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Make a Difference for Cancer Patients
You can impact the cancer journey for patients and families. From rare childhood brain cancers and leukemia to breast, lung, prostate cancers, and more, we are providing breakthrough care today and creating the therapies of tomorrow.
Your gift will enable us to:
- Accelerate discovery research
- Develop new treatments and conduct clinical trials
- Provide support and complementary therapies to patients and families
- Increase access to care and decrease disparities
- Educate the next game changers in the cancer field
The Rogel Cancer Center is one of the top providers in the country and No. 1 in Michigan. We are a critical resource for everyone who needs us, with faculty collaborating across 53 departments. Your support will drive progress and help save and improve lives.
Giving Opportunities
Help support cancer research at its earliest stages by providing funds to create an "incubator" for promising ideas to be developed. To date, every dollar of seed money in the fund has generated approximately $8 in subsequent federal funding!
The Forbes Institute will encourage scientists across the university to undertake high-risk, high-reward initiatives with the potential to drive new advances in cancer research, fueling rapid development of innovative technology and new therapies.
Gifts to this fund relieve many of the burdens cancer places on patients and their families. Services are provided by cancer specialists in psychology, social work, art therapy, nutrition, finance, and countless other areas.
From the purchase of new equipment, to the establishment of new laboratories, to keeping doctors, nurses, and researchers abreast of the latest cancer information, the Director's Leadership Fund enables quick response to keep work at the cancer center mov
Your gift enables the cancer center to direct resources where they are most needed or where opportunities are greatest, from upgrading or replacing a critical piece of medical equipment to providing important resources to researchers and clinicians.
- Cancer Research Fund - Malek
- Dr. James Langeveld BMT Patient Support Fund
- Jeffery A. Colby - Colon Cancer Research Fund
- Lloyd and Laurie Carr Endowment Fund
- Maria Reinhardt DeCesare Research Professorship Fund
- Oncology Nursing Excellence Fund
- Rogel Cancer Center Adrenal Cancer Program
- Rogel Cancer Center Bladder Cancer Program
- Rogel Cancer Center Blood Cancers Program
- Rogel Cancer Center Bone Marrow Transplant Gift Fund
- Rogel Cancer Center Brain Cancer Program
- Rogel Cancer Center Breast Cancer Program
- Rogel Cancer Center Cancer Genetics Program Fund
- Rogel Cancer Center Colon Cancer Program
- Rogel Cancer Center Esophageal Cancer Program
- Rogel Cancer Center Helping Hands Fund
- Rogel Cancer Center Leukemia Program
- Rogel Cancer Center Liver Cancer Program
- Rogel Cancer Center Lung Cancer Program
- Rogel Cancer Center Lymphoma Program
- Rogel Cancer Center Melanoma Program
- Rogel Cancer Center Multiple Myeloma Gift Fund
- Rogel Cancer Center Ovarian Cancer Program
- Rogel Cancer Center Pancreatic Cancer Program Fund
- Rogel Cancer Center Research Fund - Kaminski
- Rogel Cancer Center Research Fund - Lao
- Rogel Cancer Center Research Fund - Worden
- Rogel Cancer Center Sarcoma Research Fund
- Rogel Cancer Center Uterine Cancer Program Fund
- Susie Schwartz Howard Breast Cancer Endowed Research Fund
- Sweet Caroline ACC Research Fund
Philanthropy is really a critical element in our success — the initial rocket stage that gets the very best research ideas off the launch pad.
Eric Fearon, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center
Philanthropy News
TODAY show star Jill Martin aims to help improve health care for all women through the Women's Health Luncheon.
Philanthropy News
U-M football fans Jim and Connie Achtenberg are turning their experience with glioblastoma into hope by funding research at Rogel Cancer Center.
Philanthropy News
Mary Vandewiele's commitment to integrative oncology training programs is a powerful example of how philanthropy advances patient care.
Philanthropy News
With the same high standards that drive their successful construction company, Glenn and Trish Granger approach philanthropy with a commitment to meaningful impact.
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New Rogel and Blondy Center for Pancreatic Cancer will bring together researchers and clinicians to drive forward new treatments and improve outcomes
Philanthropy News
Julie was a master gardener who grew up on a fruit farm in southwest Michigan. She also had a family history of cancer, which sadly foreshadowed her own ovarian cancer diagnosis.
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Join us on May 31st for our Annual Brain McVeigh Memorial Golf Outing! Proceeds from this event will support brain cancer research at Michigan Medicine.
Join us on June 13 for our 3rd Annual Joe Liparoto Memorial Golf Outing! Proceeds will support patients undergoing bone marrow transplants and their families at Michigan Medicine.
Join us July 27, 2025 for our annual Stomp Out Sarcoma 5K! This event raises awareness and funds for sarcoma research at the Rogel Cancer Center.
