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Support Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic Sciences on Giving Day!
Every Gift, A Step Forward. On Giving Day, every gift, no matter the size, takes us one step closer to achieving bold new heights.
Why Give to School of Medicine Basic Sciences? By investing in School of Medicine Basic Sciences, you are investing in the biomedical research that is the foundation of modern medicine. Your support of our extraordinary faculty, students, postdocs and staff fuels world-changing research into understanding, preventing, diagnosing and treating diseases that impact humanity.
When you choose to give to School of Medicine Basic Sciences, your gift will directly support:
- Our world-class laboratories and departments that provide students the opportunity to advance research, to design and develop new techniques and to 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.
- Funding for the Roger Chalkley, Ph.D. Critical Need Fund which directly supports Ph.D. students who are in a moment of crisis to help them continue in their studies.
- The Simple Beginnings Fund, which welcomes our new Ph.D. students in the biomedical sciences each year and provides student programming throughout the year.
- The Warren Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery Fund which 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.
By supporting School of Medicine Basic Sciences on Giving Day, you ensure that our students, faculty and programs continue to thrive.
Make Your Gift Go Further. This Giving Day, your impact can be amplified through exciting matches and challenges!
Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research (VCAR) Participation Challenge
- When 100 donors make a gift, then a $30,000 gift to Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research from Erin Calipari will be unlocked.
2025 Basic Sciences Dean’s Power Hour Challenge
- From 9 to 10 a.m. CT on April 10, Dean Kuriyan will match dollar-for-dollar all gifts made to School of Medicine Basic Sciences up to $5,000.
Be Part of Something Bigger. Your involvement fuels us as we dare to grow.
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View All DonorsDesignations and Initiatives
| Designation | Donors | Raised ($) |
|---|---|---|
| Vanderbilt Medical School M.D./Ph.D. Scholarship Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Harry J Guffee Scholarship Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Doctor of Audiology Degree Program | 0 | $0 |
| Grant R. Wilkinson Lectureship in Clinical Pharmacology | 0 | $0 |
| Translational Research-Sean Davies-Pharmacology | 0 | $0 |
| Hortense B. Ingram Chair in Cancer Research | 0 | $0 |
| Joel G. Hardman and Mary K. Parr Chair in Pharmacology | 0 | $0 |
| Thompson-Green Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Charles R Park Student Education Fund | 0 | $0 |
| North American Hair Research Society Award-Dr Everts | 0 | $0 |
| Emeritus Faculty Office | 0 | $0 |
| Microbiology and Immunology Graduate Education | 0 | $0 |
| James T & Olivia R Allen Scholarship Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Lubomir Hnilica Lectureship Endowment-Biochemistry | 0 | $0 |
| Alcon Universal Ltd-Dr Brash | 0 | $0 |
| Tadashi Inagami, Ph.D. Chair in Biochemistry | 0 | $0 |
| Earl W Sutherland Lecture | 0 | $0 |
| Pharmacology & Cardiac Vascular Res Lab | 0 | $0 |
| Harlan Howard Taylor Surgical Scholarship Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Richard Armstrong Chair for Innovation in Biochemistry | 0 | $0 |
| Jerri Rook Research Lab | 0 | $0 |
| Pat Farley Endowment | 0 | $0 |
| Department of Pharmacology-Dr. Boutaud's Fund | 0 | $0 |
| VICB Graduate Fellowship | 0 | $0 |
| Allan & Sara Bass Pharmacology Grad Student Assistance Fd | 0 | $0 |
| Charles Rollo Park Mem Fund-Diabetes & Metabolic Disease | 0 | $0 |
| Elaine Sanders-Bush Fund in Pharmacology | 0 | $0 |
| John Exton Memorial Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Jackie Corbin & Sharron Francis Travel Award | 4 | $114 |
