Phil and Penny Knight have committed $2 billion to Oregon Health & Science University for cancer research. The announcement was made in front of researchers, politicians, OHSU employees and cancer patients who attended the announcement on Thurs., Aug. 14, 2025. (OHSU/Jay Fram)

Phil and Penny Knight have committed $2 billion to Oregon Health & Science University for cancer research. The announcement was made in front of researchers, politicians, OHSU employees and cancer patients who attended the announcement on Thurs., Aug. 14, 2025. (OHSU/Jay Fram)

Phil and Penny Knight have committed $2 billion to Oregon Health & Science University for cancer research. The announcement was made in front of researchers, politicians, OHSU employees and cancer patients who attended the announcement on Thurs., Aug. 14, 2025. (OHSU/Jay Fram)

Phil and Penny Knight have committed $2 billion to Oregon Health & Science University for cancer research. The announcement was made in front of researchers, politicians, OHSU employees and cancer patients who attended the announcement on Thurs., Aug. 14, 2025. (OHSU/Jay Fram)

Phil and Penny Knight have committed $2 billion to Oregon Health & Science University for cancer research. The announcement was made in front of researchers, politicians, OHSU employees and cancer patients who attended the announcement on Thurs., Aug. 14, 2025. (OHSU/Jay Fram)

Targeting Hope Event. From left: Tim Boyle, president and chief executive officer of Columbia Sportswear; Nike Co-founder Phil Knight; Wieden+Kennedy Co-founder Dan Wieden; and Brian Druker, M.D., director of the Knight Cancer Institute, at the Targeting Hope gala for the Knight Cancer Institute in September 2013. (OHSU)

Nike, Inc. co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny, with OHSU Knight Cancer Institute Director Brian Druker, M.D. The Knights received the 2020 "Champions for Cures" award from the Association of American Cancer Institutes. (OHSU Foundation)

Nike, Inc. co-founder Phil Knight speaks at the Knight Cancer Institute during the Targeting Hope gala for the Knight Cancer Institute in September 2013. (OHSU)

Brian Druker, M.D., speaks on June 25, 2015, at the OHSU campus celebration about the Knight Cancer Challenge. (OHSU)