Toast to Your Health Wine Auction

Toast to your Health wordmark logo with star burst

About the event

The annual Toast to your Health Wine Auction is the premiere fundraising event for the University of Rochester Medical Center.

Fund raised in 2025 supported the Transplant Institute at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Organ transplantation provides a second chance at life for patients with end-stage organ failure and some untreatable cancers. Thanks to the Transplant Institute, our Rochester community has access to world-class care in kidney, liver, and pancreas transplants close to home. As the only liver transplant program in Upstate New York, we have also developed the only live donor liver transplant program in our region.

URMC’s transplant oncology program provides patients with results that are among the best in the nation. We are one of only a handful of centers that perform specialized procedures utilizing unique and non-invasive techniques. Due to the Transplant Institute’s innovative approach at the intersection of transplant surgery and cancer treatment, patients are coming to Rochester from other top institutions around the country to get expert care from our team.

Funds raised will save more lives, support patients and families, and help make Rochester the global hub for innovative transplantation.

Questions? Please contact us at URMCevents@rochester.edu.

2025 Event Photos

  • Round table set up with dishes, untensils, napkins nicely laid out
  • Blue menu that says Wine Auction on it
  • Reception ballroom with hanging lights
  • Reception ballroom with hanging lights
  • Hands holding champaign that are doing cheers
  • 2 people at a lecturn clinking their champaign
  • A man dipping a woman on checkboard dance floor
  • A sign that says "Thank you! $2,051,000"
  • President Sarah C. Mangelsdorf posing in a group photo with 5 other people
  • A man at a lecturn speaking into a mic for the auction
  • A peacock feather, fake pearls, and feathers with gloves on table
  • A line of tables with wine bottles on them

2024 Event Photos

  • set tables with empty wine glasses and three projector screens with a list of the committee members
  • set table with many empty wine glasses
  • toast to your health logo projected on the wall
  • table set with many wine glasses
  • auction table with many bottles of wine, wooden boxes, and cards with their lot numbers
  • seating area with modern chairs, couch, and a grassy wall with window
  • lot 121 display with bottles of wine and digital display with lot description
  • lot 165 displayed on wooden barrel with two bottles of whiskey and a signed book
  • white cart with many empty glasses for wine and champagne
  • cheese, meat, and olive trays on a wicker table
  • angled view of the room with many tables set up with many empty wine glasses
  • trombone player smiling while playing
  • auctioneer speaks on stage with microphone next to podium
  • guests seated at tables hold up their auction numbers to bid
  • leaders pose on stage with glasses of champagne celebrating total money raised

Helpful links

URMC Advancement

University of Rochester Medical Center

Contact

URMCEvents@rochester.edu

Office of Advancement
Box #278996
300 East River Road
Rochester, NY 14627

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