Current Fundraising Campaigns

$2,500,000 for the Rochelle and Mark Gordon Endowed Research Professorship in Cancer Biology and Epigenomics

The award of an endowed research professorship recognizes certain academic achievement and accomplishment in research by an investigator with full professor status. The chair supports specific core research programs or general basic scientific research.

Marcello Bento Soares, PhD

• Joined Childrens Memorial Research Center in 2005
• Dr. Soares is recognized worldwide for his major contributions to the development of open and free access public databases of Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs). Approximately five million ESTs in GenBank have been derived from cDNA clones contributed by the Soares laboratory.

$3,000,000 for Recruitments in Human Molecular Genetics

Ann Harris, PhD

• The Valerie and George D. Kennedy Research Professorship in Human Molecular Genetics
• Joined Children’s Memorial Research Center in 2005
• Dr. Harris brings an outstanding international reputation along with a world view of academic achievement and its application to human genetic disease. She believes translational research is a critical component of a comprehensive genetics initiative and has tremendous potential for improving human health.

3 Outstanding Recruitments

• Recruitment of additional outstanding young investigators committed to furthering understanding of the molecular mechanisms of human genetic disease and designing creative approaches to novel therapies.
• 5 years of operational support

$1,000,000 to Advance the Experimental Therapeutics Program

Ram Yogev, MD

• Director of Experimental Therapeutics at Children’s Memorial Research Center, Director of Pediatric and Maternal HIV Infection and Director of the Center for HIV/AIDS Research at Children’s Memorial Hospital
• Building The Program

  People

  Pharmacologist with clinical or modeling background

  Analytical Scientist for assay development

  Lab Support Assistant

  5 years of operational support

  Equipment

  Primary analytical labratory equipment beyond standard labratory equipment

$55,000 to Schneider’s Hospital, Israel, Doctor Exchange Program

The MRIC/Schneider Children’s Hospital Fellowship Exchange Program allows qualified Israeli doctors to participate in a clinical fellowship at Children’s Memorial. In addition, the Exchange Program helps to foster collaborative relationships that will sustain communications and a sharing of ideas between the partnering institutions for years to come. The MRIC/Schneider Children’s Hospital Fellowship Exchange Program truly represents a powerful partnership that has and will continue to bring about advances well beyond those that could be accomplished by these institutions on their own.

$1,000,000 to Endowment Fellowship Fund for Pediatric Kidney Disease

Expanding the study of Pediatric Kidney Disease will enable Children’s Memorial to improve the lives of children with genetic and inherited kidney disease. With the support of the MRIC, Craig Langman, MD, and his team hope to expand into the new field of nanotechnology. Doing so has the potential to develop uniquely engineered nanodevices to monitor, repair and control human biological systems and potentially regenerate tissues.

To date, $3.1 million dollars was raised for these campaigns.