Development
Fundraising this year set new heights and we gratefully acknowledge the following
for their major support of our campus expansion for research infrastructure
and education: The Starr Foundation; The Frederick and Nancy DeMatteis Charitable
Trust; Clay Mathematics Institute; Mrs. Leslie C. Quick, Jr. and family; Jeff
Hawkins; Nancy Marks; Laurie Landeau; Eduardo Mestre; The William Stamps Farish
Fund; William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Gladys and Roland Harriman Foundation;
Francis Goelet Trust; Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Lindsay; Mr. and Mrs. Donald Everett
Axinn; Mary D. Lindsay; Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Leeds; The Koshland Foundation;
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Cleary and Edward A. Chernoff.
Private funding is also essential to maintain our vigorous research programs,
enabling successful and innovative projects that are too innovative for public
funding. For this reason, we are especially appreciative to those supporters
who made major gifts in 2005 to our cancer and neuroscience research programs.
We gratefully acknowledge donors of $100,000 or more to our cancer program:
The Simons Foundation; The Karches Foundation for CLL Research; Fannie E. Rippel
Foundation for Ovarian Cancer Research; The Frederick and Nancy DeMatteis Charitable
Trust for Colon Cancer Research; Joan’s Legacy: The Joan Scarangello
Foundation to Conquer Lung Cancer; and The Miracle Foundation.
We also acknowledge the generous support to our neuroscience program including
$100,000+ gifts from: Mr. And Mrs. Theodore R. Stanley for schizophrenia research;
The Swartz Foundation for neuroscience research; The Forrest C. Lattner Foundation
for Schizophrenia Research; The Thomas Hartman Foundation; and Jo-Ellen and
Ira Hazen.
President’s Council
The President’s Council brings together leaders from business, research
and biotechnology who share an interest in science and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s
research. Specifically, Council members support Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Fellows – exceptional young and recently graduated Ph.D. or M.D. students
who perform independent research at Cold Spring Harbor for a period of three
years. This year, President’s Council members raised an impressive $400,000
and established a new record for the annual contributions to this Fund. We
gratefully acknowledge all of the men and women who made this possible on page
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Robertson Research Fund
The Robertson Research Fund has been the primary in-house support for our scientists
for more than three decades. During 2005, Robertson Funds supported research
in the labs of Alea Mills, Cordula Schultz, Leemor Joshua-Tor, Rui-Ming Xu,
and Wolfgang Lukowitz. In addition, the Robertson Fund supported the annual
CSHL In-House Symposium and our programs for Postdoctoral Fellows and Graduate
Students.
Sadly, we lost Carl Schafer this year to cancer. Carl was a long-time financial
advisor to the Robertson family and Chairman of the Robertson Research Fund
Committee here at CSHL. We all appreciated his positive and even-handed approach
to various issues that arose over the years in connection with the management
of the Roberson Research and Maintenance Funds. He represented the Robertson
family well while, at the same time, making it clear that he also had the best
interests of the Laboratory at heart. We are appreciative of all of his efforts
on behalf of Cold Spring Harbor and his years of friendship.
Watson School of Biological Sciences
Support of the Dean’s Chair, fellowships, and lectureships, enable the
Watson School to continue to grow and influence the field of biological sciences.
We appreciate new gifts of $100,000 or more made this year by: The Arnold and
Mabel Beckman Foundation; Curt Englehorn; Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation,
the Lita Annenberg Hazen Foundation and the Starr Foundation.
Dolan DNA Learning Center
Thanks to a very generous gift from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,
progress can continue to be made on the DNALC’s newest addition to their
web portal: Genes to Cognition (G2C) Online: A Network-driven Internet Site
on Modern Brain Research. In addition, the DNALC received significant support
from the Amgen Foundation for the Amgen Leadership Program.
Carnegie Library
In 2005, a grant from the Mellon Foundation provided consultants from two major
library firms to assess our library systems and archival collection and to
recommend software and computer systems to facilitate our digitization project.
In addition, a two-year $500,000 grant, “Preserving the Past and Present,
Looking to the Future: Preserving and Digitizing the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Archives Collections,” from the Macy Foundation will allow us to create
an integrated metadata database to provide worldwide online access to our digitized
collection to scholars, students and all other users. This year, Mila Pollock,
our Librarian and Archivist organized with Darwin Stapleton from the Rockefeller
University and Jan Witkowski, Executive Director of our Banbury Center, an
international archives meeting which was very successful. This meeting discussed
approaches to maintaining archives in the modern electronic age and ways of
funding the process. We also plan to establish a center for the history of
Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at Cold Spring Harbor as part of our archives
program, housing some of the most important archives at a place that has played
a major role in these fields.
Additional Support
The Laboratory was fortunate to receive support for many ongoing projects in
2005 including: a gift from Herbert J. Siegel for the Weghorn House; a gift
from the Francis Goelet Trust for the Francis Goelet Fellowship in Biomathematics;
a gift from the Gerber Foundation for congenital heart disease research; and
a gift from the estate of Florence Strelkowski. We were also pleased to host
a special concert given in Grace Auditorium by Manhattan School of Music students
Victoria Sbarro and Evan Kory on October 16. “Playing for Parkinson’s” benefited
the Thomas Hartman Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, which funds several
of our neuroscience faculty as they investigate possible causes and cures for
Parkinson’s.
Breast Cancer Groups
An essential aspect to our very successful breast cancer research program is
the support we receive from local grassroots groups who provide direct research
support for our program, in addition to the wonderful services they provide
to the breast cancer community. This year, we were fortunate to receive support
from: the Breast Cancer Research Foundation; the Miracle Foundation; the Pierre
and Pamela Omidyar Fund; 1 in 9: The Long Island Breast Cancer Action Coalition;
Breast Cancer Help, Inc.; the Cold Spring Harbor Main Street Association; Dunkin
Brands; Find A Cure Today (F.A.C.T.); The Islip Breast Cancer Coalition; The
Long Island 2 Day Walk To Fight Breast Cancer, Inc.; Long Islanders Against
Breast Cancer (L.I.A.B.C.); the Manhasset Women's Coalition Against Breast
Cancer; Breast Cancer Awareness Day in memory of Elizabeth McFarland; the Waldbaum
Foundation; the Judi Shesh Memorial Foundation; and the West Islip Breast Cancer
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