Giving Opportunities
Opportunities to Help Progress
Biochemistry Trainee Childcare Support Fund
Biochemistry Trainees often face challenges in balancing their academic and professional aspirations with their family responsibilities. Attending conferences and professional training is critical for career advancement, networking, and staying current in their fields. However, for students with children, the cost of childcare can be a major barrier, preventing them from fully participating in these essential opportunities. The Trainee Childcare Support Fund is designed to bridge this gap. This fund provides financial assistance to trainees, helping to offset childcare, or other necessary related expenses while they attend professional events. By alleviating this burden, the fund will empower students to advance their education and careers without creating financial stress. Your support for this fund directly impacts the lives of trainees, fostering their success and ensuring they can fully engage in opportunities that enhance their future. Together, we can create a more inclusive academic environment where all students, regardless of their care giving responsibilities, can thrive.
The Biochemistry Department will match each donation 1:1 up to $10,000.
Development Fund for Biochemistry
Contributions to the Department of Biochemistry's development fund provide essential support for the department's teaching and research missions, postdoctoral and graduate training opportunities, state-of-the-art equipment and emerging technology, and initiation of new programs. Gifts in any amount are welcome.
SACNAS
SACNAS is an all-inclusive community dedicated to supporting broad representation in STEM fields to match the demographics of our nation and to fostering the success of scientists from under-represented and all backgrounds. Our goal is to help these members attain advanced degrees, careers, and positions of leadership in STEM.
Donations will help fund networking, outreach, and cross-cultural activities; professional-development speakers; and student travel to national STEM and professional-development meetings.
Marjorie Riches Gunn Endowment Fund
Named for Marjorie Riches Gunn, long-time friend and former biochemistry department secretary during the chairmanship of Dr. Leo Samuels; proceeds from this fund support a wide range of initiatives, programs, and events.
Naming Opportunities
Naming opportunities exist for endowed professorships, graduate and postdoctoral fellowships, and research funds. Deferred gifts and other tax planning approaches can make more substantial gifts possible. Through a planned gift, donors can give assets to the University of Utah Department of Biochemistry while retaining the income. In addition, bequests can be made as a specific gift of cash, property, or a percentage of an estate.
Faculty Support
Endowing a chair allows the Department of Biochemistry to recognize extraordinary research achievements of exceptional faculty who might otherwise be recruited elsewhere.
- $1,500,000 – Presidential Endowed Chair
- $1,000,000 – Endowed Chair
Endowing a professorship in biochemistry is an investment in leadership. The department recruits and retains outstanding investigators who carry out innovative research programs and foster scientific excellence within the institution.
- $500,000 – Endowed Professorship
- $400,000 – Endowed Associate Professorship
- $350,000 – Endowed Assistant Professorship
Trainee Support
Endowing a postdoctoral fellowship in biochemistry is an investment in promising young talent. Postdoctoral researchers collaborate with biochemistry faculty and offer fresh perspectives that enrich the research enterprise. These researchers will become the scientific leaders of tomorrow.
- $500,000 – Endowed Postdoctoral Fellowship
Endowing a graduate fellowship in biochemistry is an investment in education and the long-term future of science. Graduate students work under the guidance of biochemistry faculty are vitally important members of the department. The rigorous training they receive sets the stage for their future success and prepares them for scientific careers in a variety of different venues.
- $500,000 – Presidential Endowed Graduate Fellowship
- $300,000 – Endowed Graduate Fellowship