MUSC Foundation

11/23/2025

Help unlock a $5,000 challenge gift for children’s cancer research when you give to MUSC Children’s Health by Dec. 31.

Donate any amount to any MUSC Children’s Health fund to help us meet our goal and 🔓 unlock the challenge gift.

Thank you to the McConnell family for making this joyful year-end opportunity possible!

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💝 Thank you!

11/22/2025

Look what’s on its way to mailboxes now! The fall 2025 edition of Inner Circle — our magazine celebrating donors who help change what’s possible through MUSC — is hot off the press. 📰

Our Possibility Circles recognize donors who make a sustained impact on MUSC’s mission through their ongoing support, including those who make future gifts through their estates. Inner Circle highlights how their generosity is changing what's possible for families and communities across South Carolina. ❤️

We hope you enjoy the stories we’ve put together to showcase how philanthropy is improving lives through the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC).

📪 If Inner Circle landed in your mailbox, which of our scholarship students is on your cover this year?

11/15/2025

We recently celebrated the generosity and vision of MUSC Legacy Society members with an evening at Cannon Green filled with conversation, fellowship and fine cuisine.

These donors have chosen to include the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in their estate or planned giving, and through their foresight, they are advancing health, discovery and innovation for generations to come. 🙌

11/07/2025

💙 Did you know MUSC College of Medicine students provide free health services to hundreds each year?

At the student-run CARES Clinic, future physicians gain hands-on experience while expanding access to care for neighbors who might otherwise go without.

Each month, CARES volunteers also deliver fresh produce to hundreds of families in St. Stephen — part of their commitment to community health.

The clinic is made possible by donor support, grants and events like their annual BBQ fundraiser. Your generosity directly helps students learn and families get the care they deserve.

👉 Learn more: MUSC CARES Medical Clinic. Link in comments.

11/04/2025

Incredible progress is being made in the fight against congenital heart defects (CHD). Seed funding from the Emerson Rose Heart Foundation helped launch early research on a heart valve that can grow with a child’s heart.

The Smith family started the foundation in memory of their daughter, Emerson Rose, who they lost to CHD in 2011. Dr. Minoo Kavarana, who cared for Emerson at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), is now leading the next phase of testing.

Emerson Rose’s life continues to inspire change and save others through her family’s philanthropy. Thank you, Smith family, for your generosity and for helping create real solutions for CHD patients and families. 💙

11/01/2025

🚴Today, the LOWVELO community rides for something bigger than miles — they ride for hope, discovery and a future free from cancer.

Every participant-raised dollar benefits lifesaving cancer research at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center, South Carolina’s only NCI-designated cancer center.

To every rider, volunteer and donor: thank you for helping change what’s possible in cancer care. 💙

10/30/2025

Thank you, Mac and Make-A-Wish South Carolina! ❤

An 18-year-old who, in 2024, received a heart transplant after docotrs discovered his was opperating at just 11 percent, is giving back to the community that sa

10/24/2025

When doctors diagnosed Sylvie Baele with leukemia, she turned to the same source that had helped her rebuild her life before: her bike.

Thanks to innovative care and cancer research at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center, Sylvie’s disease is now managed — and she’s back in the saddle, leading Second Chance Bikes and riding in LOWVELO to fund the next generation of cures. 🚲 🔬✨

“If I had had ALL 10 years ago, I would 100% be dead right now,” she says. “It’s because of cancer research that I am here.” 🙌 Link to Sylvie's story in comments.

10/21/2025

Partnerships like this reflect the commitment that drives the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) every day — improving health and transforming lives across South Carolina. 🫶
MUSC Children’s Health and Roper St. Francis Healthcare will soon open a new pediatric unit in West Ashley, bringing nationally recognized care closer to home for families in our growing region.

Big news for Lowcountry families!

MUSC Children’s Health and Roper St. Francis Healthcare are partnering to open a new 16-bed Children’s Unit at Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital in the new year.

This first-of-its-kind partnership for pediatric inpatient care in South Carolina will provide families with compassionate, specialized care close to home — featuring private rooms, a 1,000-square-foot playroom, and care from MUSC pediatric specialists and Roper St. Francis Healthcare’s expert nursing team.

Together, we’ll continue .

Learn more: https://tinyurl.com/3sdzsnxh

10/17/2025

What makes you, you? The way you think, the way you speak, the way you move.

At the Murray Center for Research in Parkinson’s Disease at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), donor-funded studies are unlocking new ways to restore movement and independence. 🙌

Donations to MUSC research help Parkinson’s patients and fuel bold studies to improve care and understanding of the disease.

10/15/2025

Marti’s Wish for GI Cancer Fund was established at the MUSC Foundation in 2016 by Mr. Harry Parnell in memory of his late wife, Marti. This fund supports critical research, education and outreach for GI cancers, with special consideration given to research focusing on signet ring cell carcinoma and H. pylori bacteria.

Sadly, Marti passed away 10 years ago today, on October 15th, 2015. Her last wish to her friend, Sunita Patel, and husband, Harry, was to donate time and money to pursue the education of primary care physicians and cancer experts to recognize Signet Ring Cell Cancer.

Harry not only holds his own personal fundraisers, but he also makes annual contributions to the fund through his procurement of rare collectible whiskeys that are auctioned at Hollings’ yearly signature food and wine event, Gourmet and Grapes. He was even honored for his outstanding fundraising efforts and dedication to supporting cancer research in 2023 with the Gourmet and Grapes “Courage in Cancer” award.

Most recently, he collaborated with Hollings’ administration to establish the Marti’s Wish Award, which presented two Hollings scientists $50,000 each for their research projects studying gastrointestinal cancers. Today especially, we celebrate the memory of Marti and all that her last wish and her husband Harry have done for Hollings and other patients. Thank you!

10/13/2025

At the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), philanthropy gives researchers the freedom to ask “what if?” and the support to find out. A $15,000 gift to test a new Parkinson’s therapy led to a $3.5 million national research effort that’s changing what’s possible for patients in South Carolina and beyond. 🤍

Donations to MUSC research help Parkinson’s patients and fuel bold studies to improve care and understanding of the disease.