Giving to Genetic Medicine
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Empowering Patients on their Health and Reproductive Journeys

Your gift can help our physicians provide the highest-quality care while contributing to major advances in patient care, research, and education.

Gifts are propelling our ground-breaking work forward across a wide spectrum of disease areas that impact families, including:

  • Gene sequencing
  • Studying disease-causing genes
  • Genetic counseling

The Division of Genetic Medicine is working to prevent disease and protect those who seek our care. Our physicians and scientists are at the forefront of science and medicine, advocating on behalf of patients, bursting with scientific discovery, and empowering families with knowledge about the realities of their personal health history and future. And, with our commitment to medical education that will bring forth generations of experts in the field, your gift will impact patients’ lives.

Giving Opportunities
Molecular Medicine & Genetics Division Patient Care Fund
Gifts will provide support for Molecular Medicine and Genetics Division patient-care related activities.
Advance discovery science
Reddy Family Genetic Medicine Cancer Fund
This fund supports innovative research, clinical, and educational activities to develop new therapies for cancer patients and to educate the next generation of cancer researchers and caretakers.
Advance life-saving research
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Philanthropy News
Bright Pink invests in cancer prevention innovation 
Bright Pink funds PROACT, a partnership between University of Michigan and Stanford to empower families with inherited cancer risk to access genetic testing and lifesaving resources.
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Philanthropy News
Michigan Medicine donors fuel breakthroughs in discovery research
Michigan Medicine Discovery Research Week celebrates essential research and the donors who make it possible.
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Health Lab
Jill Martin’s breast cancer journey
TODAY show contributor Jill Martin talks about breast cancer treatment and why she’s advocating for early detection and genetic screening.
Medicine at Michigan
$7.6 Million Gift Launches New Lung Cancer Research Initiative
Researchers will work to find alternative treatments for non-small cell lung cancers that have become resistant to standard treatment
Partner With Us

We would be pleased to discuss your interests and goals — and the impact your gift can have. We can connect you with faculty and staff, identify where your help is most needed, and share how giving can provide personal satisfaction as well as financial and tax benefits.

Lori Hirshman Lori Hirshman
Director of Development