Seattle BioMed invites you to make an investment in a world free from infectious disease. Your gift to the Breakthrough Fund provides crucial funding to help Seattle BioMed train and cultivate the best scientists in the world and spark research innovation that will deliver hope to millions.

Join Seattle BioMed in giving the gift of hope by making a meaningful contribution to scientific research. Your investment will:

• Train future scientists to think creatively, develop bold ideas and become tomorrow’s global health leaders who will make revolutionary scientific discoveries.
• Fund important “out-of-the-box” research projects that take novel approaches to better understanding HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB.
• Recruit and retain world-class scientists at Seattle BioMed who are building a network of research innovation like none other.

The journey to a world free from infectious disease begins with hope. Learn about individual journeys that led to Seattle BioMed:

Jill Scott, Seattle BioMed associate counsel, encourages people to get involved so global health issues are tackled from every angle.

“It takes an incredible body of people to bring about the global health change in infectious diseases that an organization like Seattle BioMed is looking to make. Any person, in any professional discipline, has a contribution to give, whether that be learning about Seattle BioMed and infectious diseases, attending events, making donations or volunteering. Those types of things are part of the larger effort that is going to make a difference in someone else’s life.”

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Dr. Shahin Shafiani, Seattle BioMed staff scientist in the Urdahl lab, works everyday toward his scientific paradise: A world free from the threat of infectious disease.

“A world free of infectious disease is what my colleagues and I dream of. It’s what we imagine every day because it’s our paradise. If we could rid the world of infectious disease, that would make a huge impact to the economy of a lot of countries in Africa and Asia whose people are spending so much of their little infrastructure on trying to combat disease."

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Dr. Boniface Mailu, Seattle BioMed postdoctoral scientist in the Gardner lab, suffered and survived several bouts of malaria by his second birthday in his native Mombasa, Kenya, and has dedicated his career to infectious disease research.

“My son had malaria when he was eight months old. My daughter had malaria when she was even younger. I remember looking at them -- the helplessness, how sick they got. For me, the scene just calls for more work from our scientists and our community. There is still a lot of work that needs to be done to stop malaria.”

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Dr. Marissa Vignali dedicates her career to educating Washington state’s youth about the importance of infectious disease research so they can be the next global health heroes of our time.

“A child dies of malaria every thirty-eight seconds. When you live in an endemic area, if you don’t die in the first five years of your life of severe malaria causes, you develop some kind of immunity. When my daughter turned five, I was really struck by the notion that a lot of parents don’t get to see that moment.”

Read more about Marissa.