Giving Options
Funding in each of these areas supports a broad range of projects and activities vital to the advancement of medical knowledge.
Cancer Center
The Cancer Center is the only academic-based cancer research and patient care group in Southeastern Wisconsin. It brings together more than 215 physicians and scientists from more than 34 disciplines. The Cancer Center has two major goals:
- Help cure cancer by transferring knowledge from the laboratory to the patients.
- Qualify as a federally designated cancer center, which would help ensure patients' continued rapid access to new cancer treatments and improve the College's positioning for federal grants
Funding priorities: Postdoctoral research fellowships, research venture funds, equipment and endowed professorships. Learn more about the Cancer Center or find out how to give.
Cardiovascular Center
The Cardiovascular Center brings together more than 100 physicians and scientists from 23 disciplines. The Center is committed to programs emphasizing genetic therapies in six areas: stroke, heart attack, tumor development, heart failure, high blood pressure and prevention.
The transfer of knowledge from the laboratory to patients and students is a priority.
Funding priorities: Postdoctoral research fellowships, research venture funds, equipment and endowed professorships. Learn more about the Cardiovascular Center or find out how to give.
Digestive Disease Center
The Medical College of Wisconsin's Digestive Disease Center has a tradition of excellence that spans four decades. The unique collaboration of 91 Center physicians, scientists and staff from 14 departments provides a multidisciplinary approach to patient care, research and education in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of digestive diseases.
Funding priorities: Postdoctoral research fellowships, research venture funds, equipment and endowed professorships. Read more about how to give.
Eye Institute
For Millions of children and adults, the world can be blurry, distorted or hardly visible at all, and the suffering this causes can be immense. The problem of vision loss is awesome, the solutions urgent and the prospects promising.
Eye Institute physicians have literally saved the sight of thousands of people through sophisticated surgical techniques and medical interventions, but we have miles yet to run in our quest to discover the 'how' and 'why' of eye disease.
Since we opened our doors more than thirty years ago, Eye Institute researchers have diligently worked to understand the causes of eye disease. Discoveries in the lab, made possible in part through private funding of research endeavors, have produced new knowledge resulting in an improved understanding and more effective methods of treating such disorders as color blindness, macular degeneration, viral infections of the eye, retinal disorders and glaucoma.
Funding priorities: Postdoctoral research fellowships, research venture funds, equipment and endowed professorships. Read more about how to give.
Center for International Blood & Marrow Transplant Research
The mission of the Center for International Blood & Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR) is to improve the outcome of blood and marrow transplantation to provide more effective and successful treatments for these patients. As a clinical research program, the CIBMTR is dedicated to addressing important issues in the field of HCT. The Center offers a unique resource of data and statistical expertise to the medical and scientific communities. The CIBMTR maintains a clinical database with information on more than 220,000 transplant recipients. These data and the statistical analytic support made available through the CIBMTR have led to the successful completion of hundreds of studies aimed at improving the outcome of blood and marrow transplantation. The CIBMTR has also been able to use its comprehensive database and statistical expertise to guide medical decisions, increase survival, and enrich the quality of life for thousands of children and adults. Learn more about the CIBMTR or find out how to give.
Faculty / Research Support
Distinguished, dedicated faculty are our foundation for new levels of excellence in education, research and patient care. Named, endowed chairs and expendable faculty support are sought to recruit and retain the best faculty.
A named, endowed chair is the highest honor the College can bestow on a physician or scientist. It is a source of great pride for the recipient, and stable, annual income to supplement their salary or research funding. A chair is a powerful means of attracting and retaining distinguished faculty.
Funding priorities: Postdoctoral research fellowships, research venture funds, equipment and endowed professorships. Read more about how to give.
Student Support
Recruiting the best medical students by expanding scholarship and loan-aid support is a priority. Most students graduate with a debt of more than $90,000 for their medical education. About 90% of all Medical College of Wisconsin students qualify for some type of financial aid.
Funding priorities: Scholarships and student loan funds. Read more about how to give.
Medical Education
Like the field of medicine, the field of medical education continues to grow and change. In order to give our students and residents the best training available, faculty need opportunities to learn new approaches to teaching and to implement these new approaches in the classroom and clinic at the point of patient care. Support for faculty development and medical education programs improves the quality of teaching and learning available at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Funding Priorities: The Society of Teaching Scholars; Endowed professorships in medical education; Funds supporting faculty time, faculty development, or educational programs and initiatives; Additional opportunities available through MCW's Office of Educational Services.
Health Information Science / Informatics
Computers will have a heightened role in advancing medical frontiers. Informatics is a general term for how data is managed with computers.
In patient care, informatics focuses on medical outcomes and cost-effectiveness. In research, informatics focuses on data collection and analysis.
Funding priorities: Equipment and faculty recruitment. Read more about how to give.
Unrestricted Support
Science is often serendipitous, and unanticipated opportunities inevitably arise in the quest to advance medical frontiers. Unrestricted campaign funds are flexible funds, used where opportunities and needs are greatest. Unrestricted support most often is used for faculty recruitment and research equipment.
Read more about how to give.