Donate to research
By donating to UC Irvine’s clinical research efforts, you help bring new, state-of-the-art therapies and treatments for devastating diseases to patients in Orange County and beyond. Learn more about donating to our research entities below: the UCI Center for Clinical Research, the UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and the UCI Alpha Clinic.
Donate to the UCI Center for Clinical Research
The UCI Center for Clinical Research (CCR) at UCI is a premier local and national clinical research organization that provides lifesaving clinical trials by strengthening and accelerating the pathway of discovery from the laboratory bench to the patient’s bedside.
To enhance our ability to bring novel, state-of-the-art therapies for devastating diseases to patients in Orange County and the surrounding regions, we need your help. Your donation supports cutting-edge clinical trials that will bring better healthcare and quality of life to the community-at-large.
To make a donation or learn more about supporting CCR, please contact Joy Kliewer, Ph.D., Senior Director of Development, at joy.kliewer@uci.edu or 714-456-3949.
Or, mail a check, payable to “UCI Foundation,” with “The Center for Clinical Research” on the memo line, to:
UCI Health Advancement
ATTN: Joy Kliewer
3800 West Chapman Avenue, Suite 3300
Orange, CA 92868
Donate to the UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Help the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center fight cancer on all fronts. We treat more patients with cancer — and more complex cases — than any other healthcare organization in Southern California. We treat each case with a research-driven approach, resulting in the best possible care option available.
You can help us lead the way in innovative research, unparalleled expertise and advanced care options for our patients. Join us by supporting one of our top fundraising priorities: the Director’s Circle Annual Giving Society and the Anti-Cancer Challenge.
Director's Circle — Annual Giving Society
When you donate to the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, you support one of the largest early-phase clinical research programs in Southern California. You make it possible for patients to access promising research-driven trials and therapies for all types of cancer. If you’re passionate about supporting innovative research and leading-edge trials, donate at one of the annual membership levels and see the associated benefits:
$5,000 and up: Gold Circle Member
- All Silver Circle benefits
- VIP virtual meeting with cancer center director and key cancer center leadership
$4,999-$2,500: Silver Circle Member
- All Director’s Circle benefits
- Complimentary valet parking at the cancer center. Please contact Health Advancement to coordinate your visit.
- Invitation to the VIP virtual annual Chao Lecture
$2,499-$1,000: Director’s Circle Member
- All Friend of the Director benefits
- Invitation to the Anti-Cancer Challenge virtual celebration
- Recognition as a Director’s Circle Member on the cancer center’s website
$999-$500: Friend of the Director
- Regular updates from the cancer center director
- Recognition lapel pin
Make your Director's Circle donation today
Anti-Cancer Challenge
The UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge is a community movement to raise awareness and funds for cancer research at the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. When you ride, run, walk, volunteer or donate, you help find cures for a disease that touches us all.
All funds are directed toward promising pilot studies and early-phase clinical trials conducted by renowned physician-scientists.
For more information about the Anti-Cancer Challenge, contact Jennifer Sarrail, executive director, at jsarrail@uci.edu or 714-456-8553.
Donate to the UCI Alpha Clinic
Change what it means to face a serious illness and partner with the only California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)-funded stem cell clinic in Orange County: the UCI Alpha Clinic. As part of the UCI Bill and Sue Gross Stem Cell Research Center, we learn more every day about how neural cells repair themselves.
We need your support to move faster to help you, your family and loved ones, and patients in Orange County and beyond live healthier lives.
Our top doctor-scientists offer promising stem cell therapies to patients in clinical trials for serious diseases like retinitis pigmentosa (a blinding eye disease), stroke, traumatic brain injury, ALS, Alzheimer's disease and more.
Our center is close to unlocking the incredible potential of stem cell therapies for other conditions such as Huntington's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, newly diagnosed glioblastoma, critical limb ischemia, type 1 diabetes, spinal cord injury, ovarian cancer and more.
For more details about supporting the UCI Alpha Clinic, contact Amber Harness at aharness@uci.edu or 949-824-9021