Permanent Endowed Funds
Funds established as of April 1, 2009
Endowment funding is essential to keeping our research and clinical programs moving forward to find cures and save lives. Distributions provide flexible resources for chairholders. These resources allow doctors and scientists to develop and manage their programs and to take advantage of emerging opportunities. Thank you to the following donors for ensuring that the most promising ideas have the opportunity to flourish — and that Roswell Park can continue to attract and retain the brightest minds in the field.
Named Endowed Chairs: $1.5 million+
- The Lawrence P. and Joan Castellani Family Chair in Dermatology (held by Allan R. Oseroff, MD, PhD)
- The Garman Family Chair in Cell Stress Biology (held by Andrei V. Gudkov, PhD, DSci)
- The Katherine Anne Gioia Chair in Cancer Medicine (held by Alex Adjei, MD, PhD)
- The Barbara and George Hyde Endowed Chair in Radiation Medicine (held by Michael R. Kuettel, MD, PhD, MBA)
- The Jacobs Family Chair in Immunology (held by Kelvin Lee, MD)
- The Waldemar J. Kaminski Chair in Pediatrics (held by Martin L. Brecher, MD)
- The M&T Bank Endowed Chair in Cancer Research (held by Thomas B. Tomasi, MD, PhD)
- The John and Santa Palisano Chair in Cancer Genetics (held by John K. Cowell, PhD)
- The Robert, Ann and Lew Wallace Chair in Translational Research (held by Candace S. Johnson, PhD)
Endowed Professorships: $750,000 +
- The Dr. William Huebsch Professorship in Immunology (held by Elizabeth Repasky, PhD)
- The Dr. Robert P. Huben Professorship in Urologic Oncology (held by Robert P. Huben, MD)
Endowed Professorships: $500,000 +
- The M. Steven Piver, MD Endowed Professorship in Gynecological Oncology (held by Kunle O. Odunsi, MD, PhD)
Endowed Graduate Student Fellowships: $500,000 +
- The Rita DeRose Endowed Education Fellowship Fund
- The Dr. Edwin A. Mirand & Edwin M. Frantz Endowed Fellowship Fund
- The Scott & Henderson Endowed Fellowship Fund
Endowed Funds: $500,000+
- Carly’s Club Endowment Fund for Pediatric Cancer
- The Wegmans Child Life Endowment Fund
Endowed Funds: $250,000+
- The Honorable Dolores Denman Endowed Fund for Gastric Cancer Research
- The Friends of Children with Cancer Endowment Fund
- The Dennis Szefel, Jr. Endowed Fund for Leukemia Research
- The Wilson & Dorothy VanNorstrand Endowment Fund for Cancer Research
Endowed Funds: $100,000+
- The Rex E. Ballantine, Jr. Endowment for Lung Cancer Research
- Buffalo Sabres Alumni Endowed Fund for Breast Cancer Risk Assessment & Prevention
- The Cancer Resource Center Endowment Fund
- The James L. Desiderio Endowed Fund for Esophageal Cancer Research
- The David Jay Dougherty Memorial Fund for Lung Cancer Detection & Treatment
- The Sandra C. Genco Endowment Fund for Excellence in Nursing
- The Ann and Tracy Hartman Endowment Fund for Cancer Research
- The Waldemar J. Kaminski Park Endowment
- The Betty Lee Endowment for Leukemia Research
- The Sandra F. Lippes Gynecologic Oncology Endowment Fund
- The Leonard S. LoVullo Endowment for Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma Research
- The Barbara & Norman Oliver Endowment for Melanoma Research
- The Pioneer Fund for Biomedical Research (HWI/RPCI Collaborative Research)
- The Rustum Family Endowment for Education of Minority Students
- The Putter and Shantabai Shenoy Endowment for Diagnostic Radiology Training
Endowed Funds: $50,000+
- The Thomas C. Atwell, Jr. Endowed Childhood Cancer Research Fund
- The Lisa Carbone Endowed Fund for Breast Cancer Research
- The Jean Graham Ennis Endowment Fund for Cancer Research
- The Robert & Martha Fierle Endowment for Lung Cancer Research
- The Mary Deane Freeland Endowed Pediatric Research Fund
- The Sandra F. Lippes Cancer Research Fund
- The Matthew & Julie Endowment for Gastrointestinal Cancer Research
- The Robert E. Rich, Sr. Endowment for the Head & Neck Center (in memory of Dr. John M. Lore, Jr.)
- The Dr. Kumao Sako Endowment for Head & Neck Cancers
- The Linda Scime Endowment Fund for Brain Tumor Research
- The Andrew & Mary Scoma Endowment for Head & Neck Cancer Research and Diagnostic Imaging (Nuclear Medicine)
- The Stefanie Spielman Endowed Fund for Breast Cancer Support Programs
- The J. Barnett Woodruff Family Endowment for Gastrointestinal Cancer Research
- The Mary Lou McNamar Woodside Endowed Fund for Brain Cancer Research
- The Matthew P. Zaleski Endowed Fund for Gastric Cancer Research
Endowed Funds: $25,000+
- The Frank & Jean Acciari Endowment Fund for Melanoma Research in the Department of Immunology
- The Patricia L. Banks Endowment for Lung Cancer Research
- The Norman Bate Endowment for Prostate Cancer Research
- The Eileen Beauchamp Endowed Fund for Ovarian Cancer Research (Gilda Radner Familial Ovarian Cancer Registry)
- The Nancy C. Cully Endowed Fund for Leukemia Research
- The Joseph and Kathleen Curatolo Endowed Fund for Child Life
- The Nicholas Dusenberry Endowment for Melanoma Research
- The Dale J. Engelhart Endowed Fund for Multiple Myeloma Research
- The William J. Ertel, Jr. Endowed Fund for Lung Cancer Research
- The Fasolino Family Endowment Fund for Pediatric Cancer Research
- The Donald A. Gage Patient Benefit Endowment Fund
- The Joseph L. and Emily K. Gidwitz Endowment for Cancer Prevention & Outreach
- The Gratwick Family Endowed Fund for Cancer Research
- Lisa's Legacy Endowed Fund for Colon Cancer Research
- Dr. Enrico Mihich Lecture Series
- The McDonald-Miller Family Endowment for Skin Cancer Research
- The Laura and Arthur Moran Golden Anniversary Cancer Research Fund (Mesothelioma & Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma)
- The Richard B. Morchan Endowment for Gastrointestinal and Esophageal Cancer Research
- The Amber Lynn Osgood Endowment for Sarcoma Research
- The Kathleen L. Peterson Endowed Fund for Gastrointestinal Cancer Research
- The Helene & Edward I. Seeberg Endowed Prostate Cancer Research Fund
- The Heidi Schmidtke Endowed Fund for Leukemia Research
- The Dr. Thomas C. Sist Endowed Fund for Pain Medicine Studies
- The Anna C. Smerka Endowment for Cancer Prevention & Outreach
- The Joseph Takats Family Endowed Fund for Pediatric Programs
- The Dr. Leonard Weiss Lecture Endowment (on Cancer Metastasis)
- The Rose Whalen Endowed Fund for Bladder Cancer Research


