IU naming cancer research post for Brand

INDIANAPOLIS — IU will recognize former NCAA president Myles Brand by naming an endowed faculty position for cancer research for him.

The university says the position is aimed at supporting a biomedical researcher with expertise in pancreatic and other gastrointestinal cancers at the IU School of Medicine in Indianapolis.

Brand was Indiana's president for eight years before becoming the NCAA's leader in 2003. He died Sept. 16 at age 67 from pancreatic cancer.

Current university President Michael McRobbie is to formally announce a fundraising campaign for the Myles Brand Chair during a tribute program for him Wednesday night at Conseco Fieldhouse.