Endowments, Major Gifts and Other Naming Opportunities

Endowment funds play a fundamental role in supporting and helping to advance the missions of UPCI and UPMC Cancer Centers. Endowment funds are permanent legacies that provide significant donor recognition as well as vital annual income in perpetuity for UPCI or UPMC Cancer Centers.

Creating endowed chairs has proven to be particularly effective in recruiting, supporting and retaining top leadership in a medical discipline. Endowed chairs are cornerstones for an academic organization such as ours — an organization where individuals’ careers encompass myriad responsibilities. For the individuals whom they support, endowed chairs lend prestige, visibility and, most importantly, greater flexibility for the chair-holders to rapidly achieve their goals.

Some of our endowment opportunities include:

• Endowed chairs enable us to retain outstanding faculty members and attract new faculty "stars" to lead our clinical and basic research programs: $2 million

UPCI and UPMC Cancer Centers current list of Chairs include the following:

The Claude Worthington Benedum Endowed Chair in Radiation Oncology
Joel S. Greenberger, MD — 1993-

The Gregory T.H. Davies Endowed Chair in Brain Tumor Research and Physician Education
To Be Named

The Hillman Endowed Chair in Oncology
Ronald S. Herberman, MD— 1993-

The Richard M. Cyert Endowed Chair in Molecular Oncology
Bennet Van Houten, PhD — 2008-

The Arnold Palmer Endowed Chair in Cancer Prevention
Emanuela Taioli, MD — 2005-2008

The Lawrence Ellis Endowed Chair in Hematology and Oncology
Donald L. Trump, MD — 2000-2002

The Sampson Family Endowed Chair in Thoracic Surgical Oncology
James D. Luketich, MD — 2004-

The Bernard Fisher Endowed Chair in Surgical Oncology
David L. Bartlett, MD — 2006-

The Sandra and Thomas Usher Endowed Chair in Melanoma
John M. Kirkwood, MD — 2006-

The Giant Eagle Foundation Endowed Chair in Cancer Genetics
David C. Whitcomb, MD, PhD — 2005-

UPMC Endowed Chair in Head and Neck Cancer Surgical Research
Jennifer R. Grandis, MD — 2005-

UPMC Endowed Chair in Lung Cancer Research
Jill M. Siegfried, PhD — 2007-

• Endowed faculty or postdoctoral fellowships, which enable us to attract or retain nationally prominent professionals: $500,000 - $1 million
• Endowed fellowships, which ensure our ability to provide research training for fellows — the future generations of physicians and scientists: $350,000
• Named endowment funds, which can provide "seed" monies for young investigators working to build their programs; funding for senior investigators to conduct highly innovative or specialized research; support for the acquisition and maintenance of new research equipment for laboratories; support for unrestricted research to launch unique programs and major initiatives in cancer detection, prevention or support for general cancer research: $50,000 +

For more information on endowments, major gifts and other naming opportunities, please call our Development Office at 412-623-4700

Donating Gifts of Stock

To make a gift of appreciated securities (stocks, bonds or mutual fund shares), please inform your broker or bank and notify us of your intention by telephone at 412-623-4700. A development officer can explain how easily the securities can be transferred to UPCI or UPMC Cancer Centers.

Securities held for more than a year are tax deductible to the extent allowable by law and they may minimize capital gains liabilities.