T. Denny Sanford

Businessweek magazine has listed T. Denny Sanford among its fifty most generous philanthropists. He made his fortune as the owner of First Premier Bank and Premier Bankcard, and is currently chairman and CEO of United National Corp. His $100 million pledge in 2013 to establish the UC San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center was the second largest gift in the university’s history. Designed to accelerate the movement of stem cell research into human clinical trials and therapies, the center will build on the science that Sanford facilitated with a $30 million gift to the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine in 2008. Sanford also supports The Preuss School UC San Diego and Scripps Institution of Oceanography.