Campaign Initiatives
Health and Medicine
UChicago is shaping the future of health and medicine through rigorous inquiry, exceptional patient care and education, and interdisciplinary partnerships to confront complex health challenges.
Accelerating Discovery. Elevating Health.
The University of Chicago’s history of scientific and medical breakthroughs—from the discovery of REM sleep to the first hormonal cancer therapies—was achieved through a simple formula: bring the best minds together and empower them to pursue the most urgent and challenging questions.
Through this same formula, our distinctive intellectual community continues to untangle medical mysteries, pioneer new fields, and elevate the standards of healthcare.
Today, the possibilities for human health exceed what most of us thought possible just a decade or two ago. New technologies are transforming the way we think about medicine and the way we diagnose, prevent, and treat health conditions.
With our legacy of scientific achievement, culture of interdisciplinary collaboration, expertise in evolving fields such as quantum medicine and artificial intelligence, and network of world-class partner laboratories, UChicago offers leadership the world needs.
We are committed to scaling UChicago’s global impact in healthcare and scientific innovation. Philanthropic partnership will play a critical role in all we seek to accomplish.
Fueled by your support, we will:
- Empower interdisciplinary teams and foster university-wide collaborations to confront the most urgent and challenging questions in human health
- Enhance clinical and research programs of prominence
- Attract and retain world-class faculty, the best minds in science and medicine
- Increase support for students and trainees in the Pritzker School of Medicine and the Biological Sciences Division (BSD) to recruit top talent and reduce the burden of student debt
- Grow campus bioscience infrastructure such as the AbbVie Foundation Cancer Pavilion, Hyde Park Labs, and BSD research space to propel discovery and enhance care
Contact
UChicago Medicine and Biological Sciences Development
773.702.6565
givetomedicine@bsd.uchicago.edu
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