Robert W Woodruff Health Sciences Center Fund Inc

Woodruff Fund grants supported strategic academic and research initiatives in the medical institutions that make up Emory's Woodruff Health Sciences Center. Significant support during this fiscal year was directed to Emory's School of Medicine to recruit a new leader for the school's Pathology Department and to support programs in the Office of Student Success. Significant new investments were made in a comprehensive digital transformation plan for the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, a new Global Diabetes Research Center and in Emory's Center for New Medicines. The Woodruff Fund also invested in plans to develop maternal health programs in partnership with Morehouse School of Medicine and Grady Health System. Additional support was provided for strategic investments in Emory's Rollins School of Public Health; the Yerkes Primate Research Center; the Georgia Clinical and Translational Sciences Alliance; and Emory's Immunology and Vaccine Research Center. A significant portion of the distributions to Emory's Woodruff Health Sciences Center are used to pay for facilities, including Emory's biomedical research facilities and School of Medicine building.

The Woodruff Fund oversees a separate investment account intended to grow research capacity for the Emory + Children's Pediatric Research Institute. In this fiscal year, the Fund disbursed $6 million toward a multi-year plan to recruit pediatric investigators focused on childhood cancer, cardiac and brain medicine, Sickle Cell disease, and Cystic Fibrosis.