The University of Michigan Board of Regents today (March 25) approved the renaming of the U-M Depression Center for Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg and their family, in recognition of their transformational $30 million total giving to depression research and scholarship.
The center will be known as the Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg and Family Depression Center.
The Eisenbergs’ philanthropy toward the center includes earlier support for advanced science in the field of mood disorders and a professorship now held by the center’s new director, Srijan Sen, M.D., Ph.D.
“Thanks to the Eisenbergs’ extraordinary commitment to moving depression and bipolar illnesses out of the shadows and into the sunlight of advanced scientific research, discovery and evidence-based care, our university will be able to accelerate the pace of prevention, detection, treatment and support,” said U-M President Mark S. Schlissel, M.D., Ph.D. "It's hard for me to imagine a more important and timely investment in medical research than what is being made by the Eisenberg family."
“With the pandemic, we are finally talking about how central mental health is to our everyday lives,” said Kenneth Eisenberg. “There is a growing awareness about how pervasive conditions like depression are across the nation. There’s promise in that awareness. Depression, in all of its forms, has robbed millions of people of joy, purpose, relationships, and even lives.
Read more about the naming of the U-M Depression Center, including a video and Q&A with Kenneth Eisenberg, in the Michigan Medicine Newsroom.