From left, Richard H. Zeiss, John H. Reith, Zea Borok, Rohit Varma, Michael Gurevitch, Anne Hormann, Gene E. Gregg and Thomas Buchanan.

The Hasting Foundation’s board of directors met on the Health Sciences Campus recently, joined by Rohit Varma, MD, MPH, interim dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC and director of the USC Gayle and Edward Roski Eye Institute; Thomas Buchanan, MD, vice dean for research at the Keck School; and Zea Borok, MD, chief of the division of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine at the Keck School and inaugural director of the newly established Hastings Center for Pulmonary Research.

The Hastings Foundation is a longstanding supporter of pulmonary research at the Keck School, donating more than $33 million since 1975, including a recent $7.5 million gift to launch the Hastings Center for Pulmonary Research.