| Department of Cancer Biology | 1 | $10 |
| Lisa Monteggia Research | 0 | $0 |
| Pharmacology-Tina Iverson Lab | 0 | $0 |
| Allan D. Bass Chair in Pharmacology #1 | 0 | $0 |
| Clinical Pharmacology Laboratory Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Carrie Jones, Ph.D. Laboratory Support | 0 | $0 |
| Young Biomedical Research Scholar Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Leon W. Cunningham Fund | 2 | $42 |
| Simerly Obesity Research Initiative Award | 0 | $0 |
| Parkinson's Disease Endowed Research Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Pancreatic Cancer Research | 0 | $0 |
| John E Chapman Lecture in Ecology of Med & Md Educ | 0 | $0 |
| Philip W Felts Lecture Series in the Humanities | 0 | $0 |
| Beck Shultz Schizophrenia Research Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Stanford Moore Chair in Biochemistry | 0 | $0 |
| Medical Physics Program | 0 | $0 |
| Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) | 0 | $0 |
| Department of Cell and Developmental Biology | 3 | $90 |
| Barlow Family Director of Vanderbilt Brain Institute | 0 | $0 |
| Translational Research-Stephen Fesik-Biochemistry | 0 | $0 |
| Cindy Connolly Memorial Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Charles D. Weaver's Lab-Pharmacology | 0 | $0 |
| Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics | 5 | $700 |
| Alpha Kappa Kappa Scholarship Fund | 2 | $50 |
| Hearing & Speech Sciences Graduate Education | 6 | $501 |
| School of Medicine Basic Sciences | 51 | $10,794 |
| Biochemistry Department Graduate Education Fund | 9 | $1,138 |
| Dolores Shockley Lectureship and Award in Pharmacology | 0 | $0 |
| Trey Gray Drug Discovery Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research (VCAR) | 31 | $32,113 |
| Mary and William O. Inman Jr. Scholarship Fund | 0 | $0 |
| BRET Postdoctoral Association | 0 | $0 |
| Molecular Physiology & Biophysics Graduate Educ Fd | 4 | $114 |
| Orrin H. Ingram II Chair in Cancer Research | 0 | $0 |
| Department of Biochemistry | 5 | $500 |
| Molecular Physiology & Biophysics Lab Fd for Dr Hasty | 0 | $0 |
| Hypertension Research Fund | 0 | $0 |
| J Hal & Velma E Smith Cancer & Diabetes Rsrch Fd | 0 | $0 |
| Vivien Casagrande Scholarship in Systems Neuroscience | 0 | $0 |
| H Houston Merritt Scholarship Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Thomas Lance Research | 0 | $0 |
| Parkinson's Disease Research Fund for Dr. Jeffrey Conn | 0 | $0 |
| Vito Quaranta Faculty Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Burrus Medical School Scholarship Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Lucile R Anderson Scholarship Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Dudley F. Peeler Jr. Graduate Student Research Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Annie Mary Lyle Chair | 0 | $0 |
| Natalie Overall Warren Chair in Biochemistry | 0 | $0 |
| National Academies-KECK Futures Fund-Dr Hamm | 0 | $0 |
| J. F. Fox Medical School Scholarship Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Quantitative Systems Biology Center (QSBC) | 0 | $0 |
| VICB Sponsored Lecture Series | 0 | $0 |
| Translational Research-Albert Reynolds-Cancer Biology | 0 | $0 |
| Leukemia Soc of Amer-Dr Wahls | 0 | $0 |
| Allan D. Bass Lectures Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Glen A. Millikan Lectureship | 0 | $0 |
| Huntington's Disease Research | 0 | $0 |
| Center for Structural Biology | 0 | $0 |
| O D Carlton II Scholarship | 0 | $0 |
| Pharmacology Graduate Education Enhancement Fund | 1 | $100 |
| Warren Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery | 4 | $55 |
| William N Pearson Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Roundtable Society Fund | 0 | $0 |
| ASPIRE Scholar Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Translational Research-Cortez-Biochemistry | 0 | $0 |
| Vanderbilt Brain Institute | 0 | $0 |
| Barbara D Murnan Memorial Scholarship Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Limbird Dissertation Award | 0 | $0 |
| Lee E. Limbird Chair in Pharmacology | 0 | $0 |
