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Description: A new blood vessel forms as a result of a stem cell injection. While further studies are necessary, early findings show that scarred tissue resulting from heart attack could, in fact, regenerated into functional tissue. Stem cell injections may one day replace organ transplantation.
Supporting the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute
Thank you for considering a gift to the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute (ISCI). Research institutions such as ISCI rely on generous gifts from individuals, foundations and corporations to provide a steady funding stream that ensures continuity of ongoing and new research. Your gift allows ISCI to direct resources to where they can have the greatest impact. To make a gift online, click here.
Areas of Support
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 Olga Bellido de Luna, Senior Development Director at 305-243-3903 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Methods of Giving
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.
To make a gift online, click here.