People & Programs | |  | | | Make a ConnectionContact Jeff Nearhoof by e-mail or phone at 312.503.3088 to discuss naming opportunities in support of research at the Feinberg School of Medicine. |
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Professorships are vital tools in recruiting and retaining our distinguished faculty members. Created in perpetuity, professorships represent the highest honor Northwestern can bestow upon its physician-scientists. Full Professorships, created with endowed gifts of $2 million or more, signify excellence and prestige for you, the donor, professorship holder, and the honoree. By providing protected time, named professorships allow our most talented physician-scientists to conduct research that offers the greatest potential for new discoveries. Research Professorships are created with endowed gifts of $1 million or more. They support the research and teaching activities of tenure-track junior faculty whose work shows extraordinary promise, providing an important means of retaining and rewarding valued faculty members while supporting groundbreaking research. Fellows are physicians who have graduated fom medical school, completed residency training, and are now pursuing additional training and research in a particular area of medical expertise. Named fellowships also beget named fellows—for as long as a fellow is the beneficiary of a named fellowship, she carries the honor in title as said fellow. Fellowship funds are vital to ensuring that future generations of specialists continue to drive research at Northwestern University. Immediate-use gifts in support of fellowships can create named funds to help fund novel scientific studies, facilitate participation at national and international conferences, and subsidize salaries. Endowed fellowship funds enable a broad-based clinical experience and rigorous research training for our physicians. Endowed fellowship funds ensure a new core of Northwestern-trained physicians and researchers, infusing new knowledge into patient care and research. Immediate-use research funds allow researchers, departments, and divisions to designate support for current projects. Your contributions can be directed to an individual faculty investigator or a collaborative team of scientists working together to advance treatment options for specific diseases or conditions. Income from permanently endowed research funds provide support to faculty members who are pursuing promising studies that may not have captured the support of extramural granting agencies. These research studies depend upon private philanthropy to explore new paths not yet accepted by traditional funding sources. | 
