Dr. Vicki Simms and her husband, Ron, learned firsthand about the struggles that cancer patients and their families…
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A Catalyst for Collaboration
UCLA’s experts are no strangers to working together. Now a generous gift has taken their teamwork to another…
A Continuum of Care
From early in their lives to life’s last moments, patients of all ages benefit from all UCLA does…
A Dedication to Education
When a philanthropist and a leading medical school at a top-tier university come together, the future gets even…
Commitment, Cont.
Melvin and Bren Simon created the Melvin and Bren Simon Charitable Foundation to support medical centers that strive…
Doubling Down on Depression
In the fall of 2013, Laurie Davis Gray lost her son, Max, to depression. He was 25. Max…
Gifts to Better Brain Health
When Laurie and Steven Gordon care about issues, they invest in the people who are working to address…
Generosity for Geriatric Medicine
Patients of every age find care and comfort at UCLA. But as the baby boomer generation grows older,…
Great Minds Gala
Hundreds of guests of the Friends of the Semel Institute gathered at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel on April…
A Sound Plan for Greater Health
A new partnership is working out well. Sound Body Sound Mind has joined UCLA Health to fight childhood obesity and…
Honoring a Legacy. Memorializing a Life.
Judi Kaufman lived with brain cancer for 18 years. She didn’t battle it so much as embrace it,…
Help for Those Who Need It Most
Patients routinely are referred to UCLA hospitals because of the system’s expertise in complex care and its commitment…
In the Right Hands
For two years, Jeff Raich saw specialists all over the United States for a mysterious and frightening lung…
A Lifelong Vision — An Apt Legacy
A leading university like UCLA sees its researchers transform visionary ideas into life-changing reality. For more than 50…
Hope for Healing
Across the country, 250,000 people live with spinal cord injury. The paralysis that often results has been thought…
Laughter and the Best Medicine
“Nice guys finish first,” comedian, writer, and actor Garry Shandling famously said. “If you don’t know that, then…
Learning to Last a Lifetime
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”– Albert Einstein A passion for learning infuses…
A Place of Hope
UCLA’s contributions to community are illuminating problems and bringing solutions to light. Stuart House, with its collaborative efforts…
Life is On
Revlon’s new brand platform, Love is On, is about love and positivity, and it encompasses the company’s new philanthropic…
Lighting the Way for Child Health
A recent evening illuminated — and lent support to — the work of UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital and…
Magnanimity Meets a Great Need
Every ten seconds, someone in the U.S. goes to the emergency room with a migraine-related complaint. Migraine, a…
More than One Kind of Donor
UCLA’s Dr. Ronald W. Busuttil and his team have performed more than 6,000 liver transplants — the most…
When Minutes Matter
The phrase “time is of the essence” is never more apt than when it applies to getting treatment…
Philanthropy with Foresight
“Visionary philanthropy can alter the course of science,” says Dr. John Mazziotta, vice chancellor, UCLA Health Sciences, and…
Off and Running
When UCLA publicly launched the Centennial Campaign for UCLA in May 2014, what we really kicked off was…
Spark Hope
An unprecedented problem mandates an unprecedented response, one that employs a vast array of contributions. UCLA Depression Grand…
Sleep on It
Sleep disorder illness, which has reached epidemic proportions, can affect overall health, safety, and quality of life. Snoring,…
Seeing to the Future of Medicine
The intersection of Le Conte and Tiverton Avenues in Westwood is now also a critical juncture in medical…
Revolutionizing Cancer Research
Sean Parker founded music-sharing site Napster and was the first president of social media giant Facebook. It only…
Providing People with Disability the Ability to Thrive
UCLA and its donors never shy away from a challenge. One example is how they are leading the…
Breathing New Life into Lung Research
When you talk to Linda and Mike Keston, you hear the words “lucky” and “grateful” a lot. And…
Blazing a Trail for Future Bruins
In the late 1940s, many saw the West Coast as a scientific desert compared to the East, home…
Bridges to Opportunity
Sometimes the only thing standing between ambition and an opportunity is a solid bridge. At UCLA, David Geffen…
An Inveterate Advocate for Veterans
After serving their country, many veterans return to the civilian life with scars — physical, mental, and emotional….
Background Work
Every day in their laboratories, UCLA health sciences researchers demonstrate dedication and determination in their quests for discoveries…
A Spectrum of Support
You can almost sense the synapses firing across campus after James L. Easton’s ’59 recent $36 million gift…
A Stars and Stripes Studded Event
Some anniversary celebrations are more special than others. Saluting ten years of UCLA Health’s Operation Mend with patients,…
Stroke Care on the Move
It’s hit the road! Previously you read about the UCLA Arline and Henry Gluck Stroke Rescue Program, established…
Students Are Donors, Too
Navjot Sandhu ’15, a neuroscience major and research assistant in the UCLA Semel Institute focusing on autistic and…
Taking a Stand Against Depression
What starts at UCLA spreads hope. From breakthrough research to new technologies, discoveries developed on campus reach communities…
The Circus Came to Town
The circus came to town and left $2.9 million for the Children’s Discovery and Innovation Institute at UCLA…
Value Added: Graduate Scholarships
A message from David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Dean Kelsey Martin Graduate students are integral to…
To Women’s Health
UCLA is committed to equity in health care delivery, and philanthropy helps make it a reality. Iris Cantor…
Top Talent at the Table
The Centennial Campaign has helped UCLA reach a lot of milestones leading up to the big one: the…
Children Who Thrive
Mattel, Inc. started making children happy with its creations in 1945, just a few years before the founding…
Key Partners for Key Priorities
For more than 50 years, with gifts to multiple areas, Eugene Rosenfeld ’56 and Maxine Rosenfeld have made…