Gifts & Donations

The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences Department of Dermatology, in collaboration with the Pennsylvania Avenue Baptist Church and the National Psoriasis Foundation (NPF), announced a renewed funding commitment of $350,000 from Johnson & Johnson in support of…
GW SMHS Department of Dermatology received $500,000 sponsorship for EACH one TEACH one, or Expanding Access to Comprehensive Health Care, a free teledermatology program for residents of Ward 7 and Ward 8 of Washington, D.C.
Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, and Donna J. Perlin, MD, marked the Perlin Family’s more than a century-long association with the George Washington University (GW) by endowing The Seymour and Ruth Perlin Professorship in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at GW’s School of Medicine and…
Camille Leoni, BS ’21, received the 13th Annual Marilyn J. Koering Award, April 6. The award — named in honor of Marilyn Koering, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Anatomy and Cell Biology, who taught at GW for 34 years — is presented each year to a first-year medical student for their outstanding…
A $1 million gift from Ulvi M. and Reykhan Kasimov seeks to advance development of a new technique that uses RNA transcript levels to identify biomarkers in the blood stream, which can help detect active infections in the body.
The GW Rodham Institute has received a $125,000 gift to support a “Doctors of Tomorrow” program, which exposes Washington, D.C. high school students to health careers. The gift was made by the TD Charitable Foundation, the charitable giving arm of TD Bank.
The GW Institute for Spirituality and Health, housed within the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, has received a $500,000 gift from the Kanarek Family Foundation to support its Interprofessional Spiritual Care Education Curriculum.
The GW Cancer Center is pleased to announce the establishment of the Dr. Cyrus Katzen Family Director of the GW Cancer Center, thanks to a generous gift from GW alumnus and former Board of Trustee member, Jay Katzen, BA ’67, MD ’72. 
The GW Cancer Center unveiled a new state-of-the-art mobile mammography van, known as the GW Mammovan, to provide breast cancer screening to women in the Washington, D.C. region.
In recognition of the treatment Susan received from Siegel, Roger J. and Susan Gendron made a $2.5 million gift to GWCC to establish the Gendron Family Cancer Research Fund. The fund will support basic and translational science research, as well as contribute to pilot research grants for residents…