Your gift, no matter what the size, will help build excellence that cannot be reached solely by state support and federal grants alone. For example, your contribution can be used to hire a faculty with critical cutting-edge expertise or help student or postdoctoral fellow focus on a groundbreaking research project.
As a maturing Institute, NIPM has many opportunities for you to get involved in a major way. With an endowment, the income from your gift provides funding in perpetuity for a particular program; with an outright gift, you are supporting that program or project on a one-time basis.
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Some of the areas you may consider for significant support, that carry the possibility of naming, include:
Named Endowed Lecture ($50,000)
We run a seminar series where we invite well-known scientists to visit UNLV and bring us up-to-date on key recent developments in personalized medicine. Naming of the seminar series is also available.
Named Undergraduate Summer Fellowship ($100,000)
At UNLV, we have many undergraduate students that are interested in a career in research and/or medicine. These fellowships will be awarded to our best students to allow them time to focus on their research training, gaining unique experience while working directly in their field. This research experience can be considered one of the best values in higher education.
Named Endowed Graduate Fellowship ($750,000)
Graduate students often have to spend time teaching laboratory courses to help pay their way through graduate school. Research graduate fellowships will be awarded to our best students and help them focus on their research.
Named Personalized Medicine Research Endowment ($100,000)
These endowments provide stable funds for a researcher who has achieved excellence in their scientific studies, and helps their research by providing consistent funding for supplies, equipment, and student support, as well as funding faculty time to work on a high-impact project.
Named Endowed Personalized Medicine Chair ($1,000,000)
These donations are for an established professor to fund high risk high-impact projects with the potential to advance our knowledge in the area of personalized medicine.
Annual Retreat Sponsorship ($2,500 and up)
Ideal for commercial sponsors, these donations help to bring together scientists and the community in an annual research event. There are also opportunities for named posters and talk awards for students.
Planned Giving
A gift over time can provide continued support for a research period. For example, a planned gift could help support such activities as funding the entire academic journey of a Ph.D. student, or a clinical trial where we plan to sequence several genomes over a multiyear period as patients are recruited.
For more information on planned gifts, please contact Bud Beekman at the UNLV Foundation, at 702-895-2841 or harry.beekman@unlv.edu.
Named Endowed Institute ($5,000,000)
Please contact Scott Roberts if you are interested in a large contribution and would like the legacy of having the institute named after you or a loved one.
In biomedicine, many scientists devote their lives to advancing science. This has paid off in a big way. At NIPM, we’re standing on the very frontiers of biomedicine, where the possibility of having better health for everyone, for longer periods of life, is becoming more real every moment. Help us change the human journey. Please consider a gift to NIPM today.
A Partial List of What Your Gift Makes Possible
| Item |
Amount |
| Lab Materials |
$50-100 |
| Chemicals |
$50-500 |
| Agarose for DNA gels (A matrix material used to separate DNA for analysis)
|
$250 |
| PCR kit (A kit with enzymes and reagents to take a single molecule of DNA and amplify it to make billions upon billions of copies) |
$250 |
| DNA Purification Kit (A kit to purify DNA from a sample, such as blood or saliva that can then be analyzed) |
$250 |
| Exome Capture Kit (A kit used to select the most important part of a genome so that it can be sequenced)
|
$200 |
| Exome Sequence (Sequencing of the most important part of the genome where most variants associated with human health are found) |
$800 |
| Equipment |
| Centrifuge (A machine that spins samples at many times the force of gravity used to purify molecules like DNA)
|
$10,000 |
| PCR Machine (A machine used to make copies of DNA)
|
$6,000 |
| Superlow Lab Freezer (A very cold freezer used to store clinical specimens) |
$9,000 |
| Service Contract for Sequencing Machine |
$10-25,000/year |
| MiSeq DX Sequencing Machine
|
$125,000 |
| NextSeq Sequencing Machine
|
$250,000 |
| HiSeq DNA Sequencing Machine (An exome is the part of a persons genome where all mutations occur. Each machine scales to sequence more exomes. The MiSeq can sequence one exome/day, the NextSeq can sequence 40 exomes/day, the HiSeq can sequence 80 exomes/day, and the HiSeq X Ten can sequence 200 exomes/day)
|
$750,000 |
| HiSeq xTen Sequencing Machine |
$10,000,000 |
| Students and Personnel |
| Undergraduate Fellowship
|
$5,000/year |
| Graduate Fellowship
|
$30,000/year |
| Research Technician
|
$35,000/year |
| Endowments |
| Named Endowed Lecture
|
$125,000 |
| Named Research Endowment
|
$100,000 and up |
| Named Graduate Fellowship
|
$750,000 |
| Named Undergraduate Fellowship
|
$100,000 |
| Named Endowed Chair
|
$1,000,000 |
| Named Institute
|
$5,000,000 |
