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Your gift helps us give hope to patients and their families

Finding new treatments and cures for a number of neuromuscular diseases is within our reach. With your
support, we can fulfill our vision to help patients around the world. Below are some of the ways you can help.

ENDOWED AND DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORSHIPS ENDOWED PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND
IN NEUROMUSCULAR CLINICAL CARE AND EDUCATION FUNDS—$250,000 to $500,000
RESEARCH—$1,500,000 to $2,000,000+
Your support of professional training and continuing education
Professorships are among the most coveted and defining rewards opportunities for our scientific and health care workforce will
that a faculty member can receive. They provide invaluable help ensure that we encourage new ideas and lead the nation
support that helps the recipient expand research projects, in amazing discoveries, groundbreaking technologies, and a
conduct clinical studies, and mentor Ph.D. candidates and junior nurturing partnership with our patients and families to improve
faculty. An endowed professorship is a long-term commitment their well-being.
to excellence that links its donors to quality medical education,
research, and patient care in perpetuity. PILOT PROJECTS/SEED FUNDS—$50,000 to
$100,000 (ANNUALLY)
ENDOWED NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE RESEARCH Gifts for seed funding are “risk capital.” They allow scientists to
FUND—$750,000 to $1,000,000
shift the direction of their research to follow promising leads
Our scientists perform groundbreaking research directed or new ideas, propelling scientific discoveries in new ways.
toward the prevention and treatment of neuromuscular disease. You can help give researchers the time they need to push the
Endowed research funds support mid-career scientists who have boundaries of science and allow innovative ideas to reach their
not yet attained the rank of full professor, but whose work has full potential.
distinguished them from their peers. This endowed fund will
provide the stability to support promising faculty careers and PATIENT- AND FAMILY-CENTERED CARE
encourage their ever greater achievement. FUNDS—$25,000 to $75,000

The demands of day-to-day care and changing family roles
TEAM SCIENCE FUNDS—$500,000 to $1,000,000+ can put stress on families and loved ones. A balance is needed
(multi-year)
between the patient’s autonomy and recognizing when
Most scientific discoveries are not made by one scientist. intervention of care is required, while making family members
Generally, breakthroughs are the result of years of intensive feel supported as well. Our unique programs provide support
work by teams of researchers that include graduate students, services for caregivers, patients, and families in Rochester and
postdoctoral fellows, and laboratory technicians. You can support surrounding communities. Your gift can help fund important
the contributions of our entrepreneurial, innovative research needs such as support groups and educational programs for
teams who have a legacy of working collaboratively across patients and families, or transportation/basic needs for the most
disciplines and with scientists from other institutions. You can vulnerable patients to ensure they continue their care.
also support the technology that speeds the path to new therapies
and cures, yet adds heavily to research costs.

“Donor support is our biggest strength and our most critical need.”
—RichaRd T. Moxley, iii, M.d.

For more information contact Brenda Geglia at:

(585) 276-4570 • bgeglia@admin.rochester.edu