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■ The Generous Virginians Project: DWIGHT AND MARTHA SCHAR


Transforming treatment


Schars’ $50 million gift boosts efforts to build a cancer research center focused on personalized treatment


Inova CEO Knox Singleton (center) says the gift from Martha and Dwight Schar was critical in building confi dence in the project.


I by Heather B. Hayes


nova Health System announced plans five years ago to create a first-ever cancer research center focused on personalized


treatment. When he learned of the proj-


ect, Dwight Schar, the founder of Reston-based homebuilding com- pany NVR Inc., was determined


Photo courtesy Inova Health System


to help in any way he could. First, Schar drew on his real


estate experience to help Inova acquire the property needed for the new center. He served as a negotiator in the 2-year, $180 million acquisition of the former ExxonMobil corporate campus and its 1.2 million-square-foot


former headquarters. Inova will open that building in 2018, after it is renovated, equipped and staffed at a cost of approximately $270 million. The facility will house all of Inova’s existing clini- cal cancer specialists and treatment facilities — which now are scat- tered around the Fairfax area —


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