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Our donors are helping us train tomorrow’s physician leaders, conduct groundbreaking research, care for all members of our community and create new models of care to improve health.
Charmaine and Gordon McGill, through their family’s Cain Foundation, have committed more than $12.5 million to support Dell Medical School’s Center for Psychedelic Research and Therapy. They believe the center’s research into psychedelics for treatment-resistant mental illness will help people like their sons, who died after prolonged battles with depression and addiction.
Chris and Pam Andrews, on behalf of the Firefly Fund, have announced a $5 million gift to Dell Med to go toward the launch of the first rare disease center in the Austin area. The center will serve the Austin community and beyond in providing rare disease research and therapies. The gift is in honor of their two daughters, Belle and Abby.
Greg Moore’s gift in honor of his late wife, Kathy, will support the work of Dell Med physician-scientist Léorah Freeman, M.D., Ph.D., who treats and studies older people with multiple sclerosis. Both UT alumni, the Moores created a foundation to support work toward fighting, curing and eliminating MS.
A generous gift from Dheeraj and Swapna Pandey sparks an innovative partnership between The University of Texas at Austin’s Machine Learning Lab, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, and Dell Medical School.
Thanks to a generous gift from Loretta and Jeff Clarke, Dell Med is improving care accessibility and delivery for Texas children with epilepsy.
Learning to harness neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to rewire itself, presents a new frontier for healing from brain disorders. Researchers hope a new study, funded by a gift from the Coleman Fung Foundation, will set the stage for further discoveries in neuroplasticity.