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
Elena and Roger Matthews*
Dr. Svetlana Mojsov
Stanley S. Shuman in memory of
Sydney R. Shuman
Simons Foundation International
Lulu C. Wang
Laureate ($50,000+)
Marlene Hess
Rebecca A. John†
Julie Wilcox†
Visionary ($25,000+)
Debra Black
Caroline R. Curry
Cheryl Cohen Effron
Molly Ford
Diane K. Halvorsen
Joelle M. Kayden
Matt Levin*
Elena A. Matthews
Mary Penniman Moran
Robin Chemers Neustein
Pathfinder ($10,000+)
1919 Investment Counsel, LLC
Anonymous
Judith Roth Berkowitz
Emily Chen Carrera
Citi
Daniella Lipper Coules
Nancy Glickenhaus
Agnes Gund
Judith Hernstadt
Sandra J. Horbach
Monica and Brent Humphries*
Rebecca A. John
Nancy M. Kissinger
Lianne Lazetera
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.
Taffy Benjamin
Ludmila S. Bidwell
Jean D. Hamilton†
Jessica Hopfield, Ph.D.‘91
Phyllis (Patti) A. Klein
Elisabeth Lachmann
Sarah F. Leibowitz, Ph.D.
Teena L. Lerner, Ph.D.
Susan M. Lyne
Katharine S. Overlock
Nancy C. Paduano
Gail Hunt Reeke
Terry Sebastian*
Sara Lee Schupf
Paula Volent
Sue Ann Weinberg
Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation
Cynthia M. Whitehead
Investigator ($2,500+)
Frances Beatty Adler
Anonymous
Betsy S. Barbanell
Mary D. Brust, R.N.
Cynthia Young and George Eberstadt
Linda Fan
Susan C. Frunzi
Jean D. Hamilton
Amabel James
Jane Frank Katcher, M.D.
Richard and Deborah Lifton
Kathryn Matthews
The V & L Marx Foundation
Susan C. Rockefeller
Janet C. Ross
Merideth Schlesinger
Shelia Scott
Mary S. Sykes
Amoli Vad
Sharon Wee
Friend ($1,000+)
Kristin Allen
Anonymous (2)
Julie Boyer and Timothy O’Connor
Marilyn G. Breslow
Danielle Flug Capalino
Julie Cho, DMD
Paula K. Cleary
Abby Joseph Cohen
Lisa Colby-Jones
Drs. Barry and Bobbi Coller
Judy C. Cormier
Ellen Corwin
Jackie Drexel
Roz Feder, M.D., Ph.D.
Laura Flug
Geraldine Fox
Amandine Freidheim
Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D.
Lee White Galvis
Barbara A. Georgescu
Cynthia Bissett Germanotta
Meera Gilbert
Milly Glimcher
Judith Goldstein
Antoinette Guerrini-Maraldi
Kamila Islam
Jessie Jamar
Bonnie Johnson
Patricia Kemp
Lewis and Sharon Korman
Mary Lee S. Ledbetter, Ph.D. ’72
Carol A. LeWitt
Jan Maier
Elizabeth T. Marren
Meera Mayer
Margaret Moloney
Elizabeth P. Munson
Bettye M. Musham
Harriet Rabb
Sandra and Richard Rippe
Donna Rukin
Ann Sardini
Kristina Segesvary
Natalie Shawn
Maria Siff-Yang
Patricia Silverstein
Jure Skarabot
Carla H. Skodinski
Ann M. Spruill
Eliot Stewart
Elizabeth R. Varet
Karen Wagner
Hermine Warren
Anita Volz Wien
Marcia S. Wilson
Xiaokui Zhang, Ph.D.
Silvia Zoullas
Contributor ($500+)
Anonymous
R. Ellen Avellino
Phyllis Chernin
Susan Fisher
Helen Fairbank Goodkin
Ji Park Kwak
Claudette Mayer
Marcia A. McLean
Mary Ann Michelis, M.D.
Caitlin Pitt
Elizabeth M. Sherman
Leslie D. Toepfer
Patricia Widner
Christine Wopat
Donna Zilkha
Supporter (Up to $499)
Anonymous (2)
John C. Armitage
Carole Beller
Marilyn Budzanoski
Leigh Carleton
Elizabeth Chandler
Bryn Roberts Cohen
Barbara Colwell
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
Karen Lerman
Peggy MacDonald
Brigid Merriman
Catharine Napolitano
Anne S. Nordeman
Carolyn L. Patterson
Victoria Perla
Nancy J. Phillips
Ellen Prediger
Karla Radke
Stacy Rosenwaks
Nicholas Rudenstine
Henry Salmon
Barbara Scholl
Marylou Selo
Laurie M. Shahon
Sharon Spaight
Silda Spitzer
Annetta K. Weaver
Marina Whitman
Gifts as of May 14, 2025
†Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Women’s Entrepreneurship Fund
