What is the AST Annual Giving Campaign?

The AST Annual Giving Campaign was established to build an Endowment to fund programs that are core to the Society's charitable mission in perpetuity.

100% of your contribution goes directly to the Endowment Fund which continues to support promising transplantation research and the training of the next generation of talented transplant professionals through the annual AST Fellows Symposium.

The Impact of Giving

Every gift makes a difference. Your gift will help increase the AST Endowment, which now supports the AST Grants Program. Past recipients confirm the critical role of AST's endowment-funded grants:

“The AST Grant supplied critical support during my early academic career to assist in maintaining and evolving basic research efforts.”

- Mark Rigby, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics & Surgery, Emory University, 2008 Basic Science Faculty Development Grant Recipient.

“The AST Grant helped me establish myself in this field as a scientist who can contribute to the understanding of biological mechanisms of disease as well as to improve outcomes in clinical patients”

- Ji Haofeng, MD, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, 2008 Basic Science Fellowship Grant recipient.

“The AST Grant provided me with the necessary time to develop my project and usher it to completion. It helped open doors when I was searching for an attending position.”

- Jennifer Jackson, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatric Nephrology, University of Kentucky, 2008 Clinical Science Fellowship Grant recipient.

I would like to join AST members in supporting the Endowment Fund. How can I contribute?

You can contribute to the Endowment Fund in three ways:

  1. Download the donation form and send it with credit card information or check (made payable to AST) to the AST National Office.
  2. Make a donation online.
  3. If you are an AST member, you can add your contribution to your annual dues invoice or online dues renewal.

Individual Giving Opportunities:

The folloing donors supported the 2010 Share The Beat event. Proceeds from this event were contributed to the AST Endowment.

Alta Partners
Association Headquarters
Astellas
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Bryan Cave, LLP
California Transplant Donor Network
Genentech, A Member of the Roche Group
Genzyme
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital & Stanford Hospital and Clinics
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
Pfizer
Ro*Co Films International
Seedlings Foundation
Universal Green Marketing LLC.

Dr. & Mrs. Donald and Karen Barbour
Mr. & Mrs. Matt and Janice Barger
Dr. Jennifer Brokaw
Mr. Lee Bycel
Mr. Murray Carpenter
Ms. Patricia S. Dinner
Mr. & Mrs. Jake and Fiona Eberts
Mr. & Mrs. Dennis and Pamela Fisco
Mr. & Mrs. John and Laura Fisher
Mr. & Mrs. Bob and Randi Fisher
Mr. Peter Fogarty
Ms. Amy Ford Keohane
Mr. & Mrs. Tom and Liz Hale
Mr. Stephen L. Hermanos
Dr. Maryl R. Johnson
Ms. Catherine Kennedy
Mr. Chapin Koch
Mr. & Mrs. Chip and Tricia Koch
Ms. Amy Larson
Mr. & Mrs. Rodney and Kristin Loo
Mr. David Low
Dr. & Mrs. Joren and Lynn Madsen
Mr. & Mrs. Peter and Lani Melnick
Mr. Paul F. Kramer & Ms. Bonnie G. Ng
Mr. David Sheff and Ms. Karen Barbour
Ms. Julie Parish
Mr. & Mrs. Rich and Nancy Robbins
Mr. & Mrs. Tom and Jessica Rothman
Ms. Roselyne C. Swig
Ms. Susan Swig
Mr. & Mrs. Gary and Christina Tan
Mr. & Mrs. Richard and Jill Tidman
Mr. & Mrs. Chip and Mary Unsworth
Mr. & Mrs. Minott and Ashley Wessinger
Mr. & Mrs. Ted and Lisa Williams
Ms. Ivy Archer Winters

The following individuals declined their honoraria payments and/or gifts. The AST has decided to contribute the corresponding amount of the declined honoraria/gifts to the Endowment Fund. AST is appreciative of the generosity of these members.

Fernando Cosio, MD
Robert Fairchild, MD
Michael G. Ison, MD, MS
Jon Kobashigawa, MD
Deepali Kumar, MD
Roslyn Mannon, MD
Herwig-Ulf Meier-Kriesche, MD
Dorry Segev, MD
Kenneth E. Wood, DO

The AST thanks the following for their contributions to the AST Endowment Fund (1/1/2011 - 9/7/2011):

President's Circle

Robert Rubin, MD

Sustaining Member

IBM Employee Service Center

Benefactor

James S. Allan, MD
Tze-chian Chen
Howard J. Eisen, MD
Don Hricik, MD
Larry B Melton, MD

Patron

Anil Chandraker, MD, FRCP
Roslyn Mannon, MD
Josef Stehlik, MD

Supporter

Yolanda Becker, MD
Lawrence L. Bohannon, MD
David J. Cohen, MD
William T. Kendrick
Anita Saldanha
Rebecca Shilling
Alastair Smith, MB, ChB
Joseph W. Warren, MD

AST Club

Enver Akalin, MD
Angel Carlos Bassols, MD
Balhinder Brar, MD
Abubaker Hassan, MD, FRCPC
Yukihiro Inomata, MD, PhD
Shuji Isaji, MD, PhD
Amy Krauss, PharmD
Eleanor D. Lederer, MD, PhD
Shamkant P. Mulgaonkar, MD, MBBS
John F. Neylan, MD
Su-Kil Park, MD, PhD
Ruth Sapir-Pichhadze, MD, MSc
Jesse Schold, PhD
Terry B. Strom, MD
Hua Yang, MD, PhD