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Basic Sciences Giving

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Celebrating 10 Years of School of Medicine Basic Sciences
Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences is celebrating ten years of cultivating curiosity and creating cures. To celebrate this milestone, make a gift to any of the areas below that are a pillar to our success.

Research

  • Our world-class laboratories and departments provide students with 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.
  • The Clinical Translation Fund supports feasibility studies that help determine whether promising discoveries can become viable therapeutic strategies, diagnostics or technologies.

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.
  • Richard Caprioli Basic Sciences Research Award for Technology Education Fund helps trainees gain hands-on experience with advanced technologies that are shaping the future of discovery.
  • Zenobia and Mark Godschalk Research Fund recognizes graduate students whose scholarship, leadership, and research accomplishments exemplify excellence in biomedical science.
  • The ASPIRE Program goals are threefold:
    • Educate and empower biomedical sciences trainees to make well-informed career decisions
    • Enhance experiential learning opportunities so that trainees transition efficiently to research or research-related careers in either nonacademic or academic venues
    • Integrate career and professional development into Ph.D. training.

       

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Joining One Vanderbilt Society

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    Charitable gifts from alumni and friends provide critical support for our students, faculty members and programs. Your gift of $2,500 and up each fiscal year or $1,000 and up each fiscal year for alumni who received their degrees within the last 10 years qualifies you for membership in the One Vanderbilt Society. You can learn more about One Vanderbilt Society here.

Ways to Give

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    Giving Online

    Give online here

    Mail Your Gift

    Vanderbilt Gift and Donor Services
    PMB 407727
    2301 Vanderbilt Place
    Nashville, TN 37240-7727

    Giving by Phone

    Call 615-322-2979 Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. CT

    Donate Stock

    If your brokers wish to wire money, we have an online form they can fill out here, or they can call our gift processing office directly at 615-875-1155.

    More Information

    For more information on making a gift to the Basic Sciences, please contact BasicSciencesGiving@vanderbilt.edu or a member of the Development and Alumni Relations staff below.

Development & Alumni Relations Team