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Why give?

Scientific research enhances our fundamental understanding of the brain, drives innovation, and improves healthcare. However, the biomedical research enterprise is being threatened*** with budget cuts and funding restrictions that 1) limit scholars’ ability to discover medical breakthroughs that save lives and 2) put their academic careers at risk.

Please consider donating to the Liz’s Lab scientific research program. Your donation will support our team in advancing their experiments, working towards their milestones and contributing knowledge that could potentially lead to medical breakthroughs that change lives.

Every contribution, big or small, helps support Liz’s Lab members to purchase of equipment, acquire key reagents, and train the next generation of passionate researchers dedicated to discovery.

Together, we can make a lasting impact on the biomedical research enterprise, brain health, and the world. We sincerely hope you will join Liz’s Lab in this important pursuit.

*** See below articles for more info:

NIH Overall Budget Cuts

NIH Indirect Cost Reductions

NIH Firings and Restructuring

NIH Banning Federal Funding for Universities with DEI/Israel Boycotts

Increases in Taxes on University Endowments

Procedural Approaches to Dismantle Federal Research Funding Infrastructure

NIH Canceling Funded Grants Doing Corona Virus or Perceived DEI Work

Giving FAQs

  • Conducting research and training scholars is expensive so your donation to the lab will be put to good use. Donations will always be used to support costs directly associated with the research. This could include to:

    • acquire a critical supply needed to test our hypothesis, such as pipette tips or Petri dishes, or experimental test subjects.

    • buy a key scientific instrument needed to conduct the experiments, such as a centrifuge, or a mouse maze.

    • purchase specialized analysis software to help us generate the data.

    • support student participation in a workshop or course to acquire new scientific skills (Liz’s Lab is firmly committed to teaching and students conduct the majority of the work)

    • enable travel to conferences to present our work to other scientists or pay open access publication fees so that the public can access our results.

    • educate community members about the brain, neuroscience, and going to college to become a researcher (Liz’s Lab believe in community engagement)

  • Absolutely! We want you to be a partner in the research process with us. If you wish, you are welcome to select from the following donation categories:

    1 - Data Analysis & Dissemination

    2 - Equipment & Instrumentation

    3 - Community Neuroscience Education

    4 - Supplies & Reagents

    5 - Training & Trainee Development

    6 - Whatever is most needed right now

  • No amount is too small to help move our lab’s mission forward and we appreciate anything you are willing and able to contribute.

    To give you a sense of the cost of things in research, to purchase one standard mouse for an experiment costs about $50. A tube of antibody to help us measure levels of a certain protein in the brain can cost ~$500. A finely tuned pipette set costs $2,500. A fluorescence microscope costs nearly $18,000. The salary of a laboratory staff member starts at $35,000 per year.

  • You are our partner in the pursuit of excellent science and we want to show you how you have helped us. Some things we would like to do for you:

    When we spend your donation, we will send you a picture of us working with whatever you purchased for us.

    If you support buying an instrument, we will put your name on it for all who visit the lab to see.

    If your donation helps us purchase research subjects, we can name a mouse after you.

    If you support a trainee to travel to a workshop or conference, you will receive a handwritten thank you note along with a selfie of them at the event.

    No matter how you support us, we will be happy to list your name in the acknowledgments section of every paper we publish about results collected because of your help. We would also love to give you a special call out on our lab social media platforms. If you want to come for a visit, we would LOVE to host you. We are also happy to present you the data we have produced in part because of you.

    Whatever you are comfortable with we are happy to consider and we are open to suggestions within reason so feel free to tell us how you would like to be appreciated! 

  • If you are interested in donating to Liz’s Lab, please send us an email through the Connect page or you can email the Lab Leader, Dr. Liz directly at eenglerchiurazzi@tulane.edu. You should hear back from us within 48 hours.

  • Yes! Tulane is an educational institution and a 501c3 non-profit. We can provide you with the necessary documents at the time your donation is made.