The David Brudnoy Fund for AIDS Research
The David Brudnoy Fund for AIDS Research is part of an effort to raise $10 million in private and corporate support for basic and clinical AIDS studies at the MGH. Such funds are critical to giving Partners AIDS Research Center researchers the flexibility required to respond to new discoveries and quickly apply them to patient care.

While new AIDS treatment approaches, particularly combination therapies, are having encouraging success in helping people with AIDS live longer and stay in better health, the conquest of AIDS is far from complete. Although these new therapies are more promising than any used before, they are not effective for everyone. Drug resistance continues to be a problem, and the costs of these medications put them out of the reach of most of the world's AIDS patients.

At the Partners AIDS Research Center at the MGH and other leading research institutions, efforts to explore exciting new avenues of research are confounded by reductions in traditional sources of funding. Young investigators with innovative approaches find it particularly difficult to get the grants needed to pursue what may turn out to be revolutionary approaches to defeating HIV.

A Message from David Brudnoy

"Few people come to hospitals except in need - often dire need, which was the case with me. Nine days were lost from my life, as I lay unconscious at the Massachusetts General Hospital late in 1994. I was brought back from the brink, literally, of death by the hospital’s emergency and intensive care teams.

I had AIDS. I have AIDS and am alive today and coping because of the work of clinicians and researchers at this great hospital. Denial had prevented me from seeking treatment before I collapsed. The fear of death - which at the time appeared the inevitable end of a serious, AIDS-related disease- prevented many people from getting expert care early on. I’ve learned my lesson and want now to help others profit from that lesson. The latest developments in AIDS therapy have opened the possibility of converting AIDS from an invariably fatal disorder to a manageable chronic syndrome. Tens of thousands of patients, like me, are thriving and genuinely improving today because of newly available drugs. But only continued research by the finest, best trained, most committed scientists and physicians can further advance what has been done until now.

By establishing The David Brudnoy Fund for AIDS Research, I pledge to work, with the cooperation and contributions of thoughtful, generous people like you, to help this research continue and expand. The fund is my way of paying some tiny fraction of the debt of gratitude I owe to the MGH. What the researchers are doing here will surely help save countless people from AIDS.

Today we are seeing a light, dimly, at the end of that long, dismal tunnel of the AIDS epidemic. Only with funding can continued research bring that light into sharper focus. The task ahead is essential. The time is now."

To make a gift to The Brudnoy Fund for AIDS Research
Please make your check payable to: the Brudnoy Fund for AIDS Research and forward it to Massachusetts General Hospital, Development Office, 100 Charles River Plaza, Suite 600, Boston, MA 02114-2792.

How to Give Donations to the Partners AIDS Research Center

Checks should be made payable to the Partners AIDS Research Center, and will be added to the unrestricted fund unless otherwise noted.

Donations to the Partners AIDS Research Center may be:

1) Mailed directly to the Partners AIDS Research Center 
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2) sent to The MGH Development Office
* Please specify the donation is for the Partners AIDS Research Center
Massachusetts General Hospital
100 Charles River Plaza, Suite 600
Boston, MA 02114-2792

3 ) online through the website MGH website
* Please specify under OTHER that the donation is for the Partners AIDS Research Center

4) through the Development Office at the Brigham and Women's Hospital
* Please specify the donation is for the Partners AIDS Research Center
75 Francis Street
Boston, MA 02115
phone (617) 732-5008)

Planned Giving and Bequests
In addition, there are a number of other ways to make significant charitable gift to the PARC. You may want to consider making a "planned gift", such as remembering PARC in your will; establishing a charitable remainder trust or annuity, while receiving an income for your life and/or the life of your designated beneficiary; naming the PARC as a beneficiary on your retirement account or life insurance policy; or donating personal property, such as stocks, bonds, or real estate.

If you would like more information about ways to support the Partners AIDS Research Center, please call, write or email.