Giving

Dear Friends,

With the rapid advancement of research and computational technologies, we are at an exciting time in science to make leaps towards managing or curing diseases. Our faculty and labs are at the vanguard of these advances while simultaneously training the next generation of discovery scientists.

Donors play a critical role in supporting our research and graduate and postdoctoral training. Some areas of giving include:

Research

• Our world-class laboratories and departments provide students the opportunity to advance research, design, and develop new techniques and collaborate across disciplines.
• Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research (VCAR), which advances solutions around the causes, prevention, and treatment of substance abuse disorder through research, translational drug applications, and community outreach and education.
• Financial security through discovery grants for our forward-thinking faculty so that they can take the risks necessary to address the most difficult biomedical research challenges.
• The Warren Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery Fund directly supports the advancement of drug discovery and the creation of novel technologies to address some of the world’s most prevalent brain disorders, including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, dystonia, and autism, among many others.
• The Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund which supports innovative and high-risk research, the type of research for which Cohen is known, and which seldom receives early-stage support from federal agencies or other large-scale funders.

Trainee Support

• The Simple Beginnings Fund supports each incoming Ph.D. student providing them with personalized lab coats and underwriting numerous professional development seminars and activities for our students.
• The Roger Chalkley, Ph.D. Critical Need Fund directly supports Ph.D. students who are in a moment of crisis to help them continue in their studies.
• The ASPIRE Program goals are threefold:

1. Educate and empower biomedical sciences trainees to make well-informed career decisions;
2. Enhance experiential learning opportunities so that trainees transition efficiently to research
    or research-related careers in either nonacademic or academic venues;
3. Integrate career and professional development into Ph.D. training.

Your support will shape the careers of future scientists and bolster our cutting-edge research-all building towards major advancements in human health.

By supporting the School of Medicine Basic Sciences, you ensure that our students, faculty, and programs continue to thrive.

Thank you,

John Kuriyan, Ph.D.
Dean, School of Medicine Basic Sciences