This endowment supports a lectureship in the Immunology Center of Georgia (IMMCG) to be named the Margaret-Gertraud Immunology Lectureship as a tribute to the mothers of renowned immunologists and vascular biologists Klaus Ley, M.D. and Lynn Hedrick, Ph.D. Drs. Ley and Hedrick, both Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholars, serve as co-directors of the IMMCG at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.The Center dramatically expands research to better harness the power of the immune system to prevent and treat disease.