HARRIET LEGUM translated her personal experience with cancer into an opportunity to help others. After successful treatment, she took the helm of a campaign to raise significant funding for breast cancer research at Hopkins. Mrs. Legum, who herself provided generous support, was joined by other donors, including her mother-in-law, NAOMI HENDLER LEGUM, and her husband, JEFFREY LEGUM, to endow the Breast Cancer Research Chair, as well as having endowed a breast cancer research fellowship. Mrs. Legum also serves on the board of the Kennedy Krieger Institute and the Hopkins Medicine National Council. Co-founder and co-chair of "A Woman's Journey," an educational program featuring Hopkins faculty, Mrs. Legum is the recipient of the American Cancer Society's Award of Hope. She has held volunteer leadership positions at the Associated Jewish Charities, the Susan G. Komen Foundation, the Park School, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. The Neurological Care Unit, for which the Legums have chosen to establish a professorship at Johns Hopkins, was one of the first in the world to apply contemporary approaches for maintaining and protecting the brain following acute severe injuries. To further this approach, the professorship supports research into the application of basic neurobiologic approaches and interventional treatments to acute brain illness.   Mr. Legum is president and chief executive officer of the Park Circle Motor Company, a holding company. Previously he served as president and chief executive officer of Legum Chevrolet/Nissan and the Westminster Motor Company. He is secretary/treasurer of the Baltimore Museum of Art, serves on the Board of Johns Hopkins Medicine, and is a member of the Wilmer Advisory Council. Mr. Legum's first association with Hopkins was as a lay member of the Institutional Review Board for Human Subjects Research at the Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He has served as treasurer of the Park School, vice president of the Associated Placement Bureau, and trustee of both the Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore and the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation.

"I don't know what tomorrow will bring, but I do know that I have done something very important for my daughter--and for all women--and this gives me the strength to cope with uncertainty." Harriet Legum

NANCY ELLEN DAVIDSON, the Breast Cancer Research Professor of Oncology, joined the Hopkins faculty in 1986 and serves as Director of the Breast Cancer Program in the Department of Oncology. Dr. Davidson has devoted her career to breast cancer research, both in clinical and laboratory settings.