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Judy Wilmot Linehan William B. Wilmot Thomas C. Wilmot, Sr.
The Wilmot Family
For more than 30 years the Wilmot family has been support will now establish the Wilmot Distinguished
dedicated to supporting cancer research and care Professorship in Cancer Genomics. Cancer genomics
for the Rochester community. What started with the is emerging as a crucial research specialty. Large-
vision of James P. Wilmot and his personal physician, scale genomic analyses are guiding cancer diagnosis
Dr. Jacob Goldstein—establishing a foundation to and treatment, focusing on a person’s genetic makeup
fund the Wilmot Fellowship Program to advance as well as the genomics of their specific cancer. The
cancer research—has blossomed into extraordinary Wilmot’s support will be monumental for the cancer
leadership, advocacy, and generosity that have genomics program, helping us understand the changes
helped transform the Wilmot Cancer Institute into that occur in cancer cells and develop new therapies
the region’s leading provider of cancer care and to advance through clinical trials, in order to provide
promising therapies. precision cancer care for patients.
There have been more than 100 Wilmot Fellows The Wilmot Distinguished Professorship in Cancer
making a global impact, as the young physicians Genomics will serve as a powerful recruitment and
and scientists have gone on to dedicate their lives to retention tool for the Wilmot Cancer Institute; having
cancer research and better treatments for patients at a new faculty member of established distinction in
institutions around the world. Many have remained cancer research and bioinformatics specialties, and
here in Rochester at the Wilmot Cancer Institute making the Wilmot name synonymous not only with
to provide the foundation for excellent cancer care regional excellence, but with national—and likely
for patients. international—excellence as well.
Mr. Wilmot’s children—James, William, Thomas and With this new gift, the Wilmot family continues to
Judy (and all of their children)—continue to carry help transform cancer care and research in Rochester
on their father’s legacy of expanding the frontiers and around the world and bring hope to future
of cancer research and treatment. Their generous generations of patients.
