Philanthropy in Action
Professor Scott Weaver holds five patents in vaccine development and continues to work on vaccines for many diseases. “The reason we get these projects off the ground quickly is because of endowment funding,” said Weaver, who is the scientific director of the Galveston National Laboratory.
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Anne Hudson Jones, Ph.D., uses distributions from the Harris L. Kempner Chair in the Humanities in Medicine to advance the need for well-rounded curricula in health care training. Hudson Jones uses literature to bring a human element to science.
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Dr. Richard Goodgame was named an Osler Scholar in UTMB's John P. McGovern Academy of Oslerian Medicine. The title was bestowed, in part, to honor Dr. Goodgame's qualities as a teacher and role model.
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Patients with burns to almost all of their bodies have a 50 percent chance of survival thanks to Dr. David Herndon’s innovative care, spelled out in his authoritative book Total Burn Care, widely used as a how-to manual.
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If you would like more information about how to start an endowment, please contact Betsy B. Clardy, CFRE, at bbclardy@utmb.edu ♦ (409) 772-1991