Philanthropic Priorities

1. Director's Fund

    * Provides essential funding for immediate and emerging needs on an annual basis.
    * Provides support for initiatives that otherwise might go unfunded.
    * Provides the resources necessary to recruit outstanding faculty and to respond to new opportunities.
    * Is often used as seed money--as a catalyst for new ideas to be explored.
    * Leverages additional funding, particularly for young investigators.
    * Ensures that novel ideas can be translated into new therapies more quickly to benefit patients.

2. Faculty Support

In order to continue attracting, retaining, and recognizing the top cancer researchers in the world, the Cancer Center needs to be able to continue to support their innovative research. Through named professorships, fellowships, and other endowments, you are able to help ensure the long-term stability of the cancer center faculty.

3. Research Support

While the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center receives millions from National Cancer Institute (NCI) grants each year, private philanthropy plays a major role in providing support for innovative efforts to diagnose, prevent, and eradicate cancer. Philanthropic support is particularly important in today's economic climate as funding from the NCI and other government organizations continues to decrease. This is unfortunate at any time, but particularly devastating when opportunities for major advances in cancer care are within our reach.

You can donate to the Director's Fund online or by contacting Doreen Matters at doreen.matters@duke.edu or (919) 667-2616. To donate to a specific research project, please contact Tom Kosempa at thomas.kosempa@duke.edu or (919) 667-2602.