At The Cancer Research Foundation's 50th Anniversary Celebration in 1997, Stanford Goldblatt announced the establishment of the Bernice Goldblatt Fellowship, a $1 million dollar gift from the Cancer Research Foundation to the University of Chicago. This permanent endowment provides annual income to be used to support a first year graduate student in the Biological Sciences Division who is a candidate for a Ph.D. to be issued by the Committee on Cancer Biology. Each year this student will be known as the Bernice Goldblatt Fellow.

Glenn D. Steele, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., then Dean of the University of Chicago Biological Sciences Divison said of the Goldblatt Fellowship: "With this gift the Goldblatt family continues its legacy of generosity and determination to find a cure for cancer. We are especially delighted to name the fellowship program for Bernice Goldblatt, who has been so supportive of our work. The endowment helps us address one of our highest priorities - attracting and supporting the best and brightest students."

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"The most significant science is a process of exploration and is definitely not for the faint-hearted. You have a few clues and a hunch that 'there is something out there', but most of the time you are definitely 'flying by the seat of your pants'. After all, there are no familiar landmarks in truly unexplored territory. Who will finance such a risky business? Certainly not the government and other large organizations. Such groups support the development of new areas only after an initial discovery has made it obvious to everyone that there is something to be gained. In my experience, the Cancer Research Foundation had been one of the only groups that has been willing to bear the risk of the all-important fist step in a new project. Specifically, the CRF was instrumental in nurturing our early efforts to create multimodality 3D images of brain structure and function. These methods are now in use in many brain research laboratories around the world."