Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Introduction

The mission of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is to improve the quality of people's lives through grants supporting the performing arts, environmental conservation, medical research and the prevention of child maltreatment, and through preservation of the cultural and environmental legacy of Doris Duke's properties.

Established in 1996, the foundation supports four national grantmaking programs. It also supports three properties that were owned by Doris Duke in Hillsborough, New Jersey; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Newport, Rhode Island. The foundation is headquartered in New York and is governed by a board of 11 Trustees.

The DDCF's activities are guided by the will of Doris Duke, who endowed the foundation with financial assets that totaled approximately $1.5 billion as of December 31, 2009. The foundation regularly evaluates and modifies its allocation of resources from the endowment to support the programs and properties and to respond to fluctuations in portfolio returns.

Medical Research

Mission

The mission of the Medical Research Program is to support the prevention, treatment and cure of human disease.

The Medical Research Program strives to accomplish its mission through the following strategies:

• Clinical Research

This strategy supports competitive award programs that build the clinical research career ladder and expand clinical research frontiers to advance the translation of biomedical discoveries into applications that improve human health.

• African Health Research

This strategy supports implementation research and builds research capacity to improve health and strengthen regional health systems in sub-Saharan Africa. 

Clinical Research Program

Fellowships