The Bass Society of Pediatric Scholars

With a pledge of $30 million in 2008, Anne and Robert Bass ignited support for pediatric education, training and research at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Their commitment was designated as a challenge match to raise awareness of the pressing need for funding in this area. Today, we celebrate the success of The Bass Society of Pediatric Scholars, a remarkable community of rising stars in children’s health.

Stanford University is world renowned for multidisciplinary research, and The Bass Society of Pediatric Scholars provides an invaluable forum for a community of scholars to share knowledge, discoveries, and training across different areas of expertise. The exchange of ideas among members of this esteemed society will help to develop a new cadre of pediatric subspecialists—physician-scientists whose work is incredibly important to the future of pediatric medicine.

The Bass Match

Thanks to the generosity of Anne T. and Robert M. Bass, a 1:2 challenge match is available to donors who endowed a fellowship or faculty scholar award*.  Every two dollars given earns one dollar of the match. Through the Bass Match, a donor gift of $1,333,000 for an endowed fellowship or faculty scholar earned an additional $667,000 in matching dollars, for a total gift of $2,000,000. This match continued through the end of 2013.

* The match was intended for donors who have not yet made a gift of $1 million or more.

Bass Match Donors:

  • Orlando and Kathryn Bravo
    Family Endowed Fellow/Faculty Scholar for Food Allergy and Immunology Research
  • Nancy & Steve J. Carell
    The Carell Family Endowed Faculty/Faculty Scholar for Food Allergy and Immunology Research
  • Gies Foundation
    The Gies Foundation Endowed Fellow/Faculty Scholar for Food Allergy and Immunology Research
  • Judi A. Rees
    Maggie Adalyn Otto Endowed Fellowship for Pediatric Epilepsy
  • Tad and Dianne Taube
    Taube Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Youth Addiction Initiative Fund, Taube Clinical Faculty Scholar in the Youth Addiction Initiative Fund, Taube Endowed Community Faculty Scholar in the Youth Addiction Initiative Fund, and Taube Research Faculty Scholar in the Youth Addiction Initiative Fund
  • Anonymous
  • Laurie Lacob
    Laurie Kraus Lacob Fellowship/Faculty Scholar Fund in Pediatric Translational Medicine
  • Sheri S. Brisson
    Sheri Sobrato Brisson Endowed Faculty Scholar Fund in Pediatric Neuropsychology
  • Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki
    Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang Fellowship/Faculty Scholar Fund in Pediatric Translational Medicine
  • S.D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation
    Bechtel Endowed Fellowship Fund in Pediatric Translational Medicine & Bechtel Faculty Scholar Fund in Pediatric Translational Medicine
  • Laure L. Woods
    Kastanis Family Faculty Scholar Fund for Translational Medicine
  • Anonymous
    Post-Doctoral Fellowship or Faculty Scholar Fund in the Stanford Autism Center at Packard Children’s Hospital