W&S Partners in Discovery
Over the past 25 years, Women & Science Partners in Discovery donors have raised more than $50 million in support of talented women pursuing careers in the sciences at Rockefeller University. Supporters provide crucial funding for women graduate fellows and postdoctoral investigators, faculty recruitment, and other important resources for women scientists at the university.
In 2019, Women & Science established the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Women’s Entrepreneurship Fund (Kellen WEF), a new leading-edge program that to encourage more women to develop the translational and entrepreneurial potential of their research at the university.
Women & Science also recognizes the Bulgari Corporation of America for its leadership grant in 2020 that created The Bulgari Women & Science Fund to Accelerate COVID-19 Research. This three-year grant includes fellowships for women graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and supports the development and clinical testing of new coronavirus therapeutics, including drugs and treatments to help combat SARS-CoV-2.
2022–2023 W&S Donors
Visionary Laureate ($250,000+)
Anonymous†
Denise and Michael Kellen Foundation†
Centennial Laureate ($100,000+)
Miriam O. Adelson, M.D.
Katherine Farley
Denise and Michael Kellen Foundation
Elena and Roger Matthews†
Simons Foundation International
Lulu C. Wang
Laureate ($50,000+)
Marlene Hess
Rebecca A. John†
Visionary ($25,000+)
Debra Black
Caroline Rivers Curry
Margo Doyle and Sunil Dhaliwal
Molly Ford
Mary P. Moran
O’Neill Family Charitable Trust
Robin Chemers Neustein
David M. Newberger‡
Sydney R. and Stanley S. Shuman
Sy Syms Foundation
Pathfinder ($10,000+)
1919 Investment Counsel, LLC
Judith Roth Berkowitz
Emily Chen Carrera
Judith M. Carson
Daniella Lipper Coules
Cheryl Cohen Effron
Carol B. Einiger
Lydia A. Forbes
The Glickenhaus Foundation
Agnes Gund
Diane K. Halvorsen
Jessica Hopfield, Ph.D.†
Jessica Hopfield and Jim Cleary
Sandra J. Horbach
Amabel James
Rebecca A. John
Joelle M. Kayden
Martha B. Kellner
Dr. and Mrs. Henry Kissinger
Phyllis (Patti) A. Klein
Lianne Lazetera
Karen M. Levy
Evelyn G. Lipper, M.D.
Joyce H. Lowinson, M.D.
Elena A. Matthews
Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani
Nancy C. Paduano
Virginia Pellicci, M.D.
Marnie S. Pillsbury
Jennifer Scully-Lerner
The Starr Foundation
Mary S. Sykes
Paula Volent
Julie Wilcox
Pioneer ($5,000+)
Holly S. Andersen, M.D.
Gail and Chuck Caulkins
Gail and Chuck Caulkins‡
Paula K. Cleary
Jane Frank Katcher, M.D.
Kimberly and Jeffrey Greenberg
Debra S. Heinrich, Ed.D.
Sarah F. Leibowitz, Ph.D.
Teena L. Lerner, Ph.D.
Susan M. Lyne
Kathy Mele
Pamela Michaelcheck
Katherine S. Overlock
Victoria Perla and Paul Guyardo
Béatrice Philippe
Gail Hunt Reeke
Sara Lee Schupf
Anita Volz Wien
Investigator ($2,500+)
Taffy Benjamin
Mary D. Brust, R.N.
Abby Joseph Cohen
Hélène Comfort
Cynthia Young Eberstadt
Linda Fan
Susan C. Frunzi, Esq.
Barbara Georgescu
Jean D. Hamilton
Caroline Howard Hyman
Elizabeth Keegan
Richard and Deborah Lifton
Susan Mark
The V & L Marx Foundation
Teri Volpert
Janet C. Ross
Anne R. Stevens
Cynthia M. Whitehead
Carolyn and Malcolm Wiener
Friend ($1,000+)
Anonymous
Betsy S. Barbanell
Lauren Belfer
Ludmila S. Bidwell
Laura Maioglio Blobel
Marilyn Breslow
Danielle Capalino
Lisa Colby-Jones
Drs. Bobbi and Barry Coller
Ellen Corwin
Cynthia Foster Curry
Barbara K. Debs
Jackie Drexel
Loren Eng
Roz Feder M.D., Ph.D.
Geraldine Dietz Fox
Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D.
Lee White Galvis
Milly Glimcher
Judith S. Goldstein
Joan Shapiro Green
Jean D. Hamilton†
Jane Hoffman
Kristin L. Hohmann
Bonnie L. Johnson
Sylvia R. Karasu, M.D.
Patricia Kemp
Susan Lowry
Janine Luke
Linda R. Macaulay
Elizabeth Marren
Liz Peay McCreery
Drs. Svetlana Mojsov and
Michel Nussenzweig
Elizabeth P. Munson
Bettye M. Musham
New York Stem Cell Foundation
Harriet S. Rabb
Jean and Douglas Renfield-Miller
Sandra and Richard Rippe
Donna and Barnett Rukin
Katherine Sieh-Takata
Maria Siff-Yang
Carla H. Skodinski
Ann M. Spruill
Eliot Stewart
Amoli Vad
Elizabeth R. Varet
Hermine Warren
Evelene Wechsler
Maud I. Welles
Marcia S. Wilson
Yvonne Wu
Judy Francis Zankel
Xiaokui Zhang, Ph.D.
Silvia Zoullas
Contributor ($500+)
Anonymous
Noreen Buckfire
Nancy M. Buckman
Amy Cammann Cholnoky
Antoinette Guerrini-Maraldi
Alice B. Hicks
Kathryn Holmes
Bruce Krueger
Mary L. Ledbetter, Ph.D., ‘72
Ilene J. Leff
Claudette Mayer
Marcia A. McLean
Barbara Medaugh
Susan R. Palm
Catherine K. Price
Elizabeth M. Sherman
Patricia Smith
Mrs. Frederick A. Terry, Jr.
Supporter (Up to $499)
Anne Addison
Anonymous
Linda L. Anstendig
R. Ellen Avellino
Sandra Berlstein
Marilyn Budzanoski
Phyllis Chernin
Maryelizabeth Dannhauser
Louise Dembeck
Edith M. de Montebello
Mary Donley
Pamela Drexel
Arlene Ferris
Merrie S. Frankel
Teresa Gaudio
Julia Herr
Priscilla Kauff
Catherine A. Kerr
Annetta Kimball, M.D.
Ilene Leff
Wendy Leon
Gloria and Harry Lerner
Loretta McCarthy
Margaret MacDonald, M.D., Ph.D.
Robert McGrath
Cynthia T. Mills‡
Marcia R. Mishaan
Maggi Pack
Shelia Palevsky, M.D., M.P.H., and
Joe Ingram
Elaine Papadimitriou
Nancy J. Phillips
Yvette Pomerantz
Ann Rakoff
Stacy Rosenwaks
Thomas P. Sakmar
Marylou Selo
Ilene Solomon
Sharon Spaight
Silda Wall Spitzer
Michele Sterner
Ann Sullivan
Penelope Taylor
Susan Weingast
Amy Wilkerson
Mary Yedlin
Michele Zwrin
Gifts as of June 5, 2023
† Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Women’s Entrepreneurship Fund
‡ Mary Jeanne Kreek W&S Fellowship
