The Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation has announced a joint gift of $10 million from the Henry L. Hillman and Hillman foundations.

Representing the largest single gift in the hospital's hundred-year history, the respective awards also are among the largest ever made by the two foundations. The combined gift will be used to establish the Hillman Endowment for Pediatric Transplantation Research and the Hillman Pediatric Transplantation Institute, part of the new Children's Hospital campus in Lawrenceville, which is scheduled to open in 2008.

"We are delighted to support the wonderful work being done at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh in the field of pediatric transplantation," said Henry Hillman, who has been a trustee of Children's Hospital for more than forty years. "Pittsburgh is already on the cutting edge in this field. With this additional support, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh will launch a new era in pediatric transplantation."

Children's Hospital is the busiest pediatric transplant center in the nation, performing more pediatric heart, lung, liver, and intestine transplants than any other center in the country.