| Richard McEwen German, Jr. and Marjorie Wolff German Fund | 0 | $0 |
| School of Medicine Basic Science Dean's Discretionary Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Department of Pharmacology | 3 | $750 |
| Roger Chalkley, Ph.D. Critical Need Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Haley Award | 0 | $0 |
| Leo Schwartz Jr Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Vivien Casagrande Lectureship in Systems Neuroscience | 0 | $0 |
| Masters of Imaging Science | 1 | $2 |
| John N Shell Endowment Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Simple Beginnings Fund | 2 | $501 |
| Mass Spectrometry Research Fund for Dr. Richard Caprioli | 0 | $0 |
| Tracers in Metabolic Research: Principles and Practice of Kinetic Analysis | 0 | $0 |
| Center for Stem Cell Biology | 1 | $100 |
| Lemming Alumni 50th Anniversary Endowment | 0 | $0 |
| Ike Robinson Lecture Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Willard R and Louise W Faulkner Fund-Biochemistry | 0 | $0 |
| Clinical Pharmacology Research-Dr Wood | 0 | $0 |
| F. Tremaine Billings Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Colbran Lab Support | 0 | $0 |
| Aileen M Lange & Annie Mary Lyle Chair-Cardiovascular Res | 0 | $0 |
| Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Geoffrey David Chazen Award-Innovation in Med Educ | 0 | $0 |
| John G Coniglio Prize in Biochemistry | 0 | $0 |
| Emily and H. Campbell Haynie Scholarship | 0 | $0 |
| William K. Warren, Jr. Chair in Medicine | 0 | $0 |
| Translational Research-William Tansey-Cell/Dev Biology | 0 | $0 |
| Department of Pharmacology Graduate Education Fund | 2 | $40 |
| Graduate School Epidemiology Program/Studies | 0 | $0 |
| Dr. Brian Wadzinski Research | 0 | $0 |
| Richard R Crutcher MD Res Fund in Molecular Neuroscience | 0 | $0 |
| Education Support Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Blossom Caster Scholarship | 0 | $0 |
| Medical School Endowment | 0 | $0 |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb Co Fund-Dr Roger Cone | 0 | $0 |
| Richard M. Caprioli Award for Technology Education | 0 | $0 |
| James Preston Miller Scholarship Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Peter F McManus Trust Fund-Dr Saunders | 0 | $0 |
| Pharm Res/Mfg of Amer Student Fellowship-Joshua Fessel | 0 | $0 |
| Warren Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery- Outreach and Advocacy | 0 | $0 |
| Vanderbilt Biochemistry-Armstrong Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Biostatistics Education Program | 0 | $0 |
| The Karpay Award in Structural Biology | 0 | $0 |
| Biomedical Research Education & Training (BRET) | 0 | $0 |
| Research Fund for Dr. Frederick P. Guengerich | 0 | $0 |
| Interdisciplinary Graduate Program | 0 | $0 |
| Yull Lab Research Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Sean Davies Lab | 0 | $0 |
| Merck & Co Fund- Dr Biaggioni | 0 | $0 |
| MD/PHD Program Scholarship Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Frank Chytil PhD Meml Travel Schlrp-Biochemistry Students | 0 | $0 |
| Reed L McJunkin Graduate Schlp-Hearing & Speech Sciences | 0 | $0 |
| Robert E. Sullivan Scholarship | 0 | $0 |
| Dean's Loan Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Molecular Physiology & Biophysics-Dr. Danny Winder Lab | 0 | $0 |
| Dr. Ann Richmond Research Lab Fund | 0 | $0 |
| Albert Weinstein Memorial Fund | 0 | $0 |
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Anonymous
Gave $250,000 during a Challenge!
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Gave $225,000 during a Challenge!
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Gave $200,000 during a Challenge!
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Gave $200,000 during a Challenge!
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Gave $105,000 during a Challenge!
Dan (JD’98) and Lisa Brooks
Generated 1 gift, totaling $150
Offered a $100,000 match
Stewart Koch, BS'96
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Board of Trust Chairman Bruce Evans
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