Minimum Amount: Consultation required

There are more than 124 highly qualified researchers who are currently members of the Hope Center. The diverse laboratories that make up the Hope Center represent scientists and physician-scientists on the Medical and Danforth campuses of Washington University.  In addition to the Principal Investigator of each laboratory, there are graduate students, postdocs, technicians, and others, more than 650 investigators in total. They represent many Washington University departments. The Hope Center knows no boundaries. It is a center without walls. Your support can be recognized in connection to the laboratory of one of our dedicated researchers.

Minimum Amount: Consultation required

The laser scanning confocal microscope provides three-dimensional, multicolor images of nerve cells in health and disease. The multiphoton microscope uses a highly specialized infrared laser to see cells within the living rodent brain or spinal cord. Such technological advances are essential to the success of the Hope Center, and your support can be earmarked to purchase specific pieces of equipment like these.

Minimum Amount: $500,000

Talent, both its acquisition and its retention, is essential to the success of the Hope Center. It is essential that we bring more and better ideas to this effort. We can only do this by effectively nurturing talented researchers and physicians. Some are discouraged by the complexity of our disorders. We are looking for the best and the brightest, and your support at this level will help us attract them.

Minimum Amount: $100,000

Such general research funds honor those for whom they are named and directly support work done by the Hope Center team.

Minimum Amount: $50,000

The Hope Center is organized around four core areas: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neuroimaging, Animal Model and Information/Outreach. Each core has its own state-of-the-art facilities and technical staff. Our approach is based on providing the enabling technologies and support systems (specialized equipment, human expertise, test animals, etc.) as well as the process for collaboration that will inspire researchers from a variety of scientific disciplines to bring their projects to the Hope Center, where those projects will be applied to the realm of neurological disorders.

Minimum Amount: $1,000 (Hope Society)

Hope Society members are disappointed that there are few effective therapies and no cures for the disorders studied at the Hope Center. They are motivated by a sense of urgency on behalf of persons battling right now for their lives. The Hope Society exists to be a catalyst for changing the way research for neurological disorders is conducted AND funded.