Achieving a Common Goal

Creating new pathways to the understanding of disease; building a University-wide momentum for collaborative, breakthrough research; and introducing new disciplines in medical research to accelerate study and results -these are the ambitious goals of the Institute for Computational
Medicine. However, achieving them will require the generous support of visionary partners private, governmental, and corporate.

By giving to the ICM, you are contributing to a unique and critically important initiative at the forefront of medical and scientific research. To become involved with such an exceptional institute at its start could not be more exciting -or have more bearing on all of our lives.

What 's more, your gift to the ICM represents an entirely new and effective way of approaching philanthropy. Your gift achieves a "multiplier effect" in that it underwrites key researchers and studies across all of Johns Hopkins.

To support its facilities, people and research, you can choose to partner with the ICM in a number of ways.

Facilities

As the ICM 's new home, the Computational Sciences and Engineering (CSE)Building also serves to strengthen the Whiting School's commitment to multidisciplinary research and education. This remarkable building provides the opportunity for undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and other researchers from a variety of disciplines to work together under the same roof. To learn more about the exciting potential of the CSE Building, please visit its website at http://engineering.jhu.edu/~cse-building/.

Endowment

An endowment is a gift that is held in perpetuity and provides dependable resources for the future. A critically important form of giving, an endowment blends the donor 's vision with the needs of the Whiting School and the ICM. Over time, it provides a dependable revenue stream to reduce reliance on external funding sources and allow us to invest more consistently in our people, programs, and facilities.

In particular, endowed fellowships are an outstanding investment in the careers of future leaders in engineering and computational medicine. By establishing an endowed fellowship, you will have the satisfaction of preparing the way and launching the careers of men and women who will be leaders in tomorrow's world. The accomplishments of these professionals, as their careers unfold, is proof that your investment is well placed indeed.

Diagnosis Discovery Fund

This fund is designed to directly support research at the ICM toward the discovery of cures for disease. Non-endowed gifts to the Fund will be used by our research team to explore areas of promise and potential for dramatically improved disease diagnosis. Donors can invest in one of the three research thrusts of the ICM:

• Biological Systems Modeling, where computer models allow researchers to understand the mechanisms of disease and test potential treatments for their effectiveness.



• Computational Anatomy, where researchers use mathematical algorithms to analyze the structure of healthy and diseased tissue, with the goal of earlier diagnosis and treatment of disease.



• Bioinformatics, where scientists are developing powerful new mathematical and statistical tools to represent and manage biomedical data, as well as to discover such predictive features as biomarkers from this data.

We are seeking gifts of $10,000 and above for this fund, with Director 's Circle gifts at the $50,000 level. For more information contact the Whiting School Development office at 410 516-8723, wse-dar@jhu.edu.