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Building Research Support in Washington
Ken Bentsen listens as Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
tells guests at a Sept. 12 reception in Washington,
D.C., about the Senator Lloyd Bentsen Center for
Stroke Research at The University of Texas Health
Science Center at Houston. Lloyd Bentsen spent
nearly 50 years in public service in the House and
Senate and served as treasury secretary during the
Clinton administration. He suffered a series of
disabling strokes in 1998 and died in May 2006.
Photos by J Street

In conversation with Lan Bentsen, right, are Pete Geren,
Undersecretary of the Army, left,
and Mike Pate, managing
partner, Bracewell Guiliani. The Bentsen family’s $1 million to
establish the Senator Lloyd Bentsen Center for Stroke Research within the Brown
Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases is allowing
the UT Health Science Center to expand research into the debilitating effects of stroke,
the third leading cause of death in the United States.

