Make a Gift to the Center for Bioethics | UNC Center for Bioethics

The Center for Bioethics provides a core facility for collaborative capacity-building in bioethics. With a proven track record of success, we deliver responses to complex bioethical matters. Support from donors helps us sustain and expand our work.

Thank you for a successful Tar Heal Tuesday!

Thanks to generous donors, we raised $4,220. That’s 5% more than our goal of $4,000.

Tar Heal Tuesday donations will help us support student opportunities from travel funds to practicums.

Which ethical issues matter most to you?

Bioethical issues occur in many places, including health care, public health, the environment, in our regard for animals, or in the development and implementation of clinical and biomedical research. They can come in the form of new questions related to innovation or they may be persistent issues with which society continues to grapple.

You may recognize them at the bedside in hospital care, in the communities you care about or in our larger society. We aim to address these concerns to cultivate the responsible conduct of health research, clinical care and public health practice at Carolina and beyond.

Stuart Rennie presenting at the 11th Annual ARESA Research
Ethics seminar held at the Vineyard Hotel in Newlands.

Eric M. Meslin, Ph.D presenting How Artificial Intelligence Might Save Bioethics (And it’s not how you think)

Rohit Jaswaney, Rimma Osipov and Anissa Berger poster presentation at the ICCEC-CES conference in Montreal.

How your gift makes a difference

With support from donors like you, we’ll continue to be a leader at local, state, national and international levels, responding to some of the most pressing issues in health care of our time.

Your gift makes all the difference — to our faculty, trainees, students, and larger community. Your gift helps us:

Support our outstanding faculty members. Their Research & Scholarship are central to our success.
Mentor the next generation of physicians and others committed to research and practices that improve patient care, public health and other bioethics areas through Engagement & Outreach.
Host and sponsor Events & Lectures. Our programs offer concepts and tools for learners, faculty members and community members. These tools can help them respond to the ethical issues they encounter in their professional and personal lives.

I. Glenn Cohen, JD the 2023 Merrimon Lecturer

Rami Major with her poster at ASHG 2024. — Rami Martina Major presented the poster “A stakeholder informed ethical framework for epigenetic editing” at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) annual meeting. The abstract, co-authored by Major, Arlene Davis and Jean Cadigan, got a Reviewer’s Choice Award at the meeting!

Three members of the Clinical Ethics Discussion Group showcased their research at the AOE Evening of Scholarship.

Making a gift

There are two ways to make a gift directly to our center. You can make gifts online using the button below. You can also make a gift by check and mail it to us.

Make a gift online

Make a gift

When you make a gift online, you may need to choose the fund.
Our fund is: Center for Bioethics Gift fund (305511).
You can review your gift before submitting to make sure it’s accurate.
You will get a confirmation once your gift is processed.

Make a gift by check

Please make your check out to “Center for Bioethics.”
Put the fund designation (Gift Fund # 305511) in the memo line.

Mail gifts by check to:

UNC Center for Bioethics
Attn Brandy Elsenrath
MacNider Hall, Room 333
Campus Box 7240
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7240

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the UNC Health Foundation meet the requirements of the Internal Revenue Service to qualify as a 501(c)(3), tax-exempt organization.