Giving

Named Endowed Chairs in Regenerative Medicine

Supports the work in perpetuity of distinguished professors ensuring excellence in fields of medical research with bearing on regenerative medicine, cellular therapy, and tissue engineering and translation into a clinical setting. An endowed chair is the highest honor that is bestowed on a distinguished professor and represents leadership and profound responsibility. Funds generated from an endowed chair in Regenerative Medicine provide invaluable financial support for new research into stem cell therapy and biology.

Annual Fund Program

Supports ISCI’s broad base of basic and clinical research programs in regenerative medicine and stem cell therapies. The Annual Fund ensures the feasibility of operational initiatives, such the acquisition and regular maintenance of scientific and medical research equipment. Gifts to the Annual Fund may also be earmarked to assisting in the cost of clinical trials.

Fellowship Program

Provides opportunities for the best and the brightest to be mentored by ISCI renowned scientists. This program provides the funding needed to pay for tuition, fees and living expenses of post-graduate scientists who come to ISCI for an invaluable experience in cross-disciplinary stem cell research.

Pilot Research Project Fund

Supports new areas of research that develop the preliminary data necessary to seek comprehensive federal and state funding, including National Institute of Health (NIH) R01 grants that provide $1.9 million over five years.

In addition to these special funds, there are numerous other opportunities to support the ISCI scientists and physicians collaborating on stem cell therapies and regenerative medicine. To learn more, please contact Rachel Cameau, Senior Director of Development at 305-243-3037 or by email at r.cameau@med.miami.edu

There are many ways that of making a gift to ISCI, each of which expresses a donor’s particular interests and has distinct tax advantages. A charitable gift may be outright, providing immediate, current support. A gift may also be deferred allowing the donor to retain an interest in the gift property or it may be by bequest, as part of an estate plan. Outright contributions, often consisting of cash or appreciated securities, are the most direct way of assisting ISCI’s exemplary work and vision. In addition to gifts of cash, which allow donors to receive full tax benefits if they itemize deductions, outright gifts may include gifts of appreciated securities, gifts of life insurance and gifts of real estate and personal property.

Planned Gifts

Several planned giving options provide a donor additional benefits while providing an opportunity to make a larger gift than the donor ever thought possible. These benefits include: paying income for life back to the donor; providing a charitable income tax deduction; and reducing or eliminating capital gains taxes or estate taxes. Planned gifts can be made through Gift Annuities, Charitable Remainder Trusts, Charitable Lead Trusts and a Bequest. These gifts may require the donor to consult with a personal tax or state planning attorney.

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The Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute (ISCI) offers its benefactors a variety of commemorative giving and dedication opportunities that provide prominent recognition for extraordinary gifts. These opportunities seek to recognize those donors who serve as leaders in ISCI’s ongoing effort to advance therapies for hard-to-treat diseases in an ethical and rigorous manner.

It must be noted that these opportunities may be in discussion with potential donors or reserved to recognize a recently documented philanthropic commitment.

Imagine being responsible for rapidly advancing revolutionary therapies for hard-to-treat diseases. And for eventually saving thousands – even hundreds of thousands of lives.

That’s just what being a member of our prestigious Discovery Council means. This small group of forward-thinking philanthropists are helping to propel our research into new realms, which will lead to FDA-approved treatments for countless Americans suffering from heart disease, diabetes, cancer, arthritis and other chronic conditions.

Discovery Council funding enables the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Research Institute to accelerate research, leverage state-of-the-art technology and bring together the world’s top scientific minds.

The Discovery Council is not for everyone. It requires an extraordinarily generous gift – one that reflects the life-changing nature of our historic mission.

We look forward to having you as one of our prestigious Discovery Council members. Together, we can transform medical care as we know it.

Make your Discovery Council gift.