Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center

The Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center is on a path to becoming one of the nation’s leading cancer centers. Respected for decades as the Eppley Cancer Center, the center’s new name – Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center – and its future home create greater possibilities for cancer research and care in Nebraska.

A joint partnership between Nebraska Medicine and the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), the $323 million Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center is the largest project in campus history. The new facility will ensure Nebraskans and patients throughout the region have convenient access to the latest breakthroughs in cancer therapy.

Opening in 2017, the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center will include three areas dedicated to cancer: a 10-story, 98-laboratory research tower named the Suzanne and Walter Scott Cancer Research Tower; a 108-bed inpatient treatment center named the C.L. Werner Cancer Hospital; and a multidisciplinary outpatient center.

The Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center was named in recognition of a gift to The University of Nebraska Foundation from Pamela Buffett, through her foundation, the Rebecca Susan Buffett Foundation. Pamela’s husband, Fred “Fritz” Buffett, died in 1997 after fighting kidney cancer.