health sciences

Supporting a socially responsible career switch

Funded through a $5 million endowment from the Helene Fuld Health Trust, Fuld fellowships at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing are awarded to students with previous undergraduate degrees in fields other than nursing who want to become nursing leaders focused on issues of social responsibility.

Making discoveries make a difference

The family of John Brock, chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises, has established the John and Mary Brock Diagnostic and Discovery Fund to help Emory researchers and physicians more quickly bring discoveries from the lab to the clinic.

Putting their trust in transplantation

The Carlos and Marguerite

Mason Trust has contributed more than $7.7 million to the Emory Transplant Center and played an important role in the development of a new FDA-approved drug that improves immune tolerance for patients after kidney transplantation.

Nurturing hope for cancer cures

Jim Kennedy, chair of Cox Enterprises, and his wife, Sarah Kennedy, are among many Georgians who want to help find a cure for cancer. The Kennedy Pilot Grant Research Awards help young cancer investigators develop novel ideas. The gift also supports recruitment of researchers and development of the survivorship program at Emory’s Winship Cancer Institute.

Jumping over hurdles in head and neck cancer

Established with a $2.5 million planned gift, the Lynne and Howard Halpern Chair in Head and Neck Cancer Research honors Fadlo Khuri as deputy director of the Winship Cancer Institute and leader of the head and neck cancer program.

Class acts

In 2008, graduates receiving the bachelor of science degree in nursing designated their senior class gift for the Service Learning Trip Scholarship Fund. The fund provides scholarships for nursing students to participate in alternative winter and spring break programs in Jamaica, the Bahamas, and the Dominican Republic, where they provide health care and education.

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