UW Carbone Innovation Fund

As a unique investment vehicle to accelerate UW Carbone Cancer Center’s mission and elevate its stature as a world-class cancer center, the UW Carbone Cancer Center Innovation Fund provides unrestricted funding to strengthen operations, expand scientific capabilities, support faculty recruitment, and advance the development of innovative products and approaches to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer.

With an initial goal to raise $20 million in charitable support in its first phase, the UW Carbone Innovation Fund is a key driver of UW Carbone’s strategic plan and will provide seed funding for mission-critical projects that advance the most promising new ideas, enhance resources available to researchers, and respond to innovative and emerging needs.

In partnership with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), this funding opportunity provides early access to participate in the ownership of any start-up biotechnology companies supported by WARF Ventures to further develop and commercialize technologies arising out of UW Carbone’s research.

As key partners in the transformative work being conducted at Wisconsin’s only National Cancer Institute–designated comprehensive cancer center, donors to the Innovation Fund will join a community of the cancer center’s most generous and visionary investors.

Access the UW Carbone Innovation Fund member only website, here.

Members as of December 31, 2021

  • John and Kimberly Leja

  • Lemon Brothers*

  • Todd and Shari Nelson

  • Ann Palmenberg

  • Tom and Margaret Pyle

  • Fred Robertson and Sheryl Blair

  • Peter and Colleen Schmitz

  • John and Mary Schroeder

  • Ron Skoronski

  • Sam Soffa

  • Linda and John Hughes and Anne and Tim Connor, Malcolm Stack Foundation

  • Chuck and Denise Steinhauer

  • Mary K. Strachota

  • John and Patricia Zimbrick

  • Tom and Karen Falk

  • William and Signe Buchholz*

  • Greg and Michelle Gard, Garding Against Cancer*

  • Melita Grunow*

  • Andy and Susan North, Andy North and Friends Initiative*

  • Norm and Barbara Berven

  • Rich and Sue Clack*

  • Gertrude Deinlein

  • Roger and Gloria DeMeritt

  • John and Jeanne Flesch

  • Gialamas Family

  • Christian and Carol Rosenstock, Gunning for Hope

  • Forrest Hartmann

  • Mark and Bonnie Huetten

  • Dan and Lena Kelly

  • Donald and JoAnne Krause

  • David and Lois Fritz* Donald and JoAnne Krause

  • Estate of Eldrid T. Olson in honor of Stephen Michael Olson

*Denotes members of the Director’s Circle

To learn more about advancing innovative cancer research and treatment at the UW Carbone Cancer Center through a gift to the UW Carbone Innovation Fund, or to request a current UW Carbone Innovation Fund quarterly impact report, please contact Valerie Zibell at valerie.zibell@supportuw.org or 608-234-0627.