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Billionaire oil tycoon Harold Hamm donates $150M to the University of Oklahoma to help study a cause that’s personal to him: diabetes

Photo of Harold Hamm (Credit: Getty Images—SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg)

More than 40 million Americans live with diabetes, according to the American Diabetes Association. One of them is billionaire oil tycoon Harold Hamm, who just donated $150 million to the University of Oklahoma to study the disease he was diagnosed with in his fifties.

“I’ve spent my life believing that when you see an opportunity to change the future, you don’t stand on the sidelines—you act,” Hamm said in a statement.

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