W&S Partners in Discovery
Over the past 25 years, Women & Science Partners in Discovery donors have raised more than $50 million in support of talented women pursuing careers in the sciences at Rockefeller University. Supporters provide crucial funding for women graduate fellows and postdoctoral investigators, faculty recruitment, and other important resources for women scientists at the university.
In 2019, Women & Science established the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Women’s Entrepreneurship Fund (Kellen WEF), a new leading-edge program that to encourage more women to develop the translational and entrepreneurial potential of their research at the university. The Kellen WEF and the Dean’s Office host the annual Managing Science & Scientists Workshop for Early-Career Researchers at Rockefeller University. Taught by professors from Harvard Business School and Berkeley Haas School of Business, this three-day workshop provides management training for academic scientists.
2024–2025 W&S Donors
Centennial Laureate ($100,000+)
Katherine Farley
Denise and Michael Kellen
Stanley S. Shuman in memory of
Sydney R. Shuman
Lulu C. Wang
Laureate ($50,000+)
Marlene Hess
Rebecca A. John†
Elena and Roger Matthews*
Julie Wilcox†
Visionary ($25,000+)
Debra Black
Caroline R. Curry
Cheryl Cohen Effron
Molly Ford
Diane K. Halvorsen
Elena A. Matthews
Mary Penniman Moran
Robin Chemers Neustein
Pathfinder ($10,000+)
1919 Investment Counsel, LLC
Emily Chen Carrera
Citi
Daniella Lipper Coules
Nancy Glickenhaus
Agnes Gund
Jessica Hopfield, Ph.D.
Sandra J. Horbach
Brent Humphries
Rebecca A. John
Karen M. Levy
Evelyn G. Lipper, M.D.
Steve Martinez*
Virginia Pellicci, M.D.
Béatrice Philippe
Marnie S. Pillsbury
Jean and Douglas Renfield-Miller
Janet Prindle Seidler
Sandra Tamer
Pioneer ($5,000+)
Holly S. Andersen, M.D.
Jean D. Hamilton†
Lianne Lazetera
Sarah F. Leibowitz, Ph.D.
Teena L. Lerner, Ph.D.
Susan M. Lyne
Katharine S. Overlock
Nancy C. Paduano
Gail Hunt Reeke
Paula Volent
Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation
Investigator ($2,500+)
Frances Beatty Adler
Betsy S. Barbanell
Mary D. Brust, R.N.
Cynthia Young and George Eberstadt
Linda Fan
Susan C. Frunzi
Jean D. Hamilton
The V & L Marx Foundation
Susan C. Rockefeller
Janet C. Ross
Shelia Scott
Mary S. Sykes
Amoli Vad
Cynthia M. Whitehead
Friend ($1,000+)
Anonymous
Julie Boyer and Timothy O’Connor
Marilyn G. Breslow
Abby Joseph Cohen
Lisa Colby-Jones
Roz Feder, M.D., Ph.D.
Geraldine Fox
Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D.
Lee White Galvis
Barbara A. Georgescu
Antoinette Guerrini-Maraldi
Jessie Jamar
Lewis and Sharon Korman
Mary Lee S. Ledbetter, Ph.D. ’72
Carol A. LeWitt
Jan Maier
Elizabeth T. Marren
Margaret Moloney
Bettye M. Musham
Harriet Rabb
Sandra and Richard Rippe
Donna Rukin
Kristina Segesvary
Jure Skarabot
Carla H. Skodinski
Eliot Stewart
Elizabeth R. Varet
Karen Wagner
Hermine Warren
Sharon Wee
Marcia S. Wilson
Xiaokui Zhang, Ph.D.
Silvia Zoullas
Contributor ($500+)
Anonymous
R. Ellen Avellino
Phyllis Chernin
Susan Fisher
Judith Goldstein
Helen Fairbank Goodkin
Marcia A. McLean
Mary Ann Michelis, M.D.
Natalie Shawn
Elizabeth M. Sherman
Leslie D. Toepfer
Patricia Widner
Donna Zilkha
Supporter (Up to $499)
Anonymous (2)
John C. Armitage
Carole Beller
Marilyn Budzanoski
Bryn Roberts Cohen
Jane de Weerth
Paul Fehlner
Merrie Frankel
Thomas E. Gorrell
Kathleen Haines Gotschlich
Linda Gottlieb
Mary Lee Grisanti
Nancy J. Haneman
Matthew Hershenhorn
Bruce Krueger
Nazlie Latefi
Christina Leonard
Brigid Merriman
Catharine Napolitano
Anne S. Nordeman
Carolyn L. Patterson
Victoria Perla
Nancy J. Phillips
Ellen Prediger
Karla Radke
Henry Salmon
Ann Sardini
Barbara Scholl
Marylou Selo
Laurie M. Shahon
Sharon Spaight
Silda Spitzer
Annetta K. Weaver
Marina Whitman
Gifts as of March 25, 2025
†Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Women’s Entrepreneurship Fund
