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The Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics is home to researchers, educators, and trainees working to answer fundamental questions in biology and improve human health. Private support helps fund innovative research, student and postdoctoral training, scientific programs, and opportunities that strengthen our research community. 

Your gift invests in people and ideas with the potential to transform our understanding of biology and improve lives. By supporting students, postdoctoral scholars, and faculty researchers, you help foster scientific innovation, collaboration, and discovery while preparing the next generation of leaders in biomedical research. 

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Online giving is easy and secure. Please select the fund that best reflects your interests and philanthropic goals. Every gift—large or small—helps us advance discovery, educate the next generation of scientists, and strengthen the future of biochemistry and biophysics.

Online giving to the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics is easy and secure. Please choose where you would most like your generous gift to be used:

BCBP Unrestricted Gift Fund (#305563):

This fund is used to support the research, educational and instructional mission of the department. Funds provide valuable support for our Department, permitting flexible, timely, and effective responses to the challenges of maintaining our teaching and research environment. It directly supports important initiatives such as our annual retreat with a wide-ranging impact on our faculty, trainees, staff, and greater community. Gifts of any amount are welcome.


BCBP Department Fund (#343655):

To provide support for the educational and training objectives of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics.  This includes financial support for students when they need assistance with unexpected and unavoidable emergency expenses.


The Elinor and J. Logan Irvin Graduate Fellowship (#308330):

Funds will be used but not limited to providing funding for educational expenses for Biochemistry & Biophysics graduate students, such as: stipend, travel to meetings, recruitment expenses, or graduate student sponsored seminars.


Dr. Mary Ellen Jones Biochemistry Graduate Student Education Fund (#343809):

This fund supports educational expenses for Biochemistry students, including stipends, travel to meetings, recruitment, or graduate sponsored seminars.


Faculty Lab Support

Support the innovative research happening in our faculty laboratories. To make a gift to a specific lab, please view our faculty page and click on the link to each investigator’s lab website for more information.

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Ways to Make a Gift

Always feel free to call the UNC Development Office’s Live Support Line: (919) 537-3818 (M-F | 8-5 EST) for help with giving.