The GW Cancer Center received a $1 million donation to create a postdoctoral fellowship, the School of Medicine and Health Sciences announced last week.

The center will now house the Albert L. Tucker and Elizabeth T. Tucker Postdoctoral Fellowship which was sponsored by the Albert L. Tucker and Elizabeth T. Tucker Foundation for $1 million. The proceeds will support the postdoctoral training of one promising young cancer researcher each year, according to a release.

Eduardo Sotomayor, the director of the GW Cancer Center, said in the release that the center is grateful for the support from the Tucker Foundation.

“It will enable us to provide valuable training to a fellow who will make a difference in the field of cancer research,” Sotomayor said in the release. “We know that through gifts like this one, that GW Cancer Center will foster innovation and discovery in cancer research and clinical care.”

The GW Cancer Center, announced in 2013, is a collaboration between GW Hospital, GW Medical Faculty Associates, and SMHS, and also partners with the Milken Institute School of Public Health. Sotomayor joined GW last year after a years-long search to fill the position.

The Albert L. Tucker and Elizabeth T. Tucker Foundation was established in 1995 and provides financial support to hospitals and medical centers.

“The Tucker Foundation has provided funding for similar positions in the healthcare community in Washington, D.C., and has watched with great pride the achievements of the young medical scientists who have been sponsored through the generosity and foresight of the Foundation’s two founders – Albert and Elizabeth Tucker,” Nicholas McConnell, the president of the Albert L. Tucker and Elizabeth T. Tucker Foundation, said in the release.