At GW, physician-scientists play a critical, distinctive role in our ability to perform top-tier research, deliver high-quality patient care to our community, and advance academic medicine.
Philathropic support allows SMHS to attract some of the most talented physician-scientists around the world with the offer of protected time for scientific endeavors and the ability to advance their clinical careers.
NEW ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP – $4 million+
Endowed full professorships create prestigious appointments for the best and brightest clinician-scientists, rewarding their professional contributions, education, and research endeavors. This support also safeguards the funding to continue pioneering efforts in groundbreaking disease treatment and prevention innovations.
ASSOCIATE ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP – $2 million+
With an endowed gift of $2 million, GW can offer partial salary support to one early-career professor, enabling the clinician-scholar to pursue a promising lin of research that aligns with GW’s institutional priorities and clinical centers of excellence.
FACULTY RESEARCH SUPPORT – $500,000+
Support catalyzes novel research, giving investigators crucial opportunities to engage in discovery and innovation, test new concepts, and collect pilot data that enables them to pursue future funding. A foundational gift of $500,000 made over a term of five years provides salary support and supplies for one early career scholar and their research.