Every Gift Tells a Story

A friend of Duke Health understands firsthand the struggle of being overweight. “Being overweight comes with a myriad of medical, physical, and emotional problems,” said the anonymous donor, of Rye Brook, New York. “For me, it was about my own self-esteem and wanting to improve my health.” 

The choice to become a Duke Children's donor launched George Grody down a path of giving that recently topped $1 million.

A Duke Children's clinic finds the perfect match in a supporter with a passion for helping those who need it most.

Duke Health, in partnership with the Durham County Department of Public Health, has been awarded a grant totaling $750,000 from The Duke Endowment.

In 2008, Cynthia Toth, MD, set out to develop optical coherence tomography (OCT), a technology that bounces light waves off different parts of the eye, providing a finely detailed look inside the eye’s tissues for pediatric use. She is now recognized as the founder of pediatric OCT. For infants and children.

In 2021, a baby boy named Easton Sinnamon was the first person in the world to receive a combination heart transplant and allogeneic processed thymus tissue implantation. Six months later, a video showed Easton smiling and playing in a high chair, and tests indicated that the processed thymus tissue was working: building the T cells needed for a well-functioning immune system.

Carol Deane advances her long history of support for Duke by establishing a Presidential Distinguished Chair

Gift by Marion Stein, MD, to support research and faculty at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute.

A new gift from the R.J. Samulski Innovation Foundation has endowed a professorship in the Department of Radiation Oncology.

The Robert and Lisa Margolis Family Foundation has given $10 million to Duke University towards the Margolis Center for Health Policy.