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Naming & Funding Opportunities

Unique, long-lasting options to add your name, or that of a loved one, to support groundbreaking cancer research.

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Make a meaningful impact by linking your name or a loved one’s with the compassionate care and innovative research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. By investing in naming and funding opportunities, you can support key priorities such as research initiatives, faculty, technology, and clinical care. 

From fellowships and named funds, to one of our dynamic naming displays, to in-kind donations, your contribution will be actively used to advance Dana-Farber's lifesaving mission, ensuring that your generosity leaves a lasting legacy.

The Gene Display, lit up pink and purple

The Gene Display

This display honors the impact that cutting-edge science has had on our ability to fight cancer.

Name a Gene
The Image Display at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

The Imagine Display

This display is a whimsical representation of our “bench to bedside” research model, seen through the eyes of young patients. 

Name an Item
The Ripple Effect Display at Dana-Farber's Chestnut Hill campus

The Ripple Effect Display

This display, at our Chestnut Hill and Foxborough locations, represents how your support impacts cancer patients' lives globally.

Name a Ring

People, Places, and Programs

Fund a fellowship, name a fund, or name a space in one of the beautiful buildings on Dana-Farber’s campus.

Adopt a Lab
Fund the laboratory of a gifted young researcher for one year and help fuel the next scientific discoveries.

Recognize a Professor
A professorship at Dana-Farber, endowed at Harvard Medical School, is the pinnacle of academic achievement. Your gift can underwrite a senior faculty role at both institutions and enable our prestigious senior faculty to further their transformational work.

Honor a Faculty Member
A Dana-Farber Chair honors and recognizes a distinguished senior faculty member and provides invaluable financial support to pursue the research and care initiatives that will lead to new discoveries.

Support an Investigator
You can provide a salary in perpetuity to an outstanding scientist or clinical researcher who has shown remarkable promise, creativity, and determination.

Fund the Future of Cancer Medicine
Fellowships ensure the Institute attracts the next generation of leaders. Income from this fund will support a bright young physician-scientist interested in conducting research at the Institute.

Create a Junior Faculty, Caregiver, or Staff Award
This fund supports a junior faculty award for one to three years and supports new investigators who are establishing independence in cancer research or recognizes the efforts of outstanding caregivers.

The Yawkey Center for Cancer Care enables us to more rapidly convert new scientific discoveries into practical benefits for our patients. At 14 stories and 275,000 square feet, the Yawkey Center enhances patients' experience of Dana-Farber's personalized and compassionate cancer care, which is guided by laboratory research, enabled by sophisticated technology, and dedicated to each patient's emotional well-being.

Name a space at the Yawkey Center today.

Presidential Priorities
Gifts of any size to this fund provide critical resources to the President of Dana-Farber to support the most promising new research initiatives in their earliest stages, and to enhance our total patient care.

General Support
Support the many laboratory and clinical research initiatives that take place at the Institute.

Technology
Support technology funds to fuel discoveries in research and innovative patient care.

Named Funds
Donors can create a current-use fund to address immediate critical needs, or an endowed fund to last forever. Both current-use and endowed funds may be unrestricted to provide flexible support where it is needed most, or designated to a specific research initiative, patient care program, or disease area.

Clinical Care
These funds help Dana-Farber fulfill its commitment to comprehensive compassionate care, by treating the whole patient—body, mind, and spirit.

Patient Assistance
Funds that support patient assistance provide emergency support to help alleviate some of the financial burdens families face when a loved one is battling cancer.

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