research Institute (harpercancer.nd.edu): founded 2011 on Mike Harper's gift, matched by Indiana; inaugurated 8 March 2011 with the opening of Harper Hall; joint Notre Dame / IUSM—South Bend institute. Notre Dame news, 26 June 2007: $10 million Harper gift plus $10 million state appropriation for Harper Hall.
- Notre Dame College of Science news, 13 Oct. 2014: Boler and Parseghian families endow the Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases with $10 million combined; center established 2009.
- Notre Dame College of Science news, Apr. 2022 (updated 2023): Haldar steps aside after more than 13 years as director; growth from one rare disease in 2008 to 12 in 2021; named programs as quoted.
- Eck Institute dating, both sides: Notre Dame news, 10 Dec. 2010 (“established in 2008,” $20 million Eck endowment) vs. Eck Institute About page (“Founded in 2010”) — conflict printed unmerged.
- Town test: institute searches for New Carlisle, Indiana — no institute seated in town found.