Donors to Next, Now: The Campaign for Cincinnati invested in visionary talent, innovative programs and life-changing research to advance new avenues of discovery and care.
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New chairs and professorships
$241.9 million
to research
$10.3 million
to reduce health disparities
Investments in research: Philanthropy drove new areas of study, funding research into personalized medicine for Parkinson's disease, for brain injury recovery, pilot grants to launch big ideas for cancer treatment and a "game-changing" center for ALS research in Cincinnati.
Hands-on learning for new fields: Donors created opportunities for experiential learning like the Kautz-Uible Cryptoeconomics Lab and UC’s Center for Cyber Strategy and Policy for students, faculty and the community to drive education in emerging fields.
Endowed chairs for faculty leaders: Campaign gifts created 33 faculty chairs and professorships, supporting UC excellence in fields like transplantation, mental health and substance abuse, orthopaedic surgery, pharmacology and systems biology, and kidney care and research.
New national centers of excellence: Major gifts from national foundations supported centers of excellence: naming the Osher Center for Integrative Health at UC to expand evidence-based complementary therapies and supporting UC Health's Timothy Freeman, MD, Center to advance care for adults with developmental disabilities.
Transformative spaces at UC Health: The Cincinnati region supported state-of-the-art health care facilities, expanding options for care, research and education of the next generation of physicians and providers. This includes the UC Gardner Neuroscience Institute in 2019, the new UC Medical Center Emergency Department in 2023 and the UC Health Blood Cancer Healing Center in 2024.
Annual cycling event supports research at the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center.
UC faculty are global experts in the rare progressive lung disease.
A $3.8 million gift will fund a 5,000-patient biomarker study.