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The UC San Diego Lifetime Legacy Award is granted only on the rarest occasions to exceptional campus visionaries.

T. Denny Sanford is a visionary and generous supporter of UC San Diego who seeks to fund research geared toward making discoveries to benefit populations worldwide.

In 2022, he gave the single largest gift in UC San Diego’s history — a pledge of $150 million — to establish the UC San Diego Stem Cell Institute, which has a key focus on leveraging space as a new frontier for stem cell science. The recent gift built upon a $100 million gift from Sanford in 2013 that helped establish UC San Diego as a leader in developing and delivering the therapeutic promise of human stem cells to treat, remedy or cure a vast array of conditions and diseases.

In 2019, he made a gift of another $100 million to establish the T. Denny Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion, focused on research into the neurological basis of compassion, with application toward developing empathy-focused training for future generations of medical professionals.

Sanford also is a consistent supporter of The Preuss School UC San Diego, a charter middle and high school on the UC San Diego campus for motivated, low-income students who strive to become the first in their families to graduate from college. He regularly contributes to the greatest needs at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and has also provided support to the Epstein Family Alzheimer’s Research Collaboration.

Sanford was an honorary co-chair for the Campaign for UC San Diego and was a recipient of the Chancellor’s Medal in 2014.