# Martha Rivers Ingram

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## TL;DR

In 1999 the Ingram family made what Vanderbilt calls a transformational gift in honour of the late E. Bronson Ingram; the centre took the family's name and became Tennessee's leading cancer research centre.

## Summary

Martha Rivers Ingram (1935-2026) chaired Ingram Industries after the death of her husband E. Bronson Ingram in 1995 and became one of the largest donors in Vanderbilt University's history. Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center's history records that in 1999 Nashville's Ingram family made a transformational gift in honour of the late E. Bronson Ingram, philanthropist, businessman and civic leader; formally named the E. Bronson Ingram Cancer Center at Vanderbilt University, it quickly became known as the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. The centre is an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centre and the only one in Tennessee, with programmes in cancer genomics, immunotherapy and the health of rural and underserved populations across the mid-South.

## Fields

- Kind: Person
- Last checked: 2026-09-10
- Also known as: E. Bronson Ingram; Ingram family
- Tags: hero; donor
- Role: Businesswoman whose family's 1999 gift named Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in memory of E. Bronson Ingram
- Specialisms: Cancer centre building; Family philanthropy

## Sources

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Rivers_Ingram
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center: history: https://www.vicc.org/about/history

## Connected records

- institutions: [Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center](https://onco.cc/institutions/vanderbilt-ingram/)
- bottlenecks: [Funding follows fashion, not burden](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-funding-allocation/)

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