Stewardship Mid-Year Thank You

THANK YOU for your partnership and belief in our mission.

Together, we will continue bettering the lives of all who entrust us with their care.

CHANGING THE WORLD OF CANCER RESEARCH

At the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center, our diverse team of medical professionals and scientists aim to transform the standard of care for cancer patients and produce the lifesaving treatments our patients need.

As our dedicated faculty push the boundaries of cancer research, we are eternally grateful for the support from our donors, who have ensured that this research continues.

Most recently, faculty have gained momentum on improving cancer diagnostic testing and measuring guidelines through studies aimed at cultivating more accurate tumor grading, imaging, and diagnostic methods.

Our investigators aim to share this knowledge with the world to ensure that no patient is left without answers.

MEETING

THE NEEDS OF OUR LITTLE VICTORS The University of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital recognizes that every child who comes to the hospital is unique in their own way, and often at a critical developmental age.

Donations to Mott support the visionary care initiatives developed by our physicians, nurses, and care teams.

Donor funding supports many patient care and education programs, including a recent update to all of our accessible mobile video game carts.

It also allows us to address specific needs, such as purchasing a lung simulator to improve training for our respiratory specialists and weighted blankets to help our faculty develop a weight-based practice guideline for patients of all ages.

LOOKING

TOWARD A BRIGHT FUTURE FOR ADDICTION TREATMENT With support from our donors, Michigan Medicine has created the U-M Addiction Center Innovation Catalyst Awards.

The work of our 2021 recipients focused on the psychosocial and neural factors associated with substance use risk and resilience among adolescents and young adults.

By taking pictures of the brain in various stages using fMRI machines, addiction specialists are able to give feedback to patients on how to manage their addiction and increase their ability to self-moderate.

This new way of approaching addiction has the potential to save hundreds of lives and change the way we treat addiction.

DEVELOPING LONG-TERM EYE PROTECTION

The University of Michigan Health W.K. Kellogg Eye Center is home to some of the nation’s top ophthalmologists and vision researchers.

With donor support, our teams of investigators are able to propel cutting-edge research and enable faculty at Kellogg to continue finding more effective treatments and, hopefully, cures for eye diseases.

One of our top faculty members recently conducted the first ever study to develop the next generation of novel muscle activators, and their ability to provide protection to cells during retinal stress in an effort to prevent longterm eye damage. This study has paved the way for more financial awards to help continue this crucial research.

CREATING

ATHLETIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL ABILITIES The University of Michigan Adaptive and Inclusive Sports Experience (UMAISE) is a one-of-a-kind program with a mission to cultivate an environment for people of all abilities to grow not only physically, but also socially and emotionally.

Donor support ensures that our programs have the necessary resources and equipment to be safe, fully functional, and accessible to all.

During the pandemic, philanthropy allowed us to launch virtual programming and expand our network by becoming a chapter of Move United, the largest adaptive sports organization in the United States.

PROPELLING GROUNDBREAKING RESEARCH

Michigan Medicine is nationally recognized as one of the largest and most well-established digestive health and liver disease programs in the country, and we are deeply grateful to our donors for their dedication to our work.

Cell sequencing methods can cost thousands of dollars, but are critical for understanding cancer cells. Because of donor support, our labs became the first to conduct single cell RNA sequencing of human tumor cells to determine the biologically important genetic characteristics of these cells.

The results of the study provided necessary insight into how some cancer develops more aggressively in certain patients.

CREATING

A NEW LANGUAGE FOR SEIZURE PREDICTIONS The Michigan Medicine Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery consist of a team of more than 70 nationally-recognized neurologists and neurosurgeons.

Leading the country in research, our multidisciplinary faculty dedicate their efforts to better understanding epilepsy and transforming the standard of care for our patients.

Recently, our neurologists developed a new shared language known as a Taxonomy of Seizure Dynamics (TSD) to better predict if a seizure is on the way and how the seizure will react to various conditions.

This language has been shared internationally, putting Michigan Medicine at the forefront of epilepsy research and care.

THANK YOU