Sellners Endow Professorship in Department of Human Genetics

Morton and Henrietta Sellner

A reception in the late spring at the Ford Amphitheatre in University Hospital honored Morton and Henrietta Sellner of Coral Springs, Florida, for their gift of $1 million in the form of an irrevocable charitable remainder trust to benefit the Department of Human Genetics and to honor the work of George J. Brewer, M.D., professor of human genetics and a specialist in the research and treatment of Wilson’s Disease.

Morton Sellner worked for many years as an insurance broker in New York City and served as an adviser to the New York State Insurance Commission. The Sellners’ gift, with $750,000 in matching funds from the Medical School, will eventually establish the Morton S. and Henrietta K. Sellner Professorship in Human Genetics, and a $250,000 endowed research fund to accompany it.

H. Ascher Sellner, M.D., a gynecologist in private practice in Brookfield, Connecticut, who was in Ann Arbor with his parents for the annual meeting of the Wilson’s Disease Association, of which he is president, with Dean Allen Lichter. Wilson’s Disease is a rare, inherited disorder of copper metabolism in which copper accumulates slowly in the liver and is then released and taken up in other parts of the body.

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