SMOKING OUT TOBACCO - Moores Cancer Center

THE LAST WORD
Endowed Chairs:
A GIFT TO THE FUTURE
With a “comprehensive” designation from the NCI, and construction of our
own dedicated building on track for an early 2005 opening, the Cancer
Center is proceeding with plans to secure another fundamental component
of the most distinguished academic medical institutions: endowed chairs.
An endowed chair is a faculty position
supported by income from a
substantial trust fund. The principal
remains inviolate, while the fund’s
yield, which is available in perpetuity,
provides a dependable stream of
income to sustain the work of the
succession of stellar faculty members
designated over time as the chairholders.
When a chairholder leaves or
retires, another outstanding researcher
is appointed to occupy the chair. In this
way, endowed chairs extend and maintain
excellence and ensure continuity.
Endowed chairs increase both the
size and quality of the Center’s faculty,
providing funds that allow us to compete
with the nation’s top institutions
in recruiting the most gifted scientists.
Through endowed chairs, the Center
can offer the most outstanding
researchers positions of prestige
and honor that are commensurate
with their stature. In the intense
competition for leading scientists that
exists among universities and industry,
endowed chairs literally can make or
break the hiring of the most illustrious
faculty.
“Endowing a chair can be enormously
rewarding for a donor and
can have tremendous impact because
the good that it provides goes on
forever,” notes John Pierce, Ph.D.,
director of the Center’s Cancer
Prevention and Control Program,
and holder of the Sam M. Walton
Chair in Cancer Prevention.
An enduring act of philanthropy, an
endowed chair at the Moores UCSD
Cancer Center can be named for the
donor or someone the donor wishes
to honor, immortalizing him or her
and forever associating that name
with excellent scientific research.
Every publication and official communication
from current and future
chairholders will include the name of
the chair, acknowledging the donor’s
support and forever linking that
name with the scientific advances
that the chairholders bring about.
Older institutions generally have
larger endowments and greater
resources to attract the nation’s
preeminent faculty. Although UCSD,
founded only four decades ago, has
catapulted itself into the ranks of the
nation’s top universities in an amazingly
short time, it struggles with a
comparatively small endowment and
smaller number of endowed chairs
than its peers.
Endowing a chair at the Moores
UCSD Cancer Center is, therefore,
a unique opportunity to make a
highly visible and lasting impact
on cancer research, now and for
generations to come. For further
information, please contact the
Cancer Center’s director of development,
Sarah Godfrey, 858-822-0070.
UCSD Cancer Center
9500 Gilman Drive MC 0658
La Jolla, CA 92093-0658
(858) 822-0022
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