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The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute is a uniquely special institution, where state-of-the-art tools of drug discovery are available to bold thinkers willing to cross disciplines and attempt the seemingly impossible. When you make a gift to the institute, you support science, and the quest for a healthier future.
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The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology advances human health through biomedical research, drug discovery and clinical studies, while providing outstanding educational opportunities to inspire and train the next generation of scientists.
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Donors and scientists are working together to cultivate scientific innovation as they tackle medicine’s toughest challenges and train a new generation of explorers.
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Our scientists have created more than 170 families of patents on their inventions in the campus’ first 18 years. Your gift could help inspire the next invention!
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Our scientists have helped develop potential new treatments for aggressive cancers, ALS, forms of muscular dystrophy, brain degenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, rare genetic diseases, autism, addiction and more. Your gift could help ignite the next quest for a cure.
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The 2025 Innovation Lectures
Please join us for two inspiring and enlightening lectures as The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute’s 2025 Innovation Lectures series explores brain health.
THE WERTHEIM UF SCRIPPS 2024 innovation lectures
Outsmarting Cancer
On January 17, 2024, cancer researchers gathered with members of the community for an inspirational evening devoted to the solving challenges of cancer, a diagnosis received by nearly 2 million people a year in the United States.
Building the innovation ecosystem
Innovating for Cures
At “Innovating for Cures,” innovators, philanthropists and venture capital investors discussed what’s required to accelerate biomedical research advances out of the lab and into the clinic.
PHILAnthropy in action
Champions of the Green
The BallenIsles Men’s Golf Association hosted their annual prostate cancer golf tournament on March 6. It was the 12th year they have raised funds for research at the institute.
Celbrating Our Donors
In MEMORIUM
Leadership in the Fight Against Cancer
Jerry Blumberg chaired the the BallenIsles Men’s Golf Association Prostate Cancer Tournament for five years, benefitting research on an important men’s health issue.
In Memorium
Remembering Alex Dreyfoos, Jr.
He brought color to our lives in multiple ways, from motion pictures to aspirational science.